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Dot plot showing winning powerlifting totals in pounds by weight class for USAPL, IPF, and Raw Unity competitions from 2012 to 2014.

Charts 2014-12-01

How Much Do Powerlifting Champions Lift?

From What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs by Michael Easter

Dot plot comparing weight-class records for tested (blue) and untested (red) powerlifters across dead lift, squat, and bench press events by weight class.

Charts 2014-12-01

Untested Powerlifters Have A Clear Edge

From What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs by Michael Easter

Density distribution chart of NBA player win shares by draft category (Expectation, Shoulder Chip, Team Darling) from 2001-2010.

Charts 2014-12-01

Distribution Of Player Win Shares By Draft Category, 2001-2010

From An NBA Player’s Draft-Day Grudge Doesn’t Help Him Play Better by Michael Lopez, Noah Davis

Three stacked density/distribution charts showing overlapping blue, red, and yellow curves across a range from -20 to +40 on the x-axis, with y-axis up to 10%.

Charts 2014-12-01

Distribution curves comparison across three panels

From An NBA Player’s Draft-Day Grudge Doesn’t Help Him Play Better by Michael Lopez, Noah Davis

Scatter plot comparing NBA actual draft pick number versus expected draft pick number from 2001-2010, with points colored to show Shoulder Chip (red), Expectation (yellow), and Team Darling (blue) categories.

Charts 2014-12-01

NBA Draft Pick vs. Expectation 2001-2010

From An NBA Player’s Draft-Day Grudge Doesn’t Help Him Play Better by Michael Lopez, Noah Davis

Scatter plot with local regression line showing Hillary Clinton's net favorable rating declining from about +17 in 2009 to about +4 by mid-2014.

Charts 2014-12-01

Hillary Clinton's Popularity Continues To Drop

From What Might Persuade Hillary Clinton Not To Run In 2016 by Harry Enten

Ranked table of Star Wars actors by total box office earnings in millions, both nominal and inflation-adjusted to 2013 dollars, with number of films listed.

Tables 2014-12-01

Star Wars Actors Ranked by Total Box Office Earnings

From Who Had The Worst Career After The First ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy? by Walt Hickey

Ranked table of 12 actors by total box office earnings in millions, both nominal and 2013 dollars, with number of films listed.

Tables 2014-12-01

Star Wars Actors Ranked by Total Box Office Earnings

From Who Had The Worst Career After The First ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy? by Walt Hickey

Scanned book page showing Tables VII, VIIA, and VIII with tennis stroke statistics for winners and placements from U.S. National Championship matches.

Tables 2014-12-02

Strokes Used in Winning Points — Tables VII, VIIA, VIII

From The Revolution In Tennis Stats That Didn’t Stick by Carl Bialik

Bar chart showing estimated new eligible and likely blood donors under three proposed FDA policy changes to the ban on men who have sex with men donating blood.

Charts 2014-12-02

New Blood Donors If FDA Changes Ban On Men Who've Had Sex With Men

From How Allowing Gay Men To Give Blood Would Affect Donations by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing the probability of the Philadelphia 76ers' losing streak lasting at least n games, declining steeply from 100% at 17 games toward 0% at 50+ games.

Charts 2014-12-02

Futility In Philly

From The Chances The Philadelphia 76ers’ Losing Streak Will Reach 18, 19, 20 … 54 Games by Neil Paine

Line chart showing hunting licenses issued by decade from 1960 to 2010, peaking around 1980 at about 16 million and declining to roughly 15 million by 2010.

Charts 2014-12-03

How Many Hunters Are There?

From How Skyrocketing Gun Sales Are Helping To Conserve Butterflies by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart showing Pittman-Robertson excise taxes collected for long guns, ammunition, and handguns from 1984 to 2013, with all three categories surging sharply after 2008.

Charts 2014-12-03

Pittman-Robertson Excise Taxes Collected

From How Skyrocketing Gun Sales Are Helping To Conserve Butterflies by Christie Aschwanden

Heat-map table showing College Football Playoff and National Championship odds for 9 schools based on 10,000 simulations as of Dec. 3, 2014.

Tables 2014-12-03

College Football Playoff And National Championship Odds

From College Football Playoff Update: TCU Promotion Shakes Up Odds by Nate Silver

Heatmap table showing projected final College Football Playoff Selection Committee rankings for 25+ schools based on 10,000 simulations as of Dec. 3, 2014.

Charts 2014-12-03

Projected Final College Football Playoff Selection Committee Rankings

From College Football Playoff Update: TCU Promotion Shakes Up Odds by Nate Silver

NFL team rankings table showing generic points favored and chances of playoffs, winning division, first-round bye, and top seed for all 32 teams.

Tables 2014-12-03

NFL Playoff Chances: Generic Points Favored and Postseason Probabilities

From NFL Week 14 Playoff Implications: The Chargers Have A Pulse by Mike Beuoy, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Color-coded table showing NFL game matchups with swing values and number of teams affected for playoffs, division, 1st-round bye, and top seed outcomes.

Tables 2014-12-03

NFL Playoff Implications: Swing and Teams by Game

From NFL Week 14 Playoff Implications: The Chargers Have A Pulse by Mike Beuoy, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Table of US cities ranked by unpredictability index showing temperature, precipitation, severe weather, and unpredictability scores for each city.

Tables 2014-12-04

City Weather Unpredictability Rankings

From Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? by Nate Silver, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart comparing Denver's daily high temperatures in 2011-2013 against the weekly average since 1994, showing high variability throughout the year.

Charts 2014-12-04

Denver's High Temperatures Are Unpredictable

From Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? by Nate Silver, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Choropleth map of the US showing temperature predictability by region, with Great Falls, Montana least predictable and Honolulu most predictable, based on 120 NWS stations 1994-2013.

Maps 2014-12-04

How Predictable Are U.S. Temperatures?

From Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? by Nate Silver, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Choropleth map of the US showing precipitation predictability by region, with western states more predictable (purple) and eastern/Great Lakes states less predictable (orange), based on 120 NWS stations 1994-2013.

Maps 2014-12-04

How Predictable Is U.S. Precipitation?

From Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? by Nate Silver, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Choropleth map of the US showing severe weather predictability by region, with orange indicating less predictable areas like Rapid City SD and purple indicating more predictable areas like Honolulu.

Maps 2014-12-04

How Predictable Is U.S. Severe Weather?

From Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? by Nate Silver, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Choropleth map of the US showing weather predictability by region, with purple indicating more predictable and orange indicating less predictable, based on 120 NWS stations from 1994-2013.

Maps 2014-12-04

How Predictable Is U.S. Weather?

From Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? by Nate Silver, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart comparing Phoenix daily high temperatures for 2011-2013 against the weekly average since 1994, showing a predictable seasonal curve peaking around 105°F in July.

Charts 2014-12-04

Phoenix's High Temperatures Are Predictable

From Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? by Nate Silver, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Choropleth map of the contiguous United States showing regional data with orange and purple shading indicating varying values by state or region.

Maps 2014-12-04

US Regional Map with Orange and Purple Shading

From Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? by Nate Silver, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Bar chart showing the distribution of height gaps in centimeters between men and women among 12,502 U.K. couples with babies born in 2000, titled Height Of Romance.

Charts 2014-12-04

Height Of Romance

From How Common Is It For A Man To Be Shorter Than His Partner? by Mona Chalabi

Density curves comparing male height distribution between U.S. men and OkCupid men, showing OkCupid men skew slightly taller.

Charts 2014-12-04

Male Height Distribution On OkCupid

From How Common Is It For A Man To Be Shorter Than His Partner? by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing global land mine casualties per year from 1999 to 2013 in thousands, with a general downward trend from about 9,300 to 3,300.

Charts 2014-12-04

Land Mine Casualties Per Year

From Land Mines Aren’t Killing As Many People As They Used To by Brittany Lyte

A $15 U.S. Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp featuring illustrated Hooded Mergansers, void after June 30, 2006.

Other 2014-12-04

Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp – Hooded Merganser $15

From Conservation Efforts Are Set To Get A Boost — Thanks To The Duck Stamp by Christie Aschwanden

Scatter plot showing complaints against police vs. felonies per 1,000 residents per year for 74 of 76 NYC precincts from 2008-2012, with Staten Island Precinct 120 highlighted in red.

Charts 2014-12-04

Complaints Against Police vs. Felonies By Precinct

From Minor Crimes Get Unusually High Attention In Eric Garner’s Neighborhood by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Scatter plot showing violations vs. felonies per 1,000 residents per year for 74 of 76 NYC precincts from 2008-2012, with Staten Island Precinct 120 highlighted in red.

Charts 2014-12-04

Violations vs. Felonies By Precinct

From Minor Crimes Get Unusually High Attention In Eric Garner’s Neighborhood by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Scatter plot comparing NFL teams by consistency vs. quality during weeks 1-14 of the 2014 season, with axes for average margin of victory and standard deviation.

Charts 2014-12-04

Consistency vs. Quality Of NFL Teams

From NFL Week 14 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight NFL Elo Playoff Odds table dated Dec. 4, 2014, showing Elo ratings, wins, losses, ties, point differential, and playoff probabilities for all 32 NFL teams.

Tables 2014-12-04

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Playoff Odds — Dec. 4, 2014

From NFL Week 14 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight NFL Elo Ratings table for Dec. 4, 2014, ranking all 32 teams by Elo rating with Elo change and rank change columns.

Tables 2014-12-04

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Ratings — Dec. 4, 2014

From NFL Week 14 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

Table of Week 14 NFL matchups showing home and visiting team Elo ratings, win percentages, and Elo point spreads for Dec. 4, 2014.

Tables 2014-12-04

Week 14 NFL Matchups According To Elo Ratings

From NFL Week 14 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

Line chart comparing expected points on first-and-10 by field position for the 2007 New England Patriots, 2013 Denver Broncos, and 2006-14 NFL average, with annotations showing punt value savings.

Charts 2014-12-05

2007 New England Patriots vs. 2013 Denver Broncos: Expected Points by Field Position

From Skeptical Football: Sizing Up The Inevitable Patriots-Packers Super Bowl by Benjamin Morris

Five line charts comparing expected points on first-and-10 by field position for the 2013 vs 2014 Denver Broncos offense and opponents' offense, with a combined cross-season comparison chart.

Charts 2014-12-05

2013 Denver Broncos vs. 2014 Denver Broncos Expected Points

From Skeptical Football: Sizing Up The Inevitable Patriots-Packers Super Bowl by Benjamin Morris

Line chart comparing expected points on first-and-10 by field position for the 2013 and 2014 Seattle Seahawks offense and opposing offenses versus the NFL average.

Charts 2014-12-05

2013 Seattle Seahawks vs. 2014 Seattle Seahawks

From Skeptical Football: Sizing Up The Inevitable Patriots-Packers Super Bowl by Benjamin Morris

Small multiples line chart showing 2014 NFL scoring curves for all 32 teams, plotting expected points on first-and-10 by field position for offense and opposing offenses.

Charts 2014-12-05

2014 NFL 'Scoring Curves'

From Skeptical Football: Sizing Up The Inevitable Patriots-Packers Super Bowl by Benjamin Morris

Line chart comparing expected points on first-and-10 by field position for the 2014 New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers offenses versus opposing offenses, with NFL average reference lines.

Charts 2014-12-05

2014 New England Patriots vs. Green Bay Packers Expected Points by Field Position

From Skeptical Football: Sizing Up The Inevitable Patriots-Packers Super Bowl by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NFL Week 13 kickers' contribution to team margin of victory versus points above expectation, with Novak highlighted as top performer and Folk as worst.

Charts 2014-12-05

NFL Week 13 Kicking MVP

From Skeptical Football: Sizing Up The Inevitable Patriots-Packers Super Bowl by Benjamin Morris

Table showing number of Supreme Court clerks and justices by law school, with Harvard leading at 432 clerks and 19 justices.

Tables 2014-12-05

Supreme Court Clerks and Justices by Law School

From The Most Conservative And Most Liberal Elite Law Schools by Oliver Roeder

Ridge/density plot showing distributions of justice ideology (Martin-Quinn score) for Supreme Court clerks by elite law school since 1937, ranging from liberal to conservative.

Charts 2014-12-05

The Wide-Ranging Politics Of Elite Law Schools

From The Most Conservative And Most Liberal Elite Law Schools by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing Celebrity DBI trust ratings for Bill Cosby, LeBron James, Tiger Woods, and Mel Gibson from January 2009 to November 2014.

Charts 2014-12-05

Celebrities' Trust Ratings

From Bill Cosby’s Fall From Among The Most-Trusted Celebrities To The Least by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted change in average weekly and hourly earnings from a year earlier, from 2008 to 2014, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Charts 2014-12-05

Change In Average Earnings From A Year Earlier

From November’s Jobs Report Crushed It by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted change in full-time and part-time employment during economic recovery from 2010 to 2014, with full-time rising sharply and part-time remaining near zero.

Charts 2014-12-05

Change In Employment During Recovery

From November’s Jobs Report Crushed It by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted job growth from a year earlier for private and total employment from 2011 to 2014, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Charts 2014-12-05

Job Growth From A Year Earlier

From November’s Jobs Report Crushed It by Ben Casselman

Bar chart with overlaid red line showing seasonally adjusted monthly job growth from 2013 to 2014, with a six-month rolling average trend line.

Charts 2014-12-05

Monthly Job Growth (Seasonally Adjusted)

From November’s Jobs Report Crushed It by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the seasonally adjusted share of part-time workers who are involuntary from 2006 to 2014, peaking around 34% in 2009 and declining to about 25% by 2014.

Charts 2014-12-05

Share Of Part-Timers Who Are Involuntary

From November’s Jobs Report Crushed It by Ben Casselman

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

Charts 2014-12-05

What The Unemployed Are Doing One Month Later

From November’s Jobs Report Crushed It by Ben Casselman

Three bar charts (C, D, E) showing wine liking, intensity, and liking without price across different price conditions and wine types.

Charts 2014-12-05

Wine Liking and Intensity by Price Condition (Charts C, D, E)

From The Best Holiday Shopping Partner: A Capuchin Monkey by Brittany Lyte

Table comparing FBS football programs by first year, win percentage, athletic revenues, expenses, subsidies, and average attendance for 2013.

Tables 2014-12-05

New FBS Programs: Athletic Financials and Football Attendance (2013)

From Why UAB’s Football Team Couldn’t Even Last 20 Years by David Goldenberg

Table listing the ten largest margins of defeat for incumbent U.S. senators, showing year, state, senator name and party, and margin of defeat in percentage points.

Tables 2014-12-05

Largest Margins of Defeat for Incumbent Senators

From Senate Forecast: Landrieu Headed Toward Historic Defeat In Louisiana Runoff by Harry Enten

Table ranking 17 tennis players by Facebook fans and share of fans from India, with Maria Sharapova first at 15 million fans.

Tables 2014-12-06

Tennis Players Ranked by Facebook Fans and Share From India

From Federer, Djokovic Set To Play For First Time In A Tennis Hotbed: India by Carl Bialik

Heat-map table showing College Football Playoff and National Championship odds for 9 schools based on 20,000 simulations as of Dec. 6, 2014.

Tables 2014-12-06

College Football Playoff And National Championship Odds

From College Football Playoff Update: Oregon Makes A Case For No. 1 by Nate Silver

Heat-map table showing College Football Playoff and National Championship odds for nine schools based on 10,000 simulations as of Dec. 3, 2014.

Tables 2014-12-06

College Football Playoff And National Championship Odds

From College Football Playoff Update: Oregon Makes A Case For No. 1 by Nate Silver

Heat-map table showing College Football Playoff and National Championship odds for 9 schools based on 20,000 simulations as of Dec. 6, 2014.

Tables 2014-12-06

College Football Playoff And National Championship Odds

From College Football Playoff Update: Is TCU A Lock? by Nate Silver

Color-coded table showing all 24 Women's World Cup 2015 teams organized by group (A-F) with FIFA rating and FIFA points for each team.

Tables 2014-12-06

Women's World Cup 2015 Teams By FIFA Rating in Each Group

From USA Draws The ‘Group Of Death’ In 2015 Women’s World Cup by Allison McCann

Heat-map table showing College Football Playoff and National Championship odds for nine schools based on 20,000 simulations as of Dec. 6, 2014.

Tables 2014-12-07

College Football Playoff And National Championship Odds

From College Football Playoff Update: Three Teams Are Fighting For The Last Spot by Nate Silver

Heat-map table showing College Football Playoff and National Championship odds for six teams based on 20,000 simulations as of Dec. 7, 2014.

Tables 2014-12-07

College Football Playoff And National Championship Odds

From FiveThirtyEight's Final College Football Playoff Forecast by Nate Silver

Heatmap table showing projected final College Football Playoff Selection Committee rankings for 35 schools based on 20,000 simulations as of Dec. 7, 2014.

Charts 2014-12-07

Projected Final College Football Playoff Selection Committee Rankings

From FiveThirtyEight's Final College Football Playoff Forecast by Nate Silver

Line chart showing percent of white Americans attributing Black poverty to lack of will (53% in 2008) or ability to learn (10% in 2008), from 1972 to 2008.

Charts 2014-12-07

Majority of whites still say blacks lack willpower

From Ctrl + ← Marriage, Divorce And White Progress by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing percentage of new marriages by spouse's relative age for men and women in first marriages versus remarriages, illustrating remarried men are more likely to wed a younger spouse.

Charts 2014-12-07

Remarried Men More Likely to Wed A Younger Spouse

From Ctrl + ← Marriage, Divorce And White Progress by Mona Chalabi

Grouped bar chart showing total survey responses from Agency Reports and FBI Reports for each year from 2007 to 2012.

Charts 2014-12-07

Total Survey Responses: Agency Reports vs FBI Reports 2007–2012

From Ctrl + ← Marriage, Divorce And White Progress by Mona Chalabi

Color-coded table showing College Football Championship odds for Oregon, Alabama, Ohio State, and Florida State based on 20,000 simulations as of Dec. 7, 2014.

Tables 2014-12-07

College Football Championship Odds

From College Football Playoff: Final Thoughts And National Championship Odds by Nate Silver

Two ranked lists showing the top 10 most left-leaning and most right-leaning phrases used by economists, based on political affiliation analysis.

Tables 2014-12-08

Most Left-Leaning vs. Most Right-Leaning Phrases Among Economists

From Economists Aren’t As Nonpartisan As We Think by Zubin Jelveh, Bruce Kogut, Suresh Naidu

Scatter plot showing Predicted Ideology on the y-axis versus Elasticity Normalized by Survey Paper on the x-axis, with a fitted regression line showing a positive relationship.

Charts 2014-12-08

Predicted Ideology vs. Elasticity Normalized by Survey Paper

From Economists Aren’t As Nonpartisan As We Think by Zubin Jelveh, Bruce Kogut, Suresh Naidu

Table showing max, average, and minimum percentages for the best, 2nd-best, and 3rd-best players in a dataset.

Tables 2014-12-08

Best, 2nd-Best, and 3rd-Best Player Statistics

From Does A Team Really Need A Star To Get To The NBA Finals? by Ian Levy

Table ranking NBA players by 2013-14 SPM percentile compared to the average best player on NBA Finals teams from 1994-2013, grouped by standard deviation from average.

Tables 2014-12-08

Who Could Be No. 1 On A Championship Team?

From Does A Team Really Need A Star To Get To The NBA Finals? by Ian Levy

College football playoff probability table showing wins, losses, points for/against per game, average team win percentage vs schedule, and playoff percentage for top teams.

Tables 2014-12-09

College Football Playoff Probabilities by Team

From The Final College Football Playoff Rankings Contradict History by Neil Paine

Histogram showing distribution of single-game receiving yardage in the 1989 NFL season for 2,961 cases, highlighting Flipper Anderson's outlier 336-yard game versus J. Taylor's 286 yards.

Charts 2014-12-09

How Much Of An Outlier Was Flipper?

From The Time A Guy Named Flipper Set The Single-Game NFL Receiving Record by Alan Siegel

Table ranking the top 10 single-game NFL receiving performances by Receiving DYAR, listing year, receiver, team, catches, yards, TDs, and Receiving DYAR.

Tables 2014-12-09

Top 10 Single-Game NFL Receiving Performances by Receiving DYAR

From The Time A Guy Named Flipper Set The Single-Game NFL Receiving Record by Alan Siegel

Line chart showing the percentage of Americans who say torture is justified from 2005 to 2011, with four response categories: Sometimes, Never, Often, and Rarely.

Charts 2014-12-09

Americans' Support For Torture

From Americans Have Grown More Supportive Of Torture by Brittany Lyte

Line chart showing the percentage of Republicans and Democrats who think torture can sometimes or often be justified, from 2004 to 2011.

Charts 2014-12-09

Support For Torture By Party

From Americans Have Grown More Supportive Of Torture by Brittany Lyte

Small multiples bar chart showing likelihood that NFL division winners will be determined by each tiebreaker, based on 50,000 simulations, for all eight divisions.

Charts 2014-12-10

NFL Divisional Tiebreaker Possibilities

From NFL Week 15 Playoff Implications: The Chances A Coin Flip Will Decide The Postseason by Mike Beuoy, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Color-coded table showing NFL game matchups with swing values and teams affected for playoffs, division, 1st-round bye, and top seed outcomes.

Tables 2014-12-10

NFL Game Importance: Playoffs, Division, 1st-Round Bye, Top Seed Swing Values

From NFL Week 15 Playoff Implications: The Chances A Coin Flip Will Decide The Postseason by Mike Beuoy, Reuben Fischer-Baum

NFL team playoff probability table showing generic points favored and chances of playoffs, winning division, first-round bye, and top seed for all 32 teams.

Tables 2014-12-10

NFL Playoff Chances by Team — Generic Points Favored

From NFL Week 15 Playoff Implications: The Chances A Coin Flip Will Decide The Postseason by Mike Beuoy, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Horizontal bar chart showing the chance each tiebreaker determines a wild card spot in the AFC and NFC, based on 50,000 season simulations.

Charts 2014-12-10

Wild Card Tiebreaker Possibilities

From NFL Week 15 Playoff Implications: The Chances A Coin Flip Will Decide The Postseason by Mike Beuoy, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart comparing net international migration projections from 2008, 2012, and 2014 Census Bureau estimates through 2050.

Charts 2014-12-10

Immigration Projections Revised Up In 2014

From Immigration Projections Rebound With The Economy by Andrew Flowers

Horizontal bar chart showing home types as a percentage of all housing units in 2013, with owner-occupied with mortgage at 35.8% being the largest category.

Charts 2014-12-11

Home Types As a Percentage of All Housing Units, 2013

From How Many Homeowners Have Paid Off Their Mortgages? by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing housing debt as a percentage of property value in 2013, with the 60-79% range having the highest share at 24.6%.

Charts 2014-12-11

Housing Debt As a percentage of property value, 2013

From How Many Homeowners Have Paid Off Their Mortgages? by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing mortgage status of American homes by age of householder in 2013, comparing millions with and without a mortgage.

Charts 2014-12-11

Mortgage Status Of American Homes

From How Many Homeowners Have Paid Off Their Mortgages? by Mona Chalabi

Dot plot showing average class size in U.S. schools by state for elementary and secondary levels in 2011-12, with state abbreviations plotted along a numeric axis.

Charts 2014-12-11

Class Size In U.S. Schools By State, 2011–12

From Should States Spend Billions To Reduce Class Sizes? by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

FiveThirtyEight NFL Elo Playoff Odds table for all 32 teams as of Dec. 11, 2014, showing Elo rating, wins, losses, ties, point differential, and playoff probability columns.

Tables 2014-12-11

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Playoff Odds — Dec. 11, 2014

From Week 15 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight NFL Elo ratings table for Dec. 11, 2014, ranking all 32 teams with Elo rating, Elo change, and rank change columns.

Tables 2014-12-11

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Ratings — Dec. 11, 2014

From Week 15 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

Table showing the top four NFL teams by FiveThirtyEight Elo ratings week by week for weeks 1-15, with Seattle highlighted throughout.

Tables 2014-12-11

The Seahawks Have Always Soared — Top Four NFL Elo Ratings Week by Week

From Week 15 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

Table showing Week 15 NFL matchups for Dec. 11, 2014, with Elo ratings, win percentages, favored teams, and point spreads for each game.

Tables 2014-12-11

Week 15 NFL Matchups According To Elo Ratings

From Week 15 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds by Nate Silver

Table showing presidential approval ratings at midterm points versus before the next election, with the change in percentage points, for years 1938 to 2006.

Tables 2014-12-11

Presidential Approval Rating at Midterm vs. Before Next Election

From Obama Is Unpopular, And That’s Unlikely To Change by Harry Enten

Table of college football teams with their peak Elo ratings, dates achieved, and most recent results, listing 24 entries from 1988 to 2013.

Tables 2014-12-11

College Football Peak Ratings by Year and Team

From The Most Talented College Football Team In History by Neil Paine

Table ranking college football teams by talent score, showing team, year, and draft pick counts at Draft+1 through Draft+4 intervals.

Tables 2014-12-11

College Football Teams Ranked by Talent Score

From The Most Talented College Football Team In History by Neil Paine

Two-panel line chart showing media mentions of gun control spiking after Sandy Hook and public opinion trends on gun control vs gun rights from 2012 to 2014.

Charts 2014-12-11

Gun Control: Media Mentions And Public Opinion

From Support For Gun Control Slips As Media Loses Interest by Harry Enten

Line chart showing support for stricter gun laws from 1990 to 2015 across four pollsters, highlighting bumps after Columbine and Newtown shootings.

Charts 2014-12-11

Support For Stricter Gun Laws: Newtown Bump Subsides

From Support For Gun Control Slips As Media Loses Interest by Harry Enten

Bar chart showing the aggregate number of iHeartMedia holiday-format radio stations from November 2 to December 7, rising from about 6 to over 180.

Charts 2014-12-12

Flipping The Switch To Christmas Radio

From Of Course You Hear What I Hear — Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven by Walt Hickey

Bar chart showing daily Spotify streams of All I Want For Christmas Is You and White Christmas rising steadily from about 4k on Nov 2 to over 60k by Dec 7.

Charts 2014-12-12

Steady Increase In Christmas Streams On Spotify

From Of Course You Hear What I Hear — Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven by Walt Hickey

Ranked table of top 10 Christmas songs by percentage of all plays, listing song title, artist, and play percentage.

Tables 2014-12-12

Top 10 Christmas Songs by Percentage of All Plays

From Of Course You Hear What I Hear — Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven by Walt Hickey

Ranked table of the top 20 most-played Christmas songs on radio, showing each song's percentage of total radio plays, led by Sleigh Ride at 4.9%.

Tables 2014-12-12

Top 20 Christmas Songs by Percentage of Radio Plays

From Of Course You Hear What I Hear — Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven by Walt Hickey

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