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March 2014 graphics

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Dotted line chart comparing White House and Congressional Budget Office real GDP growth projections from 2010 to 2024, measured as change from fourth quarter of previous year.

Charts 2014-03-06

Real GDP Growth Projections

From The Most Underreported Piece of Obama’s Budget by Andrew Flowers

Horizontal bar chart comparing daily minutes spent doing housework by men and women across 28 countries, with women consistently spending more time than men.

Charts 2014-03-07

Time Spent Doing Housework Daily — Men vs. Women by Country

From Internationally, Women Still Spend More Time Doing Chores by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing job openings change from a year earlier, seasonally adjusted in thousands, from 2011 to 2014.

Charts 2014-03-11

Job Openings, Change From a Year Earlier

From Slow And Steady Is Losing the Race by Ben Casselman

Bar chart showing seasonally adjusted monthly job openings from 2011 to 2014, rising from about 2.9 million to over 4 million.

Charts 2014-03-11

Monthly Job Openings

From Slow And Steady Is Losing the Race by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing smoothed net favorability ratings of Russia and Putin among Americans from 2001 to 2014, with Russia trending from positive to negative and Putin consistently declining.

Charts 2014-03-11

Americans' Views on Putin and Russia

From Americans Disliked Russia Even Before the Crisis in Ukraine by Harry Enten

Dual line charts comparing percent change in real estate and corporate stock assets of households after the 2001 recession and the 2007-09 recession, by quarter.

Charts 2014-03-13

Real Estate and Stocks Recovery

From Record Household Wealth Mostly Due to Gains Among the Rich by Andrew Flowers

Grouped horizontal bar chart showing estimated size in millions of dollars of illegal sex, drug, and gun economies in seven U.S. cities.

Charts 2014-03-14

Illegal Economies: Estimated Size of Each

From Sex, Drugs And Guns: America’s Underground Economies by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing Federal Reserve remittances to the U.S. Treasury from 2004 to 2013, rising sharply after 2008 to near $90 billion.

Charts 2014-03-14

Federal Reserve Remittances to U.S. Treasury

From Billions to Treasury Could Dry Up by Andrew Flowers

NOAA/ESRL color-coded map showing 500mb geopotential height composite anomaly over North America for December 2013 through February 2014 relative to 1981-2010 climatology.

Maps 2014-03-17

500mb Geopotential Height Composite Anomaly Dec 2013–Feb 2014

From This Winter Wasn’t the Coldest, But It Was One of the Most Miserable by Matt Lanza

Horizontal bar chart showing percent of normal winter snowfall for select U.S. cities from December 2013 to February 2014, with New York City highest at 258%.

Charts 2014-03-17

Percent of Normal Winter Snowfall

From This Winter Wasn’t the Coldest, But It Was One of the Most Miserable by Matt Lanza

Line chart showing annual snowfall in Philadelphia during each winter season from 1899-1900 to around 2010, with single-season totals in blue and a five-season rolling average in red.

Charts 2014-03-17

Snowfall in Philadelphia During Each Winter Season

From This Winter Wasn’t the Coldest, But It Was One of the Most Miserable by Matt Lanza

Bar chart comparing days with low temperatures below 15°F in a normal winter versus winter 2013-14 for five Northeast US cities, with historical records noted.

Charts 2014-03-17

The Frigid Northeast: Days with a low temperature below 15º F

From This Winter Wasn’t the Coldest, But It Was One of the Most Miserable by Matt Lanza

Dot plot comparing normal winter average temperatures to Winter 2013-14 averages for Miami, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, showing record warmth in southern US cities.

Charts 2014-03-17

Warm Southern Winter

From This Winter Wasn’t the Coldest, But It Was One of the Most Miserable by Matt Lanza

Side-by-side horizontal bar chart comparing per-minute step counts during an eight-minute jog versus eight minutes of Ultimate Frisbee play, tracked by Fitbit Force.

Charts 2014-03-17

Step Counts: Jogging vs. Ultimate Frisbee

From Tracking Health One Step (And Clap, And Wave, And Fist Pump) at a Time by Carl Bialik

Bar chart showing Fitbit step counts tallied for 50 reps of five activities: soft walking, typing, clapping, fist pumping, and waving.

Charts 2014-03-17

Step-Count Tests

From Tracking Health One Step (And Clap, And Wave, And Fist Pump) at a Time by Carl Bialik

Horizontal bar chart showing relationships in Shakespeare plays measured by lines exchanged between characters, with red bars for romantic pairs and blue for other pairs.

Charts 2014-03-17

Relationships in Shakespeare

From Parsing Is Such Sweet Sorrow by Emma Pierson

Line chart showing the percentage of Venezuelans below the national poverty line from 1976 to 2012, with a marker indicating when Chávez took office around 1999.

Charts 2014-03-17

% of Venezuelans below the national poverty line

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Line chart comparing annual inflation rates of Venezuela and Bolivia from 1997 to 2013, with annotations marking when Chávez and Morales took office.

Charts 2014-03-17

Annual inflation rate: Venezuela vs. Bolivia

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Bar chart showing average annual percent change in infant mortality rate from 1999 to 2012 for Latin American countries, with Venezuela highlighted in red.

Charts 2014-03-17

Average annual % change in infant mortality rate, 1999–2012

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Bar chart showing average annual GDP per capita growth from 1999 to 2012 for Latin American and Caribbean countries, with Venezuela highlighted in red.

Charts 2014-03-17

Average annual GDP per capita growth, 1999–2012

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Bar chart showing average annual growth rate of terms of trade from 1999 to 2012 for Latin American countries, with Venezuela highlighted in red as the highest at about 15%.

Charts 2014-03-17

Average annual growth rate of terms of trade, 1999–2012

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Bar chart showing average annual inflation from 1999 to 2012 for Latin American countries, with Venezuela highlighted in red at over 20%, far above all others.

Charts 2014-03-17

Average annual inflation, 1999–2012

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Line chart showing Venezuela's GDP per capita in constant 2005 USD from the late 1970s to around 2012, with a annotation marking when Chávez takes office around 1999.

Charts 2014-03-17

GDP per capita in Venezuela (constant 2005 USD)

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Line chart comparing government liquid foreign assets as a percentage of GDP for Venezuela and Bolivia from 1997 to 2013, with annotations for when Chávez and Morales took office.

Charts 2014-03-17

Government liquid foreign assets as % of GDP

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Bar chart showing the margin of reelection of presidential incumbents in percentage points for various Latin American countries and years, with Venezuela 2012 and 2006 highlighted in red.

Charts 2014-03-17

Margin of reelection of presidential incumbents (percentage points)

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Line chart showing the price of the Venezuelan oil basket in constant 2005 USD from the late 1970s to 2011, with a marker indicating when Chávez takes office around 1999.

Charts 2014-03-17

Price of Venezuelan oil basket, constant 2005 USD

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Line chart comparing the price of exports relative to imports for Venezuela and Bolivia from 1985 to 2012, with annotations marking when Chávez and Morales took office.

Charts 2014-03-17

Price of exports relative to imports: Venezuela vs Bolivia

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Line chart comparing public external debt as a percentage of GDP for Venezuela and Bolivia from 1997 to 2012, with annotations marking when Chávez and Morales took office.

Charts 2014-03-17

Public external debt as % of GDP

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Line chart comparing Venezuela and Bolivia public sector balance as a percentage of GDP from 1998 to 2013, with annotations marking when Chávez and Morales took office.

Charts 2014-03-17

Public sector balance as % of GDP

From Why Only Half of Venezuelans Are in the Streets by Dorothy Kronick

Line chart showing the conditional correlation between party votes in presidential and gubernatorial elections from 1932 to 2012 in 29 states outside the South, with uncertainty band.

Charts 2014-03-17

Presidential and Gubernatorial Elections

From All Politics Is Presidential by Dan Hopkins

Line chart showing the conditional correlation between presidential and gubernatorial party votes in midterm years across 32 non-Southern states from 1930 to 2010.

Charts 2014-03-17

Presidential and Gubernatorial Elections: Conditional Correlation 1930–2010

From All Politics Is Presidential by Dan Hopkins

Line chart showing relative frequency of Google searches for 'obama' and 'christie' in New Jersey from 2008 to 2013, with Obama peaking near 100 in early 2009.

Charts 2014-03-17

Searches for Obama and Christie in New Jersey

From All Politics Is Presidential by Dan Hopkins

Bubble chart comparing FiveThirtyEight's old vs new content coverage across Politics, Economics, Science, Life, and Sports categories using proportional colored circles.

Charts 2014-03-17

FiveThirtyEight, Then and Now

From What the Fox Knows by Nate Silver

Heat map of the New York City metro area showing geographic density clusters with red and orange hotspots concentrated in Manhattan, the Bronx, and parts of Queens.

Maps 2014-03-17

NYC Metro Area Heat Map

From The Quest to Count City-Dwelling Rats by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing NHL average goalie save percentage rising from about 0.872 in 1985 to 0.913 in 2014, with a red trend line overlay.

Charts 2014-03-17

Save Percentage: NHL Average, 1984-2014

From Why Gretzky Had It Easy by Neil Paine

Horizontal bar chart showing number of Twitter suggestions for FiveThirtyEight economics story topics, with Inequality/Stagnation receiving the most suggestions (~31).

Charts 2014-03-17

Twitter, What Should We Write About? Number of suggestions for economics story topics

From Poverty, Policy And Pot by Ben Casselman

Line chart comparing cumulative NBA championships won by Phil Jackson versus the rest of the NBA since 1990, showing Jackson with 11 titles and the rest surpassing him around 2012.

Charts 2014-03-18

Phil Jackson vs. Rest of NBA: Championships Won Since 1990

From Advice For Phil Jackson: Hire Phil Jackson by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing the share of workers supporting themselves while earning less than $10.10 an hour, adjusted for inflation, from 1990 to around 2013.

Charts 2014-03-18

Share of Workers Supporting Themselves

From When Living Wage Is Minimum Wage by Ben Casselman

Horizontal bar chart showing the percentage of minimum-wage workers by household income bracket, ranging from under $15,000 to over $100,000.

Charts 2014-03-18

Minimum-Wage Workers by Household Income

From Typical Minimum-Wage Earners Aren’t Poor, But They’re Not Quite Middle Class by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing global disaster losses in 2013 dollars from 1990 to around 2013, with a red trend line indicating an upward trend from about $100b to $180b.

Charts 2014-03-19

Global Disaster Losses

From Disasters Cost More Than Ever — But Not Because of Climate Change by Roger Pielke Jr

Line chart showing global disaster losses as a proportion of global GDP from 1990 to about 2013, with a flat red trend line around 0.3%.

Charts 2014-03-19

Global Disaster Losses — Proportion of Global GDP

From Disasters Cost More Than Ever — But Not Because of Climate Change by Roger Pielke Jr

Line chart comparing actual U.S. GDP versus CBO potential GDP adjusted for inflation from 2006 to 2013, showing actual GDP falling well below potential after the 2008-2009 recession.

Charts 2014-03-19

Actual vs. Potential GDP

From The Key Question For Yellen: Is This Economy As Good As It Gets? by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing overall PCE inflation and core PCE inflation year-over-year percent change from 2006 to 2014, with the Fed's 2% inflation target marked.

Charts 2014-03-19

PCE Inflation: Year-over-year percent change

From The Key Question For Yellen: Is This Economy As Good As It Gets? by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing potential GDP year-over-year percent change adjusted for inflation from 1950 to the mid-2020s, with a dashed projected line after around 2015 showing a long-term decline from above 4% to about 2%.

Charts 2014-03-19

Potential GDP: Year-over-year percent change, adjusted for inflation

From The Key Question For Yellen: Is This Economy As Good As It Gets? by Andrew Flowers

Line chart comparing actual U.S. population growth from 1820 to 2000s against an estimated population had no Irish ever immigrated, showing a significant gap by the modern era.

Charts 2014-03-19

America Without the Irish

From An America Without Irish Immigrants by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot with trend line showing total WAR in first 7 seasons vs. rank in Baseball America's Top 100 prospects list, with higher-ranked players producing more WAR.

Charts 2014-03-19

WAR vs. Rank in Baseball America's Top 100

From What to Expect From Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospects by Neil Paine

Line chart showing current account balances as a percent of GDP for China and the U.S. from 2005 to 2013, with China declining from a peak and the U.S. remaining negative.

Charts 2014-03-19

Current Account Balances*

From U.S. and Chinese Current Accounts Converging by Andrew Flowers

Scatter plot comparing ESPN Tournament Challenge participants' Final Four picks against FiveThirtyEight's odds, with Villanova labeled as an outlier below the trend line.

Charts 2014-03-19

Consensus on Final Four

From Don’t Sleep on Villanova by Nate Silver

Scatter plot comparing spring training wOBA to regular season wOBA for qualified MLB players from 2006 to 2013, with a red trend line showing a slight positive correlation.

Charts 2014-03-21

Regular Season vs. Spring Training wOBA

From When Spring Training Matters by Neil Paine

Line chart showing the share of unemployed people finding jobs each month from 2007 to 2014, broken down by duration of unemployment: less than six months, six months to a year, and more than a year.

Charts 2014-03-21

Share of the Unemployed Finding Jobs Each Month

From Out of Work, Out of Luck by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing voluntary quits as a share of total employment from 2001 to 2014, peaking around 2.6% in 2001 and dropping to lows near 1.3% around 2009-2010.

Charts 2014-03-21

Voluntary Quits As a Share of Total Employment

From Want a Raise? Quit Your Job by Ben Casselman

Two bar charts with trend lines showing normalised disaster losses in billion USD (top) and sum of APLRs (bottom) from 1980 to 2010 with regression statistics.

Charts 2014-03-21

Normalised Losses and Sum of APLRs 1980–2010

From Following Up on Disasters And Climate Change by Roger Pielke Jr

Table showing polling data on Hillary Clinton across Democrats, Republicans, and Independents for three questions about qualifications, performance, and favorability.

Tables 2014-03-21

Clinton Polling: Qualified, Performance, Favorable by Party

From Is Hillary Clinton Qualified to Be President? A New Poll is Easy to Misread by Nate Silver

Table showing 2014 U.S. Senate race win probabilities for Democrat and Republican candidates by state, with projected seat totals at bottom.

Tables 2014-03-23

2014 Senate Race Win Probabilities by State

From FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: GOP Is Slight Favorite in Race for Senate Control by Nate Silver

Line chart showing the percentage of WAR produced by MLB players age 25 or under from 1976 to 2013, with a notable dip to about 13% around 1996.

Charts 2014-03-24

Young Talent in Major League Baseball

From The Return of MLB’s Youth by Neil Paine

Bubble scatter plot showing NWSL players by years out of college versus years of full national team experience, with bubble size representing number of players.

Charts 2014-03-24

A Fledgling National Women's Soccer League

From Low Pay Limits Player Experience in National Women’s Soccer League by Allison McCann

Yellow-tinted editorial graphic showing a hand holding a marijuana cigarette with large white text reading $20 per ounce.

Other 2014-03-24

$20 Per Ounce — Marijuana Price Infographic

From The Fastest Rapper in the Game by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart titled Rhyme Time showing words per minute for rap artists, with Twista leading at 280 and Dalima last at 63.

Charts 2014-03-24

Rhyme Time: Rap Artists' Words Per Minute

From The Fastest Rapper in the Game by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing rap word frequency of 'cash' and 'girls' from 1988 to 2013, with 'girls' starting high around 0.08% and declining, while 'cash' rises from 0.02%.

Charts 2014-03-24

cash, girls — Rap Word Frequency Over Time

From The Fastest Rapper in the Game by Mona Chalabi

Table showing NCAA tournament teams' championship probabilities at the start of the tournament, as of Monday 3/24, and the net change for 16 remaining teams.

Tables 2014-03-24

NCAA Tournament Championship Odds: Start vs. As of Monday 3/24

From The Gators Bite Back by Nate Silver

Horizontal bar chart comparing survival rates of marriages and businesses at 5, 10, and 15 years, showing marriages outlast businesses at all intervals.

Charts 2014-03-24

Survival Rates: Percentage of marriages and businesses still intact

From Which Last Longer in America: Companies or Marriages? by Mona Chalabi

Table showing standard occupation classifications with Frey-Osborne automation probability, total employment, and hourly wage at 25th percentile for 13 jobs at high risk of automation.

Tables 2014-03-25

Jobs Most at Risk of Automation: Frey-Osborne Probability, Employment, and Wages

From The Shift From Low-Wage Worker to Robot Worker by Andrew Flowers

Table showing the top 10 largest US occupations by total employment with median and 25th-percentile hourly wages for each standard occupation classification.

Tables 2014-03-25

Largest Occupations by Employment: Total Employment and Hourly Wages

From The Shift From Low-Wage Worker to Robot Worker by Andrew Flowers

Horizontal stacked bar chart showing irreplaceability vs replaceability percentages for five NBA box score stats: assists, points, rebounds, blocks, and steals.

Charts 2014-03-25

Irreplaceability of Box Score Stats

From The Hidden Value of the NBA Steal by Benjamin Morris

Table showing Minnesota Timberwolves game stats split by whether Kevin Love, Ricky Rubio, both, or neither played, including games, wins, win percentage, and margin of victory.

Tables 2014-03-25

Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio Games, Wins, Win%, and MOV

From The Hidden Value of the NBA Steal by Benjamin Morris

Horizontal bar chart showing the predictive ability of NBA box score stats relative to points per game, with steals highest at 9.1 and rebounds lowest at 1.7.

Charts 2014-03-25

Predictive Ability of Box Score Stats

From The Hidden Value of the NBA Steal by Benjamin Morris

Table showing Jan.-March average, Oct. average, and change in presidential approval ratings by election year from 1938 to 2010.

Tables 2014-03-25

Presidential Approval Ratings by Election Year: Jan.-March vs. Oct. Average

From History Suggests It Might Not Get Better For Democrats by Harry Enten

Line chart showing the U.S. labor force participation rate from 2000 to 2013, comparing actual data with a demographic model and the December 2007 level.

Charts 2014-03-26

Labor Force Participation Rate

From Missing: Up To 4 Million Workers by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot with trend line showing primary vs. general election performance, plotting incumbent-party general election margin against difference between incumbent and challenging party primary margins for elections 1976-2012.

Charts 2014-03-26

Primary vs. General Election Performance

From Clinton Is Polling Like an Incumbent, And That Could Help Her in 2016 by Harry Enten

Line chart showing the seasonally adjusted U.S. labor force participation rate from 1950 to the mid-2010s, peaking around 2000 and declining sharply afterward.

Charts 2014-03-26

Labor Force Participation Rate

From Labor Force Participation Doesn’t Mean What It Used to by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the seasonally adjusted U.S. unemployment rate from 1948 to around 2014, with peaks near 10% in the early 1980s and 2010.

Charts 2014-03-26

Unemployment Rate (Seasonally Adjusted)

From Labor Force Participation Doesn’t Mean What It Used to by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot with trend line showing New York's baseball preferences as percentage of Yankees fans minus Mets fans by years since the Mets made the playoffs, with R-squared of 0.66.

Charts 2014-03-26

New York's Baseball Preferences

From Yankees vs. Mets: The Battle For New York’s Heart by Harry Enten

Bar chart showing unemployment history and living situation of American 27-year-olds by education level, comparing shares who are married, cohabiting, or raising a child.

Charts 2014-03-26

American 27-year-olds: Unemployment history and living situation, by education

From Born in the Early ’80s: Where Are They Now? by Ben Casselman

Paired horizontal bar chart showing the percentage of young adults aged 20-24 in Europe and 18-24 in the US living with parents, split by men and women across 33 countries.

Charts 2014-03-27

Percentage of Young Adults Living With Parents

From Men Are More Likely to Live With Their Folks by Mona Chalabi

Table showing unemployment rate (2012), population (2013), and domestic migration (2013) for 18 U.S. metro areas with high unemployment.

Tables 2014-03-27

Metro Areas: Unemployment, Population, and Domestic Migration

From Residents of Struggling Cities Opt to Skip Town by Ben Casselman

Table showing actual win percentage, 95% confidence intervals, games played, and favorites won across probability bins from 50% to 99.9%.

Tables 2014-03-27

Favorite Win % by Probability Bin with Confidence Intervals

From The NCAA Bracket: Checking Our Work by Nate Silver

Horizontal dot-and-range chart showing FiveThirtyEight's predicted win probabilities versus actual win percentages across five bins, with 95% confidence intervals.

Charts 2014-03-27

Model Performance: FiveThirtyEight's Probabilities vs. Actual Win Percentages

From The NCAA Bracket: Checking Our Work by Nate Silver

Line chart showing the Philadelphia 76ers' performance in their last five games relative to league average in points per game, from December 2013 through March 2014.

Charts 2014-03-27

Sixers' Status

From Even If They Don’t Win Tonight, the 76ers Are Getting Better by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing the probability that the Philadelphia Sixers' losing streak reaches x number of games, declining from ~95% at 26 games to ~13% at 36 games.

Charts 2014-03-27

Streak Enders: Probability the Sixers' Losing Streak Reaches X Games

From Even If They Don’t Win Tonight, the 76ers Are Getting Better by Carl Bialik

Slope chart showing declining teen sexual activity from two surveys: Youth Risk Behavior Survey (1991-2011) and National Survey of Family Growth (1988-2010).

Charts 2014-03-27

Declining Teen Sexual Activity

From Are American Teenagers Getting More Promiscuous? by Mona Chalabi

Table of MLB players showing team, position, age in 2009, WAR for 2007-2009, and odds to play in 2014, listing 20 players from Henry Blanco to David Ortiz.

Tables 2014-03-27

MLB Players Odds to Play in 2014 with WAR Statistics

From Quantifying the ‘That Guy Is Still in the Major Leagues?’ Phenomenon by Neil Paine

Line chart showing the probability of still being a Major League Baseball player in 5 years, by age, for a player who peaks as an All-Star at age 27.

Charts 2014-03-27

Probability of Still Being a Major Leaguer in 5 Years

From Quantifying the ‘That Guy Is Still in the Major Leagues?’ Phenomenon by Neil Paine

Horizontal bar chart showing average GDP revisions as absolute change: first revision 0.54%, second revision 0.24, and historical revisions 1.46.

Charts 2014-03-27

Average GDP Revisions

From The Messy Truth Behind GDP Data by Andrew Flowers

Small multiples line chart showing obesity rates by age group from 1999-2000 to 2009-10, with red lines highlighting groups where increase was statistically significant only by standard test.

Charts 2014-03-28

Obesity Rates By Age Group

From Reports of a Drop in Childhood Obesity Are Overblown by Emily Oster

Horizontal bar chart showing 2012 estimated injuries by product in thousands, with bicycles and accessories leading at 557,000 injuries.

Charts 2014-03-28

Injuries by Product

From ‘WhatsAppitis’ And Other Modern Injuries by Mona Chalabi

Table showing NCAA tournament teams with their year, seed, expected seed, next result, and how far they advanced, including Clemson, Iowa, Purdue, UCLA, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Tables 2014-03-28

NCAA Tournament Teams: Seed vs. Expected Seed Results

From Tennessee’s Strange Path to Sweet 16 Suggests It’s a Big Threat to Michigan by Carl Bialik

Line chart comparing percent change in MLB franchise value versus the S&P 500 index since 1990, showing MLB outpacing the S&P 500 by mid-2010s.

Charts 2014-03-28

MLB Franchise Value vs. S&P 500

From Cabrera’s Millions And Baseball’s Billions by Nate Silver

Bar chart showing the number of U.S. billionaires from 1990 to around 2014, rising from about 90 to nearly 490, with a gap noting incomplete data in the late 1990s.

Charts 2014-03-28

Number of U.S. Billionaires

From Cabrera’s Millions And Baseball’s Billions by Nate Silver

Bar chart showing the probability of a baseball manager being retained by the same team decreasing from about 77% after 1 season to about 20% after 5 seasons.

Charts 2014-03-30

Probability of Managerial Retention by Same Team

From Most Managers Are Headed to the Hall of Mediocrity by Neil Paine

Paired horizontal bar chart comparing the percentage of dreams in which five emotions are experienced by men and women, from FiveThirtyEight.

Charts 2014-03-31

Dreamy Numbers: Percentage of dreams in which emotions are experienced

From Turning Dreams Into Data by Mona Chalabi

Table showing NCAA tournament teams' performance versus FiveThirtyEight point spread, listing game-by-game margins and averages for Florida, Kentucky, Connecticut, and Wisconsin.

Tables 2014-03-31

Performance vs. FiveThirtyEight Point Spread

From The Most Impressive Run to the Final Four (And It’s Not Kentucky’s) by Nate Silver

Horizontal bar chart showing how women reported meeting their husbands, with 'Through friends' at 36.3% being the most common method and 'Internet' at 3.6% the least.

Charts 2014-03-31

How I Met Your Father

From Here’s How He Met Her Mother by Walt Hickey

Horizontal bar chart showing how men reported meeting their wives, with Through friends leading at 36.8% and Blind date lowest at 4.3%.

Charts 2014-03-31

How I Met Your Mother: How men reported meeting their wives

From Here’s How He Met Her Mother by Walt Hickey