fivethirtyeightindex

Explore 38,954 articles, datasets, podcasts, graphics and illustrations from fivethirtyeight.com

2015 graphics

2,264 matches

Line chart showing percentage of respondents likely to make a New Year's resolution versus those who failed to keep one, from 1994 to 2014.

Charts 2015-01-01

Auld Lang Syne Of Failure

From How Fast You’ll Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions by Mona Chalabi

Google Trends screenshot comparing search interest over time for 'diet' (blue) and 'gym' (red) from 2004 to 2015, showing seasonal spikes and a forecast.

Charts 2015-01-01

Google Trends: 'diet' vs 'gym' Search Interest Over Time

From How Fast You’ll Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing the most common New Year's resolutions among 1,140 U.S. adults surveyed in December 2014, with lose weight at 13% being the top resolution.

Charts 2015-01-01

Most Common New Year's Resolutions

From How Fast You’ll Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing New Year's resolution success rates at two weeks (71%), one month (64%), and six months (46%) among 159 resolution-makers in 2002.

Charts 2015-01-01

New Year's Resolution Success Rates

From How Fast You’ll Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing the share of adults ages 16 and up working or looking for work, seasonally adjusted, from 1970 to around 2014, peaking near 67% around 2000 then declining sharply.

Charts 2015-01-01

Share Of Adults Working Or Looking For Work

From 2015 Will Be The True Test Of The Economic Recovery by Ben Casselman

Line chart comparing actual U.S. GDP from 2000 to 2014 against the prerecession trend, showing the economy has not recovered lost ground.

Charts 2015-01-01

The Economy Isn't Making Up Lost Ground

From 2015 Will Be The True Test Of The Economic Recovery by Ben Casselman

Two-panel chart showing U.S. GDP annualized growth rate as a bar chart and U.S. unemployment rate as a line chart, both seasonally adjusted from 2008 to 2014.

Charts 2015-01-01

U.S. Gross Domestic Product and Unemployment Rate (2008–2014)

From 2015 Will Be The True Test Of The Economic Recovery by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted unemployed workers per job opening from 2007 to 2014, peaking near 6.8 around 2009 and declining to about 1.9 by late 2014.

Charts 2015-01-01

Unemployed Workers Per Job Opening

From 2015 Will Be The True Test Of The Economic Recovery by Ben Casselman

Two-part statistical table comparing Andrew Wiggins to other 19-year-old NBA rookies through their first 30 career games, showing averages per 36 minutes and color-coded rankings among 15 players.

Tables 2015-01-01

How Wiggins Compares Through 30 Games

From Assessing Andrew Wiggins, 30 Games In by Nate Silver

Horizontal bar chart comparing carbon footprints in equivalent kg CO2: a Denver-NYC round-trip flight (1,990), driving 7,500 miles (2,000), India per capita emissions (1,400), and a refrigerator for a year (100).

Charts 2015-01-02

How A Flight's Carbon Footprint Compares

From Every Time You Fly, You Trash The Planet — And There’s No Easy Fix by Christie Aschwanden

Line and shaded area chart showing international aviation CO2 emissions projections from 2005 to 2055, comparing a 2% per year goal line against a Tech and Ops scenario range.

Charts 2015-01-02

International Aviation CO2 Emissions: Tech & Ops vs. 2% Per Year Goal

From Every Time You Fly, You Trash The Planet — And There’s No Easy Fix by Christie Aschwanden

Color-coded table comparing Super Bowl winner ELO ratings, average ranks, and percentage of No. 1 seeds across preseason, regular season, and after Super Bowl for NFL playoff formats with 2 to 32 teams.

Tables 2015-01-03

NFL Playoff Format Comparison: Super Bowl Winner ELO by Number of Teams

From The NFL Should Let 14 Teams In The Playoffs Instead Of Just 12 by Neil Paine

Step line chart titled 'A Lull in Cases' showing weekly Ebola new case counts for Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone from January through May, with an annotation noting a decline in late April.

Charts 2015-01-04

A Lull in Cases — Ebola New Cases by Country Jan–May

From Ctrl + ← Millennials’ Money, Motors And Mature Love by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing calories in a small cheeseburger at three fast-food chain restaurants from 1996 to 2013, with a note that Chain A has 1.8% fewer calories than in 1996.

Charts 2015-01-04

Fast-Food: The Calories in a Small Cheeseburger at Three Chain Restaurants

From Ctrl + ← Millennials’ Money, Motors And Mature Love by Mona Chalabi

A grid of multiple small waffle or dot-matrix charts arranged in rows and columns, each showing colored proportional data with labels, in various color schemes.

Charts 2015-01-04

Grid of small waffle charts with colored dot-matrix data visualizations

From Ctrl + ← Millennials’ Money, Motors And Mature Love by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot showing popular Bible verses by day in 2014 on Bible Gateway, with colored dots representing books grouped by category across the calendar year.

Charts 2015-01-04

Popular Bible Verses by Day in 2014 on Bible Gateway

From Ctrl + ← Millennials’ Money, Motors And Mature Love by Mona Chalabi

Donut chart infographic showing percentages of sexual activity in the past year among Americans aged 50+, broken down by male and female across five activity types.

Charts 2015-01-04

Sexual Activity Within The Past Year Among Americans Aged 50+

From Ctrl + ← Millennials’ Money, Motors And Mature Love by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing average excess death rate on birthdays by age group, with ages 20-29 having the highest rate at 25.39.

Charts 2015-01-04

When birthdays turn deadly

From Ctrl + ← Millennials’ Money, Motors And Mature Love by Mona Chalabi

Yellow-tinted popcorn photo overlaid with large white text displaying $9.69 billion, likely representing US box office revenue.

Other 2015-01-05

$9.69 Billion Box Office Infographic

From Significant Digits for Monday, Jan. 5, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Horizontal diverging bar chart showing racial representation on police forces in US cities, with underrepresented Asian, Hispanic, and Black officers versus overrepresented White officers, ranked by dispersion index.

Charts 2015-01-05

Representation on Police Force by City (Dispersion Index)

From Lessons For Ferguson In Creating A Diverse Police Department by Batya Ungar-Sargon

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 2015-01-05

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

From Lessons For Ferguson In Creating A Diverse Police Department by Batya Ungar-Sargon

S-curve chart showing probability of winning an NFL game by ANY/A differential, with annotations for Lindley actual, Lindley predicted, and Palmer predicted values.

Charts 2015-01-05

Win The Passing Battle, Win The Game

From How Much Did Having Ryan Lindley At QB Cost The Arizona Cardinals? by Neil Paine

Line chart showing observed vs projected glioma rates per 100,000 people per year, comparing Swedish study and Interphone study projections with error bars.

Charts 2015-01-06

Glioma Overall: Observed vs. Projected Rates

From Cellphones Do Not Give You Brain Cancer by Emily Oster

Green-tinted editorial graphic with large white text reading 10% of clients, overlaid on a photo of hands typing on a keyboard.

Other 2015-01-06

10% Of Clients

From Significant Digits for Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot comparing actual vs. predicted Baseball Hall of Fame vote percentages from BBHoFTracker.com for 2009-14, with Lee Smith 2013 and Tim Raines 2009 labeled as outliers.

Charts 2015-01-06

Predicting Baseball's Hall Of Fame Voting

From How The Web Is Predicting Baseball’s Hall Of Fame Voting by Neil Paine

Two tables showing majority party support for House Speaker and minority party support for Minority Leader from the 102nd to 114th Congress, with share of party vote and opposition counts shown as colored bars.

Tables 2015-01-06

Majority Party Support For House Speaker / Minority Party Support For Minority Leader

From The Performance Art Of Voting Against Boehner by Harry Enten

Choropleth map of New York City neighborhoods shaded in green and orange tones, likely showing demographic or voting data by census tract or neighborhood.

Maps 2015-01-06

New York City Choropleth Map

From The Performance Art Of Voting Against Boehner by Harry Enten

Dot plot comparing conservatism scores of GOP presidential candidates based on fundraising, congressional voting records, and public issue statements, ranging from less to more conservative.

Charts 2015-01-07

How Conservative Are GOP Presidential Candidates?

From Chris Christie’s Chances Are Overrated by Nate Silver

Scatter plot showing 2016 Republican presidential candidates' net favorability vs. familiarity ratings among Republicans and leaners, sourced from Gallup.

Charts 2015-01-07

Potential 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates: Favorability and Familiarity Ratings

From Chris Christie’s Chances Are Overrated by Nate Silver

Purple-tinted close-up of a man's face overlaid with large white text reading '2 YEARS', used as an editorial graphic.

Other 2015-01-07

2 Years

From Significant Digits for Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 by Walt Hickey

NBA bench unit rankings table showing games played, minutes played, RPM, and WAR for 13 teams plus the New York Knicks overall.

Tables 2015-01-07

NBA Bench Units: Games Played, Minutes, RPM, and WAR

From 13 NBA Teams Have Benches Better Than The Knicks by Neil Paine

Dot plot showing the percentage of oil, gas, and coal reserves that must stay unburned by region to limit global warming to 2°C by 2050 without carbon capture.

Charts 2015-01-07

How Much Fuel Needs To Stay Unburned?

From How Much Fuel We Need To Leave Buried To Beat Climate Change by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart showing U.S. party identification including independent leanings as annual averages from Gallup polls 1991 to 2014, comparing Republican and Democrat percentages.

Charts 2015-01-07

U.S. Party Identification (Including Independent Leanings), Annual Averages, Gallup Polls, 1991-2014

From Americans Aren’t Becoming More Politically Independent, They Just Like Saying They Are by Harry Enten

Table showing the lowest-rated board game by decade from the 1910s to 2010s, with number of ratings and average rating for each game.

Tables 2015-01-08

Lowest-Rated Board Game by Decade

From The Worst Board Games Ever Invented by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot showing average user ratings vs number of ratings (log scale) for 15,925 board games, with Monopoly, Candy Land, and other classic games labeled at low ratings.

Charts 2015-01-08

The Worst Games Ever Made

From The Worst Board Games Ever Invented by Oliver Roeder

Dot plot showing when presidential candidates announced their runs relative to the Iowa caucus, for primaries with no incumbents since 1972, with Democrats in blue and Republicans in red.

Charts 2015-01-08

When The Candidate Pool Becomes Half Full

From 2016 Is Here by Harry Enten

Scatter plot showing ICAO safety ratings vs. annual air passengers on a log scale for countries worldwide, with S. Korea, U.S., and Indonesia highlighted.

Charts 2015-01-08

Safety And Air Traffic

From Downed AirAsia Flight Took Off From The Worst Major Country For Air Safety Oversight by Carl Bialik

Scatter plot showing ICAO safety ratings vs. annual air passengers on a log scale, with a red trend line and labeled points for S. Korea, U.S., and Indonesia.

Charts 2015-01-08

Safety And Air Traffic

From Downed AirAsia Flight Took Off From The Worst Major Country For Air Safety Oversight by Carl Bialik

Editorial graphic with large white text reading 1,200 Potential Jurors overlaid on a yellow-tinted portrait photo.

Other 2015-01-08

1,200 Potential Jurors

From Significant Digits for Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Four scatter plots showing regular-season and postseason winning percentages for NFL playoff teams without byes against teams with byes, 1994-2013, with best-fit trend lines.

Charts 2015-01-08

'Trial By Fire' Is About More Than Just Parity

From Skeptical Football: The Playoffs Are A Trial By Fire by Benjamin Morris

Dot chart showing NFL postseason wins and losses for teams without byes against teams with byes, by round, from 1994 to 2013, with blue dots for wins and red dots for losses.

Charts 2015-01-08

Trial By Fire In The NFL Postseason

From Skeptical Football: The Playoffs Are A Trial By Fire by Benjamin Morris

Table listing Back to the Future items by number of posts, with hover board at 16 and self-lacing shoes, flying car, and others following.

Tables 2015-01-08

Back to the Future Items by Number of Posts

From Enough With All The ‘Back To The Future Part II’ Appraisals by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing monthly average regular gasoline retail price per gallon from the late 1970s to 2015, rising from under $1 to over $4 at peak.

Charts 2015-01-08

Gasoline Got More Expensive, But It's Not $8.37

From Enough With All The ‘Back To The Future Part II’ Appraisals by Walt Hickey

Tables 2015-01-09

Cider Brand Dollar Sales and Market Share, Nov. 2013-14

From Hard Cider Is Having A Moment by Jonah Keri

Table showing dollar sales and share of beer sales by product category for Nov. 2013-14 with year-over-year changes.

Tables 2015-01-09

Dollar Sales and Share of Beer Sales by Product Category

From Hard Cider Is Having A Moment by Jonah Keri

Yellow-tinted editorial graphic showing a wedding cake topper figurine alongside large white text reading 42 Million People.

Other 2015-01-09

42 Million People — Wedding Infographic

From Significant Digits for Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 by Walt Hickey

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

Charts 2015-01-09

Change In Employment During The Recovery

From 2014 Was The Best Year For Jobs Since 1999 by Ben Casselman

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

Charts 2015-01-09

Job Growth From A Year Earlier

From 2014 Was The Best Year For Jobs Since 1999 by Ben Casselman

Bar and line chart showing seasonally adjusted monthly job growth from 2013 to 2014, with a red line indicating the six-month average, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Charts 2015-01-09

Monthly Job Growth (Seasonally Adjusted)

From 2014 Was The Best Year For Jobs Since 1999 by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the share of adults ages 16 and older working or looking for work from 1960 to around 2014, seasonally adjusted, peaking near 67% around 2000 then declining.

Charts 2015-01-09

Share Of Adults Working Or Looking For Work

From 2014 Was The Best Year For Jobs Since 1999 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 2015-01-09

What The Unemployed Are Doing One Month Later

From 2014 Was The Best Year For Jobs Since 1999 by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the share of recent high school graduates enrolled at two-year colleges from 1994 to 2013, with a notable drop in 2013.

Charts 2015-01-09

Community College Enrollment Tumbled In 2013

From Obama’s Plan For Free Community College Could See Some Competition by Andrew Flowers

Table showing Super Bowl winners' Elo ratings and rankings before and after the Super Bowl from 1970 to 2013.

Tables 2015-01-09

Elo Is Simpatico With The Super Bowl

From Week 19 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds: Divisional Round Edition by Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight NFL Elo Playoff Odds table from Jan. 9, 2015 showing eight teams with their Elo ratings and probabilities of reaching the conference title game, Super Bowl, and winning the Super Bowl.

Tables 2015-01-09

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Playoff Odds — Jan. 9, 2015

From Week 19 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds: Divisional Round Edition by Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight NFL Elo Ratings table for Jan. 9, 2015, ranking all 32 teams by Elo rating with Elo change and rank change columns.

Tables 2015-01-09

FiveThirtyEight's NFL Elo Ratings — Jan. 9, 2015

From Week 19 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds: Divisional Round Edition by Nate Silver

Table showing NFL Divisional Matchups with Elo ratings, win percentages, and point spreads for four games featuring New England, Seattle, Green Bay, and Denver as home teams.

Tables 2015-01-09

NFL Divisional Matchups According to Elo Ratings

From Week 19 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds: Divisional Round Edition by Nate Silver

Side-by-side county-level choropleth maps of the Utah region comparing data for Women and Men, with counties shaded in orange and purple hues.

Maps 2015-01-11

County-Level Maps of Utah Region by Gender

From Ctrl + ← Procrastination, Construction Workers And Turning 30 by Mona Chalabi

Ranked list chart showing the top 10 occupations most likely to be divorced across seven decades from 1950 to 2010, with colored boxes and connecting lines.

Charts 2015-01-11

Divorced from Your Job Somebody Else — Occupations Most Likely to Be Divorced

From Ctrl + ← Procrastination, Construction Workers And Turning 30 by Mona Chalabi

Dual-axis line chart comparing intended vs. actual reading progress of Crime and Punishment from late November to late December 2014, with daily pages read shown as a bar-like line.

Charts 2015-01-11

Intended vs. Actual Reading Progress of Crime and Punishment

From Ctrl + ← Procrastination, Construction Workers And Turning 30 by Mona Chalabi

Table ranking countries by social mobility percentiles from 5th to 50th, listing nations like Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, and the US across multiple columns.

Tables 2015-01-11

Social Mobility Rankings by Percentile (5th through 50th)

From Ctrl + ← Procrastination, Construction Workers And Turning 30 by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing NAEP math score improvement from 1978 to 2012 by race (White, Black, Hispanic, Overall) across three age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds, and 17-year-olds.

Charts 2015-01-12

NAEP Math Score Improvement, 1978-2012

From Black And Hispanic Students Are Making Meaningful Gains, But It’s Hard To Tell by Mikhail Zinshteyn

Dual line charts showing NAEP math score improvement from 1996 to 2012 for 4th and 8th grade students by economic status: not eligible, overall, and eligible for free/reduced lunch.

Charts 2015-01-12

NAEP Math Score Improvement, 1996-2012

From Black And Hispanic Students Are Making Meaningful Gains, But It’s Hard To Tell by Mikhail Zinshteyn

Line chart showing NAEP reading score improvement from 1975 to 2012 by race (White, Hispanic, Black, Overall) across three age groups: 9, 13, and 17-year-olds.

Charts 2015-01-12

NAEP Reading Score Improvement, 1975-2012

From Black And Hispanic Students Are Making Meaningful Gains, But It’s Hard To Tell by Mikhail Zinshteyn

Line chart showing NAEP reading score improvement from 1998 to 2012 by grade level (4th, 8th, 12th) and economic status (not eligible, overall, eligible for free/reduced lunch).

Charts 2015-01-12

NAEP Reading Score Improvement, 1998-2012

From Black And Hispanic Students Are Making Meaningful Gains, But It’s Hard To Tell by Mikhail Zinshteyn

Cropped line chart showing four colored trend lines (blue, gray, green, yellow) with the label Overall visible in the center.

Charts 2015-01-12

Overall — Multi-line trend chart

From Black And Hispanic Students Are Making Meaningful Gains, But It’s Hard To Tell by Mikhail Zinshteyn

Bold text infographic over a yellow-tinted photo of cars stating 16.5 million new cars.

Other 2015-01-12

16.5 Million New Cars

From Significant Digits For Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Table showing Peyton Manning's postseason record with win probabilities based on Elo rating and replacement-level QB, plus actual results, from 1999 to 2014.

Tables 2015-01-12

Peyton Manning's Postseason Record

From The Most Clutch Postseason Quarterback Of All Time Is Eli Manning by Nate Silver

Table ranking 180 postseason quarterbacks since 1970 by Elo-based performance, showing actual record, projected record, and probability of achieving actual record by chance.

Tables 2015-01-12

Postseason QB Performance Relative To Elo Ratings

From The Most Clutch Postseason Quarterback Of All Time Is Eli Manning by Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight table ranking 180 postseason QBs since 1970 by performance relative to replacement level, showing actual record, projected replacement-level record, and probability of achieving actual record by chance.

Tables 2015-01-12

Postseason QB Performance Relative To Replacement Level

From The Most Clutch Postseason Quarterback Of All Time Is Eli Manning by Nate Silver

Table showing Oscar precursor awards with their type, success rate, weight, and this year's winner for predicting Best Picture.

Tables 2015-01-12

Oscar Precursor Awards: Success Rate, Weight, and This Year's Winner

From Do The Golden Globes Predict The Oscars? by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing personality prediction accuracy by number of Facebook Likes compared to human judges, with the computer five-trait average surpassing humans at around 100 likes.

Charts 2015-01-12

Computers' vs. Humans' Accuracy Predicting Personality from Facebook Likes

From This Algorithm Knows You Better Than Your Facebook Friends Do by Christie Aschwanden

A table mapping personality traits across five dimensions (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism) to liberal-vs-conservative or other polar opposites using Facebook likes.

Tables 2015-01-12

Personality Traits Mapped to Facebook Likes Across Five Dimensions

From This Algorithm Knows You Better Than Your Facebook Friends Do by Christie Aschwanden

Ranked table of films by number of mentions, with The Notebook at 83 mentions topping the list, followed by Titanic and Saving Private Ryan.

Tables 2015-01-12

Most-Mentioned Cry-Worthy Films by Mentions

From Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry? by Walt Hickey

Diverging bar chart comparing percentages of female and male survey respondents who cried at various film genres, from a Jan. 5, 2015 SurveyMonkey poll of 665 people.

Charts 2015-01-12

What Film Genres Have Made You Cry?

From Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry? by Walt Hickey

Yellow-tinted editorial graphic showing a smiling man with glasses alongside large text reading 238 Days.

Other 2015-01-13

238 Days

From Significant Digits For Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing change in weekly hours since December 2007 for low-wage, mid-wage, and high-wage sectors, seasonally adjusted and excluding managers, from 2008 to 2014.

Charts 2015-01-13

Change In Weekly Hours Since December 2007

From Yes, Some Companies Are Cutting Hours In Response To ‘Obamacare’ by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing share of part-time workers working 25-29 hours versus 31-34 hours per week as a six-month moving average from 2009 to 2014.

Charts 2015-01-13

Part-Time Employees By Hours Worked

From Yes, Some Companies Are Cutting Hours In Response To ‘Obamacare’ by Ben Casselman

Stacked area chart showing seasonally adjusted part-time workers from 2006 to 2014, split between those voluntarily part-time and those who want to work full-time.

Charts 2015-01-13

Part-Time Workers (Seasonally Adjusted)

From Yes, Some Companies Are Cutting Hours In Response To ‘Obamacare’ by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted unemployed workers per job opening from 2001 to 2014, peaking near 6.8 around 2009-2010 and declining to about 2 by 2014.

Charts 2015-01-13

Unemployed Workers Per Job Opening

From There Are More Jobs For Fewer Workers, So Why Aren’t Wages Rising? by Ben Casselman

Bold text over a purple-tinted elephant image stating 73% of Republican Caucus, used as a data-driven editorial graphic.

Other 2015-01-14

73% Of Republican Caucus

From Significant Digits For Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing total recorded acts and threats of antisemitism, racism, xenophobia, and anti-Muslim racism in France per year from 1992 to 2013, with a trend line.

Charts 2015-01-14

Nombre total des actes et menaces recensés par année (1992–2013)

From France Has A History Of Anti-Semitism And Islamophobia by Mona Chalabi

FiveThirtyEight table showing Democratic 2016 presidential candidates ranked by percentage of polls, number of events, and statement score as of January 14, 2015.

Tables 2015-01-14

Signs Of A 2016 Run: The Democrats

From Looking For Clues: Who Is Going To Run For President In 2016? by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight infographic showing Republican 2016 presidential run indicators for 17 candidates including poll percentages, number of events, and statement scores as of Jan. 14, 2015.

Other 2015-01-14

Signs Of A 2016 Run: The Republicans

From Looking For Clues: Who Is Going To Run For President In 2016? by Harry Enten

Scatter plot showing final Elo rating vs. change in Elo rating for college football teams 1982-2014, with Ohio State 2014 and Florida 2008 highlighted as outliers in the upper right.

Charts 2015-01-14

Ohio State Is An Outlier

From Ohio State’s Season Was A Crazy Outlier by Andrew Flowers

Line chart comparing Denver Broncos offensive points per drive for the nth best game of the regular season in 2014 with Manning versus 2011 without Manning.

Charts 2015-01-14

Denver Broncos Offense, 2014 vs. 2011

From Peyton Manning Isn’t Finished by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing Peyton Manning's points per drive by game in 2014, with wins in green and losses in red, plus a rolling average line.

Charts 2015-01-14

Peyton Manning's 2014 Second-Half 'Decline'

From Peyton Manning Isn’t Finished by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing Peyton Manning's Total QBR by game during the 2014 season, with wins in green and losses in red, plus a rolling average line trending downward.

Charts 2015-01-14

Peyton Manning's 2014 Second-Half 'Decline'

From Peyton Manning Isn’t Finished by Benjamin Morris

Cropped line chart showing two labeled trend lines for "Debt" in orange and "Deficit" in teal, both trending downward over time.

Charts 2015-01-15

"Debt" vs. "Deficit" line chart

From Significant Digits For Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Silhouette size comparison of two long-necked sauropod dinosaurs, one teal and one dark gray, shown overlapping against a light grid background.

Other 2015-01-15

Sauropod Dinosaur Size Comparison

From How Many Americans Have Never Shot A Gun? by Mona Chalabi

Two line charts from Pew Research Center showing gun ownership survey trends from 1970 to 2010 using General Social Survey and Gallup data.

Charts 2015-01-15

Survey Trends in Gun Ownership Rates

From How Many Americans Have Never Shot A Gun? by Mona Chalabi

Cartogram map of the United States with each state represented as a tilted square colored blue or pink/red, labeled with two-letter state abbreviations.

Maps 2015-01-15

US States Cartogram — Blue vs. Red

From How Many Americans Have Never Shot A Gun? by Mona Chalabi

Horizontal bar chart showing Hollywood Stock Exchange closing prices for Best Picture Oscar contenders, led by American Sniper at H$11.31.

Charts 2015-01-15

The Best Picture Betting Market

From Betting Markets (Mostly) Nailed The Oscar Nominations by Walt Hickey

Color-coded grid showing AP poll rankings before bowl games from 1998 to 2014, illustrating which teams would qualify in a larger CFB playoff by tier, conference, and ranking.

Charts 2015-01-15

In A Larger CFB Playoff, Who Gets In?

From Expand The College Football Playoff by Nate Silver

Color-coded table showing the chance of various college football team groups making a hypothetical playoff under different bracket sizes (2, 4, 6, 8, or 8 with auto bids) from 1998 to 2014.

Tables 2015-01-15

Would Having A Larger Playoff Help?

From Expand The College Football Playoff by Nate Silver

Pixel-area chart breaking down 123,308 climbing routes by difficulty and length, showing the Dawn Wall among only 2 routes rated 5.14a+ with 30+ pitches.

Charts 2015-01-15

The Dawn Wall Stands (Nearly) Alone

From The Dawn Wall Really Is The Hardest Climb In The World by Reuben Fischer-Baum

FiveThirtyEight infographic classifying NFL quarterbacks into 10 groups based on ESPN QBR distributions, with photos and QBR curve shapes for each group.

Other 2015-01-16

A Taxonomy Of QBs

From The 10 Types Of NFL Quarterback by Noah Davis, Michael Lopez

Showing 96 of 2,264