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Line chart showing each party's chance of controlling the Senate through September 30, 2014, with Republicans at 58% and Democrats at 42%, marked by a Kansas Supreme Court ruling event.

Charts 2014-10-01

FiveThirtyEight's Senate Forecast

From Senate Update: Watching The Signal And Not The Noise by Harry Enten

Horizontal diverging bar chart showing racial representation gaps between police officers and residents in the 75 largest U.S. police forces in 2010, ranked by total dispersion index.

Charts 2014-10-01

Which U.S. City Has The Least Representative Police Force?

From Reexamining Residency Requirements For Police Officers by Batya Ungar-Sargon, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted hire rate and voluntary quits rate as measures of economic confidence from 2001 to 2014.

Charts 2014-10-01

Measures Of Economic Confidence

From Still No Recovery For U.S. Entrepreneurship by Ben Casselman

Ranked table of top tennis winning streaks showing player, dates, top 10 wins, tour-level wins, and total wins, led by Novak Djokovic's Dec. 2010–June 2011 streak.

Tables 2014-10-01

Greatest Tennis Winning Streaks by Tour-Level Wins

From Can David Goffin Keep Winning? by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing the average, minimum, and maximum height of men's Grand Slam winners in the Open era from 1968 to around 2014, with an upward trend in average height.

Charts 2014-10-01

Men's Grand Slam Winners, By Height

From Can David Goffin Keep Winning? by Carl Bialik

Table listing tennis players with the year they qualified and their best ATP ranking, including David Goffin, Robin Haase, and others.

Tables 2014-10-01

Tennis Players: Year and Best Rank

From Can David Goffin Keep Winning? by Carl Bialik

Scatter plot showing ace percentage vs. player height for top 50 ATP tennis players in 2014, with a red trend line and labeled players including Karlovic, Isner, Raonic, Federer, Dolgopolov, and Goffin.

Charts 2014-10-01

You Can't Teach Tall: Ace Percentage for Top 50 Players in 2014

From Can David Goffin Keep Winning? by Carl Bialik

Histogram showing simulation results of Republican Senate seats won, based on 1129 polls analyzed as of October 1, 2014, 34 days before the election.

Charts 2014-10-02

Simulation Results: Republican Senate Seats (10/01/14)

From Senate Update: Don’t Take These Poll Results At Face Value by Harry Enten

Scatter plot comparing NFL QB wins through Week 4 vs. average yards thrown downfield when trailing, highlighting Foles, Flacco, and Derek Carr.

Charts 2014-10-02

Gunslinger Of The Quarter-Season

From Skeptical Football: Dynasties, Perfect Kickers And A Weird NFL Rule by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NFL Week 4 QBs by average yards thrown downfield vs. percentage of passes thrown past the first-down marker when trailing, highlighting Cutler, Foles, and Bortles.

Charts 2014-10-02

Gunslinging In NFL Week 4

From Skeptical Football: Dynasties, Perfect Kickers And A Weird NFL Rule by Benjamin Morris

Table ranking NFL kickers by points above expected, showing field goals and extra points for the top 10 kickers including Dan Bailey, Chandler Catanzaro, and others.

Tables 2014-10-02

NFL Kickers Ranked by Points Above Expected

From Skeptical Football: Dynasties, Perfect Kickers And A Weird NFL Rule by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NFL Week 4 kickers' contribution to team's margin of victory versus points above expectation, with Bullock highlighted as top performer and Suisham as worst.

Charts 2014-10-02

NFL Week 4 Kicking MVP

From Skeptical Football: Dynasties, Perfect Kickers And A Weird NFL Rule by Benjamin Morris

Dot chart showing NFL teams with 10+ win seasons and 5+ year streaks of such seasons from 1966 to 2013, with blue outlined dots marking dynasty streaks.

Charts 2014-10-02

The NFL's Last Dynasty? 10+ win seasons and 5+ year streaks, 1966-2013

From Skeptical Football: Dynasties, Perfect Kickers And A Weird NFL Rule by Benjamin Morris

Four bubble scatter plots showing NFL pass-to-run ratio by quarter (Q1-Q4) and point differential in 2014, with bubble size representing total plays.

Charts 2014-10-02

Where Run/Pass Balance In The NFL Comes From

From Skeptical Football: Dynasties, Perfect Kickers And A Weird NFL Rule by Benjamin Morris

Color-coded tables comparing NFL players' relative arrest rates for all crimes and domestic violence under different assumptions about database completeness and comparable population arrest rates.

Tables 2014-10-02

How Do NFL Players' Arrest Rates Compare?

From More On The Rate Of Domestic Violence Arrests Among NFL Players by Benjamin Morris

Table ranking the top 102 New York City fine dining restaurants by VORB score, showing Michelin stars, cost, borough, average Yelp stars, review count, and adjusted review count.

Tables 2014-10-02

How Does Yelp Do With Fine Dining? Top 102 NYC Restaurants by VORB

From Yelp And Michelin Have The Same Taste In New York Restaurants by Nate Silver

Box plot comparing average Yelp star ratings against 0-3 Michelin star ratings for New York City restaurants in 2015, showing higher Michelin stars correlate with higher Yelp ratings.

Charts 2014-10-02

Michelin Stars Match Yelp Stars

From Yelp And Michelin Have The Same Taste In New York Restaurants by Nate Silver

Stata regression output table showing OLS results for average Yelp stars regressed on Michelin stars and Yelp price level, with 101 observations and R-squared of 0.3737.

Tables 2014-10-02

OLS Regression: Average Yelp Stars on Michelin Stars and Yelp Dollars

From Yelp And Michelin Have The Same Taste In New York Restaurants by Nate Silver

Bar chart showing simulation results of Republican Senate seats distribution from a FiveThirtyEight election model run on 10/02/14, with 1147 polls analyzed and 33 days until election.

Charts 2014-10-03

Simulation Results: Republican Senate Seats (10/02/14)

From Senate Update: Democrats Wrapping Up In Michigan by Harry Enten

Horizontal bar chart showing the prevalence of female characters in the top 100 grossing films of 2013, grouped by percentage ranges of female characters.

Charts 2014-10-03

Gender Parity Is Not Even Close To A Thing

From The Herculean Effort Taken By One Group To Show Hollywood Is Sexist by Walt Hickey

Horizontal bar chart showing percentages of positions filled by women in the top 100 grossing films of 2013: Producers 19.6%, Writers 7.4%, Directors 1.9%.

Charts 2014-10-03

Women Are Even Rarer Behind The Camera

From The Herculean Effort Taken By One Group To Show Hollywood Is Sexist by Walt Hickey

Bar chart showing the percentage of female characters in top 100 grossing films from 2007 to 2013, hovering around 29-33% with no clear upward trend.

Charts 2014-10-03

Women Are Underrepresented In Movies, And There's No Sign Of Change

From The Herculean Effort Taken By One Group To Show Hollywood Is Sexist by Walt Hickey

Heat map table showing the percentage frequency of men's English league soccer results by final home and visitor score, tiers 1-4, 1888 through 2013-14 season.

Charts 2014-10-03

Frequency Of Soccer Results

From In 126 Years, English Football Has Seen 13,475 Nil-Nil Draws by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing season average goals per game in each English soccer league tier from 1890 to 2010s, with shaded regions marking play suspended for world wars.

Charts 2014-10-03

The Evolution Of Scoring In English Soccer

From In 126 Years, English Football Has Seen 13,475 Nil-Nil Draws by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the percentage of games drawn in English league football from 1890 to 2010, with shaded gaps for World War suspensions.

Charts 2014-10-03

The Prevalence Of Draws

From In 126 Years, English Football Has Seen 13,475 Nil-Nil Draws by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing new voter registrations in 28 St. Louis County townships from 2002 to 2014, highlighting a surge of +3,287 in Ferguson city in the past 2 months.

Charts 2014-10-03

Registration Surges In Ferguson

From Ferguson’s Elections Look Like They Are About to Change by Harry Enten

Line chart showing annual growth in average hourly earnings (not adjusted for inflation) from 2008 to 2014, declining from about 3% to around 2%.

Charts 2014-10-03

Annual Growth In Average Hourly Earnings

From September’s Jobs Report Was Good, And August’s Got Better by Ben Casselman

Bar chart showing seasonally adjusted jobs added per month from 2012 to 2014, with a red line indicating the three-month average, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Charts 2014-10-03

Jobs Added Per Month

From September’s Jobs Report Was Good, And August’s Got Better by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted unemployment by reason for joblessness from 2007 to 2014, comparing those who lost a job versus those who quit voluntarily or started a job search.

Charts 2014-10-03

Unemployed By Reason For Joblessness

From September’s Jobs Report Was Good, And August’s Got Better by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the percentage of unemployed people who found a job versus stopped looking one month later, from 2007 to 2014, seasonally adjusted.

Charts 2014-10-03

What The Unemployed Are Doing One Month Later

From September’s Jobs Report Was Good, And August’s Got Better by Ben Casselman

Line chart comparing the percentage of male flight attendants versus the overall male U.S. workforce from 1980 to 2012.

Charts 2014-10-03

Male Flight Attendants And The U.S. Workforce

From Dear Mona, How Many Flight Attendants Are Men? by Mona Chalabi

Line chart comparing the percentage of male flight attendants versus the overall male U.S. workforce from 1980 to 2012.

Charts 2014-10-03

Male Flight Attendants And The U.S. Workforce

From Dear Mona, How Many Flight Attendants Are Men? by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing percentage of US male workers by sector in 2012, titled Men At Work, with occupations listed from highest to lowest male percentage.

Charts 2014-10-03

Men At Work: Percentage of U.S. Workers Who Are Male, by Sector (2012)

From Dear Mona, How Many Flight Attendants Are Men? by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing percentage of US male workers by sector in 2012, titled Men At Work, with occupations listed from highest to lowest male percentage.

Charts 2014-10-03

Men At Work: Percentage of U.S. Workers Who Are Male, by Sector (2012)

From Dear Mona, How Many Flight Attendants Are Men? by Mona Chalabi

Polling data table for Colorado Senate race between Mark Udall and Cory Gardner, showing DEM, REP, margin, weight, and adjusted margin for multiple polling firms in 2014.

Tables 2014-10-03

Colorado: Mark Udall vs. Cory Gardner Polling Table

From We’ve Added State-By-State Polling Detail To Our Senate Forecast Interactive by Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight analysis table showing polling averages, projected vote share, and win probability for Democratic and Republican candidates, with Republicans leading.

Tables 2014-10-03

FiveThirtyEight Analysis: DEM vs REP Polling and Win Probability

From We’ve Added State-By-State Polling Detail To Our Senate Forecast Interactive by Nate Silver

Histogram showing simulation results of Republican Senate seats won, based on 1152 polls analyzed on 10/03/14 with 32 days until election.

Charts 2014-10-04

Simulation Results: Republican Senate Seats (10/03/14)

From Senate Update: A Reality Check On The Polls And Our Forecast by Harry Enten

Stacked area chart showing the number of Texas women ages 15-44 living more than 50, 100, and 200 miles from the nearest abortion clinic from July 2013 to October 2014.

Charts 2014-10-04

How Abortion Access Has Changed In Texas

From How Abortion Access Has Changed In Texas by Hayley Munguia

Horizontal bar chart showing number of abortions performed in Texas across three time periods, comparing ambulatory surgical center totals to overall totals.

Charts 2014-10-04

In Texas, Most Abortions Are Now Illegal

From How Abortion Access Has Changed In Texas by Hayley Munguia

Choropleth map of the United States showing college football team fan territories by zip code, with each region colored by the dominant team.

Maps 2014-10-05

College Football Fan Territories Map

From Ctrl + ← Traveling Salesmen, Kissing And Political Fan Fiction by Mona Chalabi

Bubble pie charts showing the political lean (Republican vs Democratic) of daytime talk show audiences for Dr. Phil, The View, Rachel Ray, Dr. Oz, The Talk, Queen Latifah, Ellen, and Steve Harvey.

Charts 2014-10-05

Daytime Talk Shows — Political Lean of Audiences

From Ctrl + ← Traveling Salesmen, Kissing And Political Fan Fiction by Mona Chalabi

Multi-line chart showing US household income by percentile from 1975 to 2013, with lines color-coded from dark red at the bottom to blue at the top.

Charts 2014-10-05

Household Income In America

From Ctrl + ← Traveling Salesmen, Kissing And Political Fan Fiction by Mona Chalabi

Bar chart showing Political Fanfic Ratings for UK politicians, comparing Mostly Harmless vs NSFW story counts for Mandelson, Cameron, Clegg, Osborne, Balls, and Gove.

Charts 2014-10-05

Political Fanfic Ratings

From Ctrl + ← Traveling Salesmen, Kissing And Political Fan Fiction by Mona Chalabi

US map showing a traveling salesman route connecting points across all states with distance 10,878 miles at iteration 260,000 of a simulated annealing algorithm.

Maps 2014-10-05

Traveling Salesman Route: Distance 10,878 miles, Iterations 260,000

From Ctrl + ← Traveling Salesmen, Kissing And Political Fan Fiction by Mona Chalabi

Map of France showing how many times people kiss when greeting a friend, by département, with colors indicating once through five times.

Maps 2014-10-05

When you greet a friend, how many times do you kiss?

From Ctrl + ← Traveling Salesmen, Kissing And Political Fan Fiction by Mona Chalabi

Histogram of simulation results showing probability distribution of Republican Senate seats, peaking around 52 seats, dated October 5, 2014.

Charts 2014-10-05

Simulation Results: Republican Senate Seats (10/05/14)

From Senate Update: Lots Of Polls But Little Change by Nate Silver

Two-column table listing respondent names and their associated polling organizations, including Pew Research Center, Monmouth University, and others.

Tables 2014-10-06

Polling Organization Respondents List

From Pollsters Predict Greater Polling Error In Midterm Elections by Carl Bialik

US map showing states affected by same-sex marriage rulings as of Oct. 6, 2014, color-coded by yes, likely, or no marriage equality, with population figures.

Maps 2014-10-06

Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Affects 11 States

From Same-Sex Marriage Is Now Legal For A Majority Of The U.S. by Nate Silver, Allison McCann

Table listing NFL weeks by year, upset percentage, and average rating points exchanged, sorted by highest average rating points exchanged.

Tables 2014-10-06

NFL Weeks by Upset% and Average Rating Points Exchanged

From Where Last Weekend Ranks Among College Football’s Craziest by Neil Paine

Table ranking college football weeks by Top 25 upset percentage and unexpected wins per game, sorted by unexpected wins per game from 2008 to 2012.

Tables 2014-10-06

Top 25 Upset% and Unexpected Wins/Game by Year and Week

From Where Last Weekend Ranks Among College Football’s Craziest by Neil Paine

Bar chart showing simulation results of Republican Senate seats won, based on 1237 polls analyzed on 10/06/14 with 29 days until election.

Charts 2014-10-07

Simulation Results: Republican Senate Seats (10/06/14)

From Senate Update: Don’t Forget About Kentucky And Georgia by Harry Enten

Horizontal bar chart showing the first and second most common animal names for each letter of the alphabet across 50 ABC books, with gold bars for most common and red for second most common.

Charts 2014-10-07

A Is For ... First and second most common animal names in 50 ABC books

From Z Is For Zebra — 90 Percent Of The Time by David Goldenberg

Line chart comparing percent change in job openings versus hires since June 2009, showing openings rising to over 100% while hires grew only about 30% by 2014.

Charts 2014-10-07

Change In Job Openings vs. Hires Since June 2009

From Slow Hiring Shows That The Job Market Isn’t Fully Healed by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted unemployed workers per job opening from 2001 to 2014, peaking near 6.8 around 2009 and declining to about 2 by 2014.

Charts 2014-10-07

Unemployed Workers Per Job Opening

From Slow Hiring Shows That The Job Market Isn’t Fully Healed by Ben Casselman

Bar chart showing the percentage of U.S. population living in states with same-sex marriage from 2004 to October 2014, rising to just over 50%.

Charts 2014-10-07

Percentage Of U.S. Population Living In States With Same-Sex Marriage

From The Expansion Of Same-Sex Marriage Over Time by Allison McCann

Five-panel chart showing two IMF scenarios for oil shock impacts on world oil price, real GDP, CPI inflation, equity prices, and second-year GDP impact by region from 2013 to 2019.

Charts 2014-10-07

IMF Oil Shock Scenarios: World and Regional Economic Impacts

From The IMF Models The Economic Spillover Of An Escalated Conflict In Iraq by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing probability of being in AP's pre-bowl Top 4 by rank group and week, with Top 4 teams reaching ~85% by week 15.

Charts 2014-10-07

Who Will Make The College Football Playoffs?

From Now Is When College Football Starts To Matter by Neil Paine

Histogram showing FiveThirtyEight Senate election simulation results from October 7, 2014, displaying probability distribution of Republican seats won ranging from 42 to 59.

Charts 2014-10-08

Senate Simulation Results — Republican Seats (10/07/14)

From Senate Update: What’s The Matter With South Dakota? by Nate Silver

Scatter plot of vault difficulty scores vs execution scores in women's gymnastics 2009-2013, highlighting Biles, Maroney, and Sacramone.

Charts 2014-10-08

American Gymnasts Are Flying High

From American Gymnasts Are Exceptional On The Vault by Carla Correa

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Ratings table dated Oct. 8, 2014, ranking all 32 NFL teams by Elo rating with Elo change and rank change columns.

Tables 2014-10-08

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Ratings — Oct. 8, 2014

From NFL Week 6 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight NFL Elo Ratings table from Oct. 8, 2014 showing all 32 teams with Elo rating, simulated wins/losses/point differential, and playoff odds.

Tables 2014-10-08

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Ratings — Oct. 8, 2014

From NFL Week 6 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

Scatter plot showing NFL preseason Elo rating vs Elo rating after Week 5, with a red trend line indicating preseason performance is predictive of early-season results.

Charts 2014-10-08

Preseason Performance Is Predictive (In the NFL)

From NFL Week 6 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

Table showing Week 6 NFL matchups with Elo ratings, win percentages, and point spreads for home and visiting teams, with favored teams highlighted in blue.

Tables 2014-10-08

Week 6 NFL Matchups According To Elo Ratings

From NFL Week 6 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

Two US county-level maps comparing locations of 379 Whole Foods stores and 634 Cracker Barrel restaurants, illustrating America's organic versus nostalgic food divide.

Maps 2014-10-08

America's Organic/Nostalgic Divide: Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel

From Senate Control Could Come Down To Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel by David Wasserman

Table showing presidential election winners from 1992 to 2012 with vote share in Whole Foods counties, Cracker Barrel counties, and the resulting culture gap.

Tables 2014-10-08

Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel Counties Culture Gap by Election Year

From Senate Control Could Come Down To Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel by David Wasserman

Table comparing Whole Foods and Cracker Barrel favorability percentages by state, with Cracker Barrel edge calculated as the difference.

Tables 2014-10-08

Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel Favorability by State

From Senate Control Could Come Down To Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel by David Wasserman

Four scatter plots with trend lines showing home-field advantage (percentage of regular-season wins for the home team) over time for MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL leagues.

Charts 2014-10-08

Home-Field Advantage

From Home-Field Advantage Doesn’t Mean What It Used To In English Football by Oliver Roeder, James Curley

Three scatter plots with trend lines showing home wins, away wins, and draws as a percentage in English men's soccer from 1888 to 2010.

Charts 2014-10-08

Home-Field Advantage In English Men's Soccer

From Home-Field Advantage Doesn’t Mean What It Used To In English Football by Oliver Roeder, James Curley

Dual line charts showing smoothed home and away goals in English men's soccer from 1888 to 2010, illustrating a long-term decline in home-team scoring.

Charts 2014-10-08

Home-Team Scoring On The Decline

From Home-Field Advantage Doesn’t Mean What It Used To In English Football by Oliver Roeder, James Curley

Table showing vote-share totals by state, listing Kansas at 86% through New Hampshire at 92%.

Tables 2014-10-08

State Vote-Share Totals

From Orman Has His Largest Lead, But The Kansas Electorate Is More Fluid Than Elsewhere by Harry Enten

Bar chart showing simulation results of Republican Senate seats won, based on 1264 polls analyzed on 10/08/14 with 27 days until election.

Charts 2014-10-09

Simulation Results: Republican Senate Seats (10/08/14)

From Senate Update: Don’t Go Crazy by Harry Enten

Dual line charts showing probability that a marriage will remain intact over 20 years by pre-marriage living situation, split by men and women.

Charts 2014-10-09

Probability That A Marriage Will Remain Intact

From Dear Mona, Does Living Together Before Marriage Increase The Risk Of Divorce? by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot showing yards gained vs. rushing attempts on first-and-10 rushes from outside the 25-yard line in 2014, with DeMarco Murray highlighted as an outlier.

Charts 2014-10-09

DeMarco Murray Is Killing It

From Skeptical Football: DeMarco Murray Is Way Better At Running Than Alex Henery Is At Kicking by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NFL Week 5 kickers' contribution to team's margin of victory versus points above expectation, highlighting Henery as least valuable and Dawson as most valuable.

Charts 2014-10-09

NFL Week 5's Least Valuable Kicker

From Skeptical Football: DeMarco Murray Is Way Better At Running Than Alex Henery Is At Kicking by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot with trend lines comparing average points per drive for pass vs. run plays on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd down by field position, 2001 to present.

Charts 2014-10-09

Pass Or Run With 10 Yards To Go?

From Skeptical Football: DeMarco Murray Is Way Better At Running Than Alex Henery Is At Kicking by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot with trend lines comparing average points per drive for pass vs. run plays with less than 3 yards to go, by field position, across 2nd, 3rd, and 4th downs from 2001 to present.

Charts 2014-10-09

Pass Or Run With Less Than 3 Yards To Go?

From Skeptical Football: DeMarco Murray Is Way Better At Running Than Alex Henery Is At Kicking by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot with trend lines comparing average points per drive by field position for second-and-short vs. first-and-10 situations in NFL football from 2001 to present.

Charts 2014-10-09

Second-And-Short Is A Very Sweet Spot

From Skeptical Football: DeMarco Murray Is Way Better At Running Than Alex Henery Is At Kicking by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing the yard value of second-and-short over first-and-10 by field position, with a U-shaped curve lowest around the 30-yard line.

Charts 2014-10-09

Value Of Second-And-Short By Field Position

From Skeptical Football: DeMarco Murray Is Way Better At Running Than Alex Henery Is At Kicking by Benjamin Morris

Map and table showing how GOP wins in six key states (Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana) affect the probability of Republican Senate takeover, with bar chart of probabilities.

Tables 2014-10-09

The 'Maroon 6' Could Dictate Senate Control

From The ‘Maroon 6’: A Better Way To Look At The 2014 Senate Races by Nate Silver

Line chart showing Dan Sullivan's chance of winning in Alaska rising from 55.1% to 76.1% per FiveThirtyEight Senate forecast from Sept. 3 to Oct. 9.

Charts 2014-10-10

Dan Sullivan's Chance Of Winning In Alaska

From Senate Update: Republican Fortunes Rise In Alaska by Harry Enten

Bar chart showing FiveThirtyEight Senate election simulation results as of 10/09/14, displaying probability distribution of Republican seats won ranging from 42 to 59.

Charts 2014-10-10

Simulation Results: Republican Senate Seats (10/09/14)

From Senate Update: Republican Fortunes Rise In Alaska by Harry Enten

Scatter plot with regression discontinuity design showing change in share of Black police officers versus percent supporting a Black candidate, with a red dashed threshold line at 50%.

Charts 2014-10-10

Predicting Police Pct. Black

From Electing A Black Mayor Leads To More Black Police Officers by Dan Hopkins

Charts 2014-10-10

Average Value Of Tech Company Brands

From Apple And Google Have Huge Brands. The Rest Of Tech Is Stagnant. by Andrew Flowers

Charts 2014-10-10

Total Value Of Tech Company Brands

From Apple And Google Have Huge Brands. The Rest Of Tech Is Stagnant. by Andrew Flowers

Table showing percent of people in advanced, emerging, and developing economies rating various factors as very important for getting ahead in life, from a 2014 Pew survey.

Tables 2014-10-11

Education and Hard Work Important for Getting Ahead

From How To Get Ahead by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing the percentage of respondents in 44 countries who agree that success is out of their hands, based on 2014 Pew data.

Charts 2014-10-11

Is Success Out Of Our Hands?

From How To Get Ahead by Mona Chalabi

Grouped horizontal bar chart showing percentage of respondents in 20 countries who say hard work, being a man, being lucky, or who you know are very important to success, split by higher and lower GDP per capita.

Charts 2014-10-11

Which Forces Affect Your Success?

From How To Get Ahead by Mona Chalabi

Bar chart showing simulation results for Republican Senate seats won, based on 1288 polls analyzed 25 days before the November 2014 election, with the most likely outcome at 52 seats.

Charts 2014-10-11

Simulation Results: Republican Senate Seats (10/10/14)

From Senate Update: National And State Polls Are Starting To Show The Same Thing by Harry Enten

Interactive simulation showing disease spread for 10 illnesses including Ebola, Smallpox, Measles, SARS, and others, displaying days elapsed, people infected, and deaths as grid visualizations on Day 78.

Other 2014-10-12

Disease Spread Simulation — Day 78

From Ctrl + ← Wages, Commuting and College Loans by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing student loan default rates for Ivy League schools, with Princeton highest at 2.3% and Yale lowest at 0.9%.

Charts 2014-10-12

How the Ivy League stacks up when it comes to student loan default

From Ctrl + ← Wages, Commuting and College Loans by Mona Chalabi

Color-coded map of Manhattan showing street-level data with a blue arrow pointing to 10 Gracie Square on the Upper East Side.

Maps 2014-10-12

Manhattan Map with 10 Gracie Square Marked

From Ctrl + ← Wages, Commuting and College Loans by Mona Chalabi

Cartogram of US states sized by population in squares, highlighting Florida in teal to show the election-deciding population is smaller than Florida's population.

Maps 2014-10-12

The number of people who'll decide this election will likely be smaller than the population of Florida

From Ctrl + ← Wages, Commuting and College Loans by Mona Chalabi

Choropleth map of the United States showing average commute times in minutes by county, shaded from light pink (short commutes) to dark purple (long commutes).

Maps 2014-10-12

U.S. Commute Times in Minutes by County

From Ctrl + ← Wages, Commuting and College Loans by Mona Chalabi

Bar chart showing LGBT characters introduced into DC and Marvel comics per year from 1940 to the 2010s, including retroactive continuity changes, with a peak around 2003.

Charts 2014-10-13

Comics Are Gaining A Few LGBT Characters

From Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing the percentage of new DC and Marvel comic characters who are female from 1980 to the 2010s, with both hovering mostly between 25% and 40%.

Charts 2014-10-13

Comics Aren't Gaining Many Female Characters

From Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men by Walt Hickey

Stacked bar chart showing DC and Marvel character alignment (Good, Neutral, Bad) broken down by gender, titled Good Girls Gone Meh.

Charts 2014-10-13

Good Girls Gone Meh: Character Alignment by Gender

From Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men by Walt Hickey

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