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August 2014 graphics

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Music chart table showing current and highest positions for top 10 songs, including Fancy by Iggy Azalea and Problem by Ariana Grande.

Tables 2014-08-01

Top 10 Songs Current vs. Highest Chart Positions

From What’s The Song Of The Summer? by Walt Hickey

Top 10 music rankings table comparing Radio Plays, Spotify Streams (U.S.), and Nielsen Downloads across three columns with song titles and artists.

Tables 2014-08-01

Top 10 Songs by Radio Plays, Spotify Streams, and Nielsen Downloads

From What’s The Song Of The Summer? by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted U.S. job growth from a year earlier, rising from near zero in 2010 to about 2.6 million by late 2014.

Charts 2014-08-01

Job Growth From A Year Earlier

From The Job Market’s Steady As It Grows by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the percentage of unemployed people who stopped looking for work versus those who found a job one month later, from 2008 to 2014, seasonally adjusted.

Charts 2014-08-01

What The Unemployed Are Doing, One Month Later

From The Job Market’s Steady As It Grows by Ben Casselman

$Grouped bar chart showing fractures diagnosed per 10,000 people by age group and sex in 2009-10, with females far exceeding males at age 85+.$

Charts 2014-08-01

Breaking Bad: Fractures diagnosed per 10,000 people, 2009-10

From Dear Mona, How Many Kids Break A Bone? by Mona Chalabi

$Horizontal bar chart showing fracture diagnoses by body part in 2010, with top of the femur leading at 336k cases, from FiveThirtyEight.$

Charts 2014-08-01

Breaking News: Fracture Diagnoses in 2010

From Dear Mona, How Many Kids Break A Bone? by Mona Chalabi

Bubble scatter chart showing payroll difference vs league standing improvement for MLB players traded in July 1996-2013, with Jon Lester highlighted and quadrant totals labeled.

Charts 2014-08-01

Where Do Players Go At The Deadline?

From That Weird Jon Lester Trade Wasn’t That Weird by Benjamin Morris

Yellow-tinted close-up photo of a fluffy dog with tongue out, overlaid with the price $2,500 in large white text.

Other 2014-08-02

$2,500 Dog Price Infographic

From Pacers And George Still Have Plenty To Play For by Nate Silver

Cropped line chart showing three declining trend lines, one red and two gray, over time with a shaded background region.

Charts 2014-08-02

Declining Trend Lines Chart (Cropped)

From Pacers And George Still Have Plenty To Play For by Nate Silver

Table showing Indiana Pacers players with minutes per game, net points per 100 possessions, and allocated wins statistics.

Tables 2014-08-02

Indiana Pacers Player Stats: Net Points Per 100 Possessions and Allocated Wins

From Pacers And George Still Have Plenty To Play For by Nate Silver

Table showing Indiana Pacers players with minutes per game, net points per 100 possessions, and allocated wins statistics.

Tables 2014-08-02

Indiana Pacers Player Stats: Net Points Per 100 Possessions and Allocated Wins

From Pacers And George Still Have Plenty To Play For by Nate Silver

US map showing whether each state has more cats or more dogs, with dark green for cat-heavy states and dark purple for dog-heavy states.

Maps 2014-08-03

Dog states, cat states

From Ctrl + ← Lacrosse Bros, Cats And The Tea Party by Mona Chalabi

A collage of nine images from FiveThirtyEight including photos, charts, a map, and an infographic panel mixed together in a 3x3 grid.

Other 2014-08-03

FiveThirtyEight Mixed Content Collage

From Ctrl + ← Lacrosse Bros, Cats And The Tea Party by Mona Chalabi

Dot plot showing conservatism scores for US cities with more than 250,000 people in 2014, ranging from Mesa AZ as most conservative to El Paso TX.

Charts 2014-08-03

Policy Preferences of Mass Public — Cities with more than 250,000 people (2014)

From Ctrl + ← Lacrosse Bros, Cats And The Tea Party by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing quarterly change in earnings from previous year for average weekly earnings and employment cost index from 2008 to 2014.

Charts 2014-08-04

Change In Earnings From Previous Year

From Inflation Isn’t Rising Yet, But The Fed Is Watching Closely by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing Core CPI and Core PCE inflation rates excluding food and energy prices from 2010 to 2014, with the Fed's 2% inflation target marked as a dotted line.

Charts 2014-08-04

Core Inflation Rates

From Inflation Isn’t Rising Yet, But The Fed Is Watching Closely by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing projected five-year inflation expectations based on Treasury markets from 2013 to 2014, ranging roughly between 2.2% and 3.0%.

Charts 2014-08-04

Inflation Expectations

From Inflation Isn’t Rising Yet, But The Fed Is Watching Closely by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Bar chart showing seasonally adjusted jobs added per month from 2013 to 2014, with a red line indicating the six-month average, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Charts 2014-08-04

Jobs Added Per Month

From Inflation Isn’t Rising Yet, But The Fed Is Watching Closely by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Table of NFL wide receivers ranked by career true receiving yards and career WOWY metric, with Hall of Famers highlighted in gray.

Tables 2014-08-04

NFL Wide Receivers: Career True Rec Yds and Career WOWY

From The Football Hall Of Fame Has A Receiver Problem by Neil Paine

Table comparing Raw Receiving Yards and True Receiving Yards across three adjustment types: No Adjustment, Initial Adjustment, and Final Adjustment.

Tables 2014-08-04

Raw vs. True Receiving Yards by Adjustment Type

From The Football Hall Of Fame Has A Receiver Problem by Neil Paine

FiveThirtyEight table showing each U.S. Senate race's chance of winning for Democrats and Republicans, with projected New Senate seat totals of 49.1 Democrat and 50.9 Republican.

Tables 2014-08-04

Senate Race Chances of Winning: Democrat vs. Republican by State

From Republicans Remain Slightly Favored To Take Control Of The Senate by Nate Silver

Line chart showing the decline of New York City basketball from 1977 to 2013, tracking percentage of total NBA wins above replacement by players born in NYC and those who went to high school in NYC.

Charts 2014-08-04

The Decline Of New York City Basketball

From The Decline Of New York City As An NBA Talent Generator by Neil Paine

Line chart showing the percentage of female scientists and papers written by women in the arXiv data set from 1991 to around 2013, both rising from about 7% to 14-16%.

Charts 2014-08-05

Female Scientists And Authorships Since 1991

From In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last by Emma Pierson

Dot plot showing how many more papers male scientists author on average across physics, math, astrophysics, and computer science subfields from the arXiv dataset.

Charts 2014-08-05

How Many More Papers Does A Male Scientist Author?

From In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last by Emma Pierson

Dot plot showing how much more or less likely a female scientist is to be first or last author across physics, math, and computer science fields in the arXiv dataset.

Charts 2014-08-05

How Much More Likely Is A Female Scientist To Be First Or Last Author?

From In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last by Emma Pierson

Scatter plot showing incumbent vote percentage vs. anti-immigration-reform grade (F to A) in GOP Senate primaries, sourced from NumbersUSA.

Charts 2014-08-05

Immigration And GOP Primaries For The Senate

From We’re More Likely To See A Senator Ousted In Tennessee Than In Kansas by Harry Enten

Stata regression output table for a model predicting primary_vote using obama_vote, dwn_1, and dwn_2, showing ANOVA summary and coefficient estimates.

Charts 2014-08-05

Stata OLS Regression: primary obama dwn_1 dwn_2

From We’re More Likely To See A Senator Ousted In Tennessee Than In Kansas by Harry Enten

Ranked table of top 40 NFL wide receivers by BCS Rating, showing player name, debut year, and BCS rating for ranks 1 through 40.

Tables 2014-08-05

Top 40 NFL Wide Receivers by BCS Rating

From How Wide Receivers Are Like College Football Teams by Neil Paine

Line chart comparing the frequency of first letters of male and female author names in the arXiv data set, showing percentages for each letter A through Z.

Charts 2014-08-05

First Letters Of Male And Female Names

From Are Female Scientists Hiding? by Emma Pierson

Line chart comparing the frequency of first letters of male and female author names in the arXiv data set, showing percentages for each letter A through Z.

Charts 2014-08-05

First Letters Of Male And Female Names

From Are Female Scientists Hiding? by Emma Pierson

Line chart comparing predicted model distribution vs actual distribution of author first initials A-Z in the arXiv data set, with percentages up to 15%.

Charts 2014-08-05

How The Model Compares

From Are Female Scientists Hiding? by Emma Pierson

Line chart comparing predicted model distribution vs actual distribution of author first initials A-Z in the arXiv data set, with percentages up to 15%.

Charts 2014-08-05

How The Model Compares

From Are Female Scientists Hiding? by Emma Pierson

Line chart showing the share of arXiv authors' names beginning with each letter of the alphabet, broken out by male full name, female full name, and first initial only.

Charts 2014-08-05

Which Letters Do Authors' Names Start With?

From Are Female Scientists Hiding? by Emma Pierson

Line chart showing the share of arXiv authors' names beginning with each letter of the alphabet, broken down by male full name, female full name, and first initial only.

Charts 2014-08-05

Which Letters Do Authors' Names Start With?

From Are Female Scientists Hiding? by Emma Pierson

Line chart showing monthly mentions of the word terror in presidential public addresses for Bush and Obama administrations from 2001 to 2014.

Charts 2014-08-05

Bush And Obama Talk About Terrorism

From The Political Conversation Isn’t About Terrorism Anymore by Hayley Munguia

Line chart showing monthly mentions of the word terror in the Congressional Record from 2001 to 2014, with peaks around 2002 and 2006-2007.

Charts 2014-08-05

Congress Talks About Terrorism

From The Political Conversation Isn’t About Terrorism Anymore by Hayley Munguia

Line chart showing American opinions on U.S. counterterrorism efforts from 2005 to 2013, tracking those who say policies don't go far enough versus those who say they restrict civil liberties.

Charts 2014-08-05

What Americans Say About U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts

From The Political Conversation Isn’t About Terrorism Anymore by Hayley Munguia

Line chart comparing U.S. startup rate and share of population ages 35-45 from 1980 to 2010, showing startup rate declining while prime entrepreneurial population peaked around 2000.

Charts 2014-08-05

Startup Rate vs. Prime Entrepreneurial Population

From Don’t Blame Age For Declining U.S. Entrepreneurship by Ben Casselman

Table showing Indianapolis Colts 2014 NFL schedule with date, local kickoff time, opponent, temperature at kickoff, and Lucas Oil Stadium roof position for each game.

Tables 2014-08-06

Colts 2014 Schedule: Kickoff Temperature and Lucas Oil Stadium Roof Position

From The Odds Of Winning The Indianapolis Colts’ Weather Challenge by Matt Lanza

Box plot chart showing historical temperature ranges at kickoff time for 2014 Indianapolis Colts game locations, based on observed temperatures from 1984-2013.

Charts 2014-08-06

Temperature Range At 2014 Colts' Game Locations

From The Odds Of Winning The Indianapolis Colts’ Weather Challenge by Matt Lanza

Box-and-whisker style chart showing temperature ranges in Fahrenheit for three possible kickoff times for the Colts' Dec. 21 game in Dallas.

Charts 2014-08-06

Temperature Range For Colts' Dec. 21 Game In Dallas

From The Odds Of Winning The Indianapolis Colts’ Weather Challenge by Matt Lanza

Line chart comparing recovery rate by age for injured NBA star players versus all NBA players with a 7.5 WAR season, showing injured players decline faster.

Charts 2014-08-06

How Injury Affects Longterm Player Value

From What Happens To Injured NBA Stars Like Paul George? by Nate Silver

Color-coded table showing NBA star players' wins above replacement before and after serious injuries, with recovery rates ranging from 195% to -3%.

Tables 2014-08-06

How Well NBA Players Recover From Injuries

From What Happens To Injured NBA Stars Like Paul George? by Nate Silver

Scatter plot showing NBA star players' post-injury recovery rate by age, with a red trend line indicating younger players retain more value after injury.

Charts 2014-08-06

Younger Players Retain More Value After Injury

From What Happens To Injured NBA Stars Like Paul George? by Nate Silver

Line chart showing percentage of men and women who rated 4 or 5 on feeling good about physical appearance, by age group, from Gallup-Healthways 2014 data.

Charts 2014-08-06

Americans' Perceptions of Their Physical Appearance, by Gender and Age

From What’s The Best Age To Be? by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing percentage of American men and women by age group who rated 4 or 5 on feeling good about their physical appearance, from Gallup 2014 data.

Charts 2014-08-06

Americans' Perceptions of Their Physical Appearance, by Gender and Age

From What’s The Best Age To Be? by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot showing current and expected future life satisfaction scores by age, with green circles for expected t+5 and red squares for current satisfaction.

Charts 2014-08-06

Life Satisfaction by Age: Current vs. Expected (t+5)

From What’s The Best Age To Be? by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot showing current life satisfaction and expected life satisfaction in 5 years by age, with green circles for expected and red squares for current values.

Charts 2014-08-06

Life Satisfaction: Current vs. Expected for t+5 by Age

From What’s The Best Age To Be? by Mona Chalabi

Ranked list of key life stages for women and men with the age they hope to achieve each milestone, titled The Key Stages in an Ideal Life.

Tables 2014-08-06

The Key Stages in an Ideal Life

From What’s The Best Age To Be? by Mona Chalabi

Infographic listing the top 10 key life stages for women and men with the age they hope to achieve each milestone, from FiveThirtyEight.

Other 2014-08-06

The Key Stages in an Ideal Life

From What’s The Best Age To Be? by Mona Chalabi

Dot plot with trend line showing share of primary vote for incumbent Republican senators from 2004 to 2014, with notable senators labeled.

Charts 2014-08-06

Share Of Primary Vote For Incumbent Republican Senators

From Republicans Have More Reason Than Ever To Worry About Primary Challenges by Nate Silver

Trulia scatter plot showing year-over-year percent change in job growth versus asking home price for US metro areas, with cities like Austin, San Francisco, and Detroit labeled.

Charts 2014-08-07

Job Growth and Home Prices — Trulia

From Home Prices Are Now More Reliant On Jobs Growth by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing probability of winning the NBA title based on regular-season win total, comparing historical likelihood and modeled likelihood from 40 to 70+ wins.

Charts 2014-08-07

54 Wins Don't Make A Championship Contender

From With LeBron And Love, The Cavs Have About 65 Wins On Their Roster by Nate Silver

Table showing Cleveland Cavaliers players with minutes per game, net points per 100 possessions, and allocated wins, totaling 65.1 wins.

Tables 2014-08-07

Cleveland Cavaliers Player Stats: Minutes, Net Points, Allocated Wins

From With LeBron And Love, The Cavs Have About 65 Wins On Their Roster by Nate Silver

Two-part table comparing New England Patriots game statistics before and after Spygate, showing date, opponent, point spread, over/under, predicted points, actual points, and diff for each game.

Tables 2014-08-07

Before and After Spygate — Patriots Game Stats Comparison

From The Patriots’ Opponents Won’t Let Spygate Die, But Did It Really Matter? by Neil Paine

Line chart showing San Francisco-area startup rate and new-business failure rate from 1980 to 2012, with failure rate rising and startup rate declining over time.

Charts 2014-08-08

San Francisco-Area Entrepreneurship

From Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the share of new companies failing in their first year from 1977 to 2011, ranging roughly between 16% and 28%.

Charts 2014-08-08

Startup Failure Rate

From Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing U.S. companies by age as a share of total from 1990 to 2010, with younger companies declining and older companies rising.

Charts 2014-08-08

U.S. Companies By Age

From Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the U.S. startup rate declining from about 17% in the late 1970s to around 8% by 2011, measured as new businesses less than a year old as a share of total.

Charts 2014-08-08

U.S. Startup Rate

From Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot showing lifetime average points for vs points against for the top 50 Scrabble players, with Nigel Richards highlighted as an outlier far to the right.

Charts 2014-08-08

Nigel Richards Is In His Own League

From What Makes Nigel Richards The Best Scrabble Player On Earth by Oliver Roeder

Table listing Scrabble tournament results including tournament name, date, location, finish position, and number of competitors from 1999 to 2013.

Tables 2014-08-08

Scrabble Tournament Results Table

From What Makes Nigel Richards The Best Scrabble Player On Earth by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot with red trend line comparing data points from the 2012 campaign and 2016 campaign, showing a sharp peak in 2012 and a flatter curve in 2016.

Charts 2014-08-08

2012 vs. 2016 Campaign Comparison

From Dear Mona, How Many People Have Never Drunk Alcohol? by Mona Chalabi

Dot plot showing abstinence from alcohol by age group across three measures: never had a drink, no drinks in the past year, and no drinks in the past month, based on a 2012 survey of 68,309 Americans.

Charts 2014-08-08

Abstinence From Alcohol

From Dear Mona, How Many People Have Never Drunk Alcohol? by Mona Chalabi

Dot plot showing abstinence from alcohol by age group across three measures: never had a drink, no drinks in the past year, and no drinks in the past month, based on a 2012 survey of 68,309 Americans.

Charts 2014-08-08

Abstinence From Alcohol

From Dear Mona, How Many People Have Never Drunk Alcohol? by Mona Chalabi

Table showing LeBron James team and performance statistics by year including RPM, SPM, minutes played percentage, and team metrics with and without LeBron.

Tables 2014-08-09

LeBron James RPM and SPM Statistics by Year and Team

From These Cavs Could Be LeBron’s Best Supporting Cast Ever by Neil Paine

Two line charts showing usage rates of 'Uh' and 'Um' by sex (M/F) and age group (20-39, 40-59, 60-69).

Charts 2014-08-10

'Uh' and 'Um' by sex and age

From Ctrl + ← Ebola, Verbal Pauses And Prostitutes by Mona Chalabi

Combined bar chart and map showing Ebola cases and deaths over time (April–August) for Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, with choropleth maps showing case and death counts by country.

Charts 2014-08-10

Ebola Cases and Deaths by Country Over Time

From Ctrl + ← Ebola, Verbal Pauses And Prostitutes by Mona Chalabi

Six choropleth maps of Africa comparing internet access, education, HIV prevalence, income, life expectancy, and maternal mortality to the world, each paired with a trend line chart.

Maps 2014-08-10

How Africa Compares to the World: Six Development Indicators

From Ctrl + ← Ebola, Verbal Pauses And Prostitutes by Mona Chalabi

Area chart comparing mentions of Air Strikes vs Boots On The Ground per 1000 words in White House Press Briefings by quarter from 1994 to 2015.

Charts 2014-08-10

Mentions of "Air Strikes" vs. "Boots On The Ground" In White House Press Briefings

From Ctrl + ← Ebola, Verbal Pauses And Prostitutes by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot showing absolute polling errors in the final 21 days of Senate campaigns since 2006, with a downward trend line from about 4ppt to 2ppt.

Charts 2014-08-11

Gold-Standard Poll Errors

From Are Bad Pollsters Copying Good Pollsters? by Harry Enten

Line chart showing absolute polling errors in the final 21 days of Senate campaigns since 2006, comparing gold-standard polls to nontraditional polls with and without gold-standard polls available.

Charts 2014-08-11

No Gold-Standard Polls Means Less Accurate Nontraditional Polls

From Are Bad Pollsters Copying Good Pollsters? by Harry Enten

Scatter plot showing absolute polling errors for nontraditional polls in the final 21 days of Senate campaigns since 2006, with a trend line hovering around 4 percentage points.

Charts 2014-08-11

Nontraditional Poll Errors With Gold-Standard Polls Available

From Are Bad Pollsters Copying Good Pollsters? by Harry Enten

Scatter plot showing absolute polling errors for nontraditional polls with no gold-standard polls available in the final 21 days of Senate campaigns since 2006, with a downward trend line.

Charts 2014-08-11

Nontraditional Poll Errors With No Gold-Standard Polls Available

From Are Bad Pollsters Copying Good Pollsters? by Harry Enten

Scatter plot with colored dots in red, blue, green, and dark navy on a light yellow grid background, showing a dispersed pattern of data points.

Charts 2014-08-11

Scatter Plot with Multicolored Data Points

From Baseball Scouts Use Numbers, Too by Alan Siegel

Step chart comparing major golf wins by age for golfers with 4 or more majors since 1936, highlighting Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and 14 other players.

Charts 2014-08-11

Golfers With 4 Or More Major Wins

From Rory McIlroy Could Be A Bigger Threat To Jack Nicklaus Than Tiger Woods by Benjamin Morris

Step-line chart comparing major golf wins by age for golfers with 4 or more majors since 1936, highlighting Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and 14 other players.

Charts 2014-08-11

Golfers With 4 Or More Major Wins

From Rory McIlroy Could Be A Bigger Threat To Jack Nicklaus Than Tiger Woods by Benjamin Morris

Bubble chart showing golfers' age when winning their fourth major vs. majors won per year between first and fourth victories, with bubble size proportional to additional majors won beyond four.

Charts 2014-08-11

When Winning 4 Means Winning More

From Rory McIlroy Could Be A Bigger Threat To Jack Nicklaus Than Tiger Woods by Benjamin Morris

Bubble chart showing golfers' age when winning their fourth major vs. majors won per year between first and fourth victories, with bubble size proportional to additional majors won beyond four.

Charts 2014-08-11

When Winning 4 Means Winning More

From Rory McIlroy Could Be A Bigger Threat To Jack Nicklaus Than Tiger Woods by Benjamin Morris

Round 1 Winners of the Poblano Quadrant burrito bracket showing four restaurants with scores: Lolita's Taco Shop 88, Taqueria Tlaxcalli 91, Breakfast Burritos Anonymous 80, The Pantry 88.

Other 2014-08-12

Round 1 Winners: Poblano Quadrant

From An Unlikely Burrito Is The First To Make It To The Finals by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Photo of a cheese-covered burrito on a tray with scorecard showing Round 2 ratings for The Pantry's Adovada Burrito with Green, totaling 84 points.

Other 2014-08-12

Round 2 Scorecard: The Pantry Adovada Burrito with Green

From An Unlikely Burrito Is The First To Make It To The Finals by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Other 2014-08-12

Round 2: Breakfast Burrito Anonymous – Sausage and Egg Burrito Scorecard

From An Unlikely Burrito Is The First To Make It To The Finals by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Other 2014-08-12

Round 2: Lolita's Taco Shop California — Burrito Scorecard

From An Unlikely Burrito Is The First To Make It To The Finals by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Photo of a carne asada burrito from Taqueria Tlaxcalli with scoring breakdown showing 92 total points across five categories, labeled as a Poblano Winner.

Other 2014-08-12

Round 2: Taqueria Tlaxcalli Carne Asada Burrito — Poblano Winner

From An Unlikely Burrito Is The First To Make It To The Finals by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Line chart showing job seekers per job opening from 2005 to 2014, with two lines peaking around 2009-2010 and declining thereafter.

Charts 2014-08-12

Job Seekers Per Job Opening

From By Any Measure, The Job Market Is Getting Better by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing job seekers per job opening from 2005 to 2014, with a blue line including involuntary part-timers peaking above 13 around 2009-2010 then declining.

Charts 2014-08-12

Job Seekers Per Job Opening

From By Any Measure, The Job Market Is Getting Better by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing job seekers per job opening from 2005 to 2014, with a blue line peaking near 9.5 around 2009-2010 and declining to about 3.3 by 2014.

Charts 2014-08-12

Job Seekers Per Job Opening

From By Any Measure, The Job Market Is Getting Better by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing job seekers per job opening from 2005 to 2014, peaking near 7 around 2009-2010 and declining back to about 2 by 2014.

Charts 2014-08-12

Job Seekers Per Job Opening

From By Any Measure, The Job Market Is Getting Better by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing probability of winning the Super Bowl given a QB's ANY/A+ at different levels of 2013 defensive SRS for four NFL teams.

Charts 2014-08-12

Probability Of Winning The Super Bowl

From The Bengals Don’t Have A Better Option Than Andy Dalton by Neil Paine

S-curve line chart showing the probability that a new NFL starting quarterback will have a higher ANY/A+ rating than the preceding quarterback, as a function of the preceding QB's ANY/A+ score.

Charts 2014-08-12

When Should NFL Teams Get A New Starting QB?

From The Bengals Don’t Have A Better Option Than Andy Dalton by Neil Paine

Two line charts showing frequency of key defensive penalties per 600 pass plays and average NFL passing efficiency (ANY/A) from 1998 to around 2013.

Charts 2014-08-12

Frequency Of Key Defensive Penalties & Average NFL Passing Efficiency

From The NFL’s New Defensive Rules Probably Aren’t Going To Make A Difference by Neil Paine

Table comparing home run rates for meatball vs non-meatball pitches by count and pitch type, showing differences across even, ahead, and behind counts.

Tables 2014-08-13

Meatball vs. Non-Meatball Home Run Rates by Count and Pitch Type

From Here’s What Happens When A Pitcher Throws A Meatball by Jeff Sullivan

Dot plot comparing swing contact rates for good pitches vs meatballs across fastball and off-speed pitch types, broken down by count situation: even, ahead, and behind.

Charts 2014-08-13

Meaty Contact: Swing contact rates, per pitch type

From Here’s What Happens When A Pitcher Throws A Meatball by Jeff Sullivan

Dot plot comparing slugging percentage for good pitches vs meatballs by pitch type (fastball and off-speed) across even, ahead, and behind counts.

Charts 2014-08-13

Meaty Slugging: Slugging Percentage by Pitch Type

From Here’s What Happens When A Pitcher Throws A Meatball by Jeff Sullivan

Dot plot comparing baseball swing rates for good pitches vs meatballs by pitch type and count situation (even, ahead, behind).

Charts 2014-08-13

Meaty Swings: Swing rates, per pitch type

From Here’s What Happens When A Pitcher Throws A Meatball by Jeff Sullivan

Dot chart ranking Democratic senators who endorsed Hillary Clinton by DW-Nominate ideology score, from more liberal to more moderate, with female senators highlighted in blue.

Charts 2014-08-13

Does Ideology Affect Clinton's Endorsements?

From Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Have A Problem On Her Left by Nate Silver

Line chart showing summer employment rates by race and ethnicity for ages 16-17 from 1977 to 2013, with White, Hispanic, and Black trend lines all declining over time.

Charts 2014-08-13

Summer Employment Rates By Race And Ethnicity

From Summer Jobs Are Slowly Disappearing by Ben Casselman

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