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September 2015 graphics

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Line chart showing yearly defensive SRS for the Detroit Lions from 2001 to 2014, mostly negative until a sharp rise in 2014.

Charts 2015-09-01

There's (Usually) No 'D' In Detroit

From 2015 NFL Preview: What To Expect If You’re A Packers, Lions, Vikings Or Bears Fan by Chase Stuart

Line chart showing the rolling two-year average defensive SRS for the Chicago Bears from 1921 to 2014, with 2014 marked as the historic low.

Charts 2015-09-01

Worst. Bears Defense. Ever.

From 2015 NFL Preview: What To Expect If You’re A Packers, Lions, Vikings Or Bears Fan by Chase Stuart

Purple-tinted editorial graphic showing a man with glasses overlaid with large white text reading '1 Paid Staffer', indicating a campaign staffing statistic.

Other 2015-09-01

1 Paid Staffer

From Significant Digits For Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing median age at first marriage for men and women in the US from 1890 to 2010, with men consistently older than women and both rising sharply after 1960.

Charts 2015-09-01

Figure 1. Median Age at First Marriage by Sex: 1890 to 2010

From When Will Everyone I Know Be Married? by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing the share of U.S. men married at each age for years 1940, 1960, 1980, 2001, and 2013, with 2013 shown in blue and earlier years in gray.

Charts 2015-09-01

Married Men: Share of U.S. men married at each age in each year

From When Will Everyone I Know Be Married? by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing the share of U.S. women married at each age for years 1940, 1960, 1980, 2001, and 2013, with 2013 highlighted in purple showing lower marriage rates.

Charts 2015-09-01

Married Women: Share of U.S. women married at each age in each year

From When Will Everyone I Know Be Married? by Mona Chalabi

Line chart showing the share of American men and women who are married by age in 2013, with both sexes peaking around age 35 before diverging sharply in older age groups.

Charts 2015-09-01

Share Of Americans Who Are Married, By Age (2013)

From When Will Everyone I Know Be Married? by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot comparing receiving yards vs. rushing yards per game from running backs and fullbacks by NFL team in 2014, highlighting Carolina Panthers.

Charts 2015-09-02

Did Carolina's Expensive RBs Contribute In 2014?

From 2015 NFL Preview: How The Salary Cap Is Shaping The Falcons, Saints, Panthers and Buccaneers by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Dot-plot style chart ranking QBs by adjusted net yards per attempt from 1990-2014, highlighting Matt Ryan, Drew Brees, and Super Bowl winners each season.

Charts 2015-09-02

Is Matt Ryan #Elite Enough To Win It All?

From 2015 NFL Preview: How The Salary Cap Is Shaping The Falcons, Saints, Panthers and Buccaneers by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Dot plot showing 2015 NFL salary cap spending by position, highlighting G. McCoy of Tampa Bay as the top-paid defensive tackle at around $13 million.

Charts 2015-09-02

McCoy Stands Alone Among Defensive Tackles

From 2015 NFL Preview: How The Salary Cap Is Shaping The Falcons, Saints, Panthers and Buccaneers by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Two scatter plots comparing QB performance before and after age 36, showing adjusted net yards per attempt and interception rate for QBs with 500+ passing attempts in both periods.

Charts 2015-09-02

What Can We Expect From An Aging Drew Brees?

From 2015 NFL Preview: How The Salary Cap Is Shaping The Falcons, Saints, Panthers and Buccaneers by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Number-driven editorial graphic showing 14,300 McDonald's locations overlaid on a yellow-tinted photo of a McDonald's burger.

Other 2015-09-02

14,300 McDonald's

From Significant Digits For Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot with trend line showing average points relative to expectation for rookie NFL kickers with at least 20 attempts from 1993 to 2014, with Chandler Catanzaro highlighted in red.

Charts 2015-09-03

Chandler Catanzaro Is The New Normal

From 2015 NFL Preview: Everything You Need To Know About The Seahawks, Cardinals, Rams And 49ers by Benjamin Morris

Line chart comparing NFL kickers Janikowski and Dawson on points relative to expectation per field-goal attempt from 1999 to 2014, with an NFL trend line.

Charts 2015-09-03

Dawson Is Janikowski Without The Drama

From 2015 NFL Preview: Everything You Need To Know About The Seahawks, Cardinals, Rams And 49ers by Benjamin Morris

Four scatter plots showing Steven Hauschka's made and missed field goals from 2011 to 2014 by distance, quarter, and score differential, with green dots for makes and red for misses.

Charts 2015-09-03

Is Steven Hauschka Clutch?

From 2015 NFL Preview: Everything You Need To Know About The Seahawks, Cardinals, Rams And 49ers by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing NFC West kickers' points relative to expectation per field goal attempt from 1996 to 2014, highlighting Dawson, Hauschka, Zuerlein, and Catanzaro.

Charts 2015-09-03

The NFC West's Variety Of Kickers

From 2015 NFL Preview: Everything You Need To Know About The Seahawks, Cardinals, Rams And 49ers by Benjamin Morris

Bubble dot chart showing career missed field goal distances for 28 NFL kickers with at least 30 games played who were active in 2014, colored by kicker and sized by misses per game.

Charts 2015-09-03

Where Kickers Miss From

From 2015 NFL Preview: Everything You Need To Know About The Seahawks, Cardinals, Rams And 49ers by Benjamin Morris

Yellow-tinted photo of a university statue overlaid with large white text reading 15.6 PERCENT, used as an editorial data graphic.

Other 2015-09-03

15.6 Percent — FiveThirtyEight Infographic

From Significant Digits For Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Table showing proposed false-positive thresholds for FDA clinical drug trials across 25 diseases, with 2010 U.S. prevalence, severity scores, and color-coded proposed false positive rates.

Tables 2015-09-03

What Standards Should The FDA Set For Clinical Drug Trials?

From How The FDA Could Change The Way It Approves Drugs by Andrew Flowers

Table showing New England Patriots Football Power Index ratings and projections before and after Tom Brady's suspension was overturned, with changes in wins, playoff chances, and FPI ratings.

Tables 2015-09-03

What Brady's Return Means For The Pats

From The Tom Brady Ruling Means Nearly Half An Extra Win For The Patriots by Chadwick Matlin, Neil Paine

Purple-tinted editorial graphic showing a man's face alongside large text reading 33 Percent on a purple background.

Other 2015-09-04

33 Percent

From Significant Digits For Friday, Sept. 4, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Two line charts showing seasonally adjusted change in full-time and part-time employment since December 2007 and since June 2009, based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Charts 2015-09-04

Change In Employment, Seasonally Adjusted

From About That ‘Game-Changing’ Jobs Report by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted hourly earnings change from a year earlier for all workers and non-managers from 2008 to 2015, both converging near +2% by 2015.

Charts 2015-09-04

Hourly Earnings, Change From A Year Earlier

From About That ‘Game-Changing’ Jobs Report by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted change in non-agricultural jobs from a year earlier, with separate lines for Total and Private employment from 2011 to 2015.

Charts 2015-09-04

Non-Agricultural Jobs, Change From A Year Earlier

From About That ‘Game-Changing’ Jobs Report by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the prime-age employment rate for workers ages 25 to 54, seasonally adjusted, from 2000 to 2015, with a sharp drop around 2008-2010.

Charts 2015-09-04

Prime-Age Employment Rate

From About That ‘Game-Changing’ Jobs Report 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 2015.

Charts 2015-09-04

What The Unemployed Are Doing One Month Later

From About That ‘Game-Changing’ Jobs Report by Ben Casselman

Dot plot showing percentage of Catholics who favor and think various Church changes will definitely happen within 35 years, broken down by weekly vs. less-than-weekly Mass attendance.

Charts 2015-09-04

Church Attendance And Expectations Of Change

From Catholics Who Disagree With The Vatican Think The Church Will Change by Leah Libresco

US map showing colored lines radiating from a point on the West Coast to cities across the country, with lines colored green, yellow, orange, and red.

Maps 2015-09-04

Flight routes or connections radiating from West Coast hub across the US

From The Best And Worst Airlines, Labor Day Update: Spirit Is A Mess by Ritchie King

A radial map visualization showing lines emanating from a central point on what appears to be a US map, with lines colored in red, orange, yellow, and green.

Maps 2015-09-04

Radial Lines Map Visualization

From The Best And Worst Airlines, Labor Day Update: Spirit Is A Mess by Ritchie King

Line chart showing Spirit Airlines flight delay times by month from July 2014 through June 2015, with a slower-to-faster axis measured in minutes.

Charts 2015-09-04

Spirit Airlines Flight Delays: Slower vs. Faster by Month

From The Best And Worst Airlines, Labor Day Update: Spirit Is A Mess by Ritchie King

Ranked list of 11 major US airlines by minutes shaved off or added to a typical flight, July 2014 through June 2015, with colored dot indicators.

Tables 2015-09-04

The Fastest Airlines

From The Best And Worst Airlines, Labor Day Update: Spirit Is A Mess by Ritchie King

Ranked list of 11 major airlines by minutes shaved off or added to a typical flight, July 2014 through June 2015, with colored dot indicators.

Tables 2015-09-04

The Fastest Airlines

From The Best And Worst Airlines, Labor Day Update: Spirit Is A Mess by Ritchie King

US county-level choropleth map showing Gi z-scores for the word Asshole, with blue clusters in the Southeast and orange-red clusters in the Northeast and parts of the West.

Maps 2015-09-06

Asshole Gi Z-Score Map by US County

From The Week In Data: Expletives, Book Covers, And High School Boyfriends by Abby Abrams

Bar chart showing average annual spending increases as governor for eight Republican candidates including Jeb Bush at 6.11% and Bobby Jindal at roughly -1.7%.

Charts 2015-09-06

Average Annual Spending Increases as Governor

From The Week In Data: Expletives, Book Covers, And High School Boyfriends by Abby Abrams

Side-by-side histograms comparing Amazon cover ratings vs book ratings for Justin Bieber: His World (1.4 cover, 4.4 book) and Domingo's Angel (1.7 cover, 4.6 book).

Charts 2015-09-06

Book Cover Rating vs. Book Rating: Justin Bieber His World and Domingo's Angel

From The Week In Data: Expletives, Book Covers, And High School Boyfriends by Abby Abrams

Timeline chart showing relationship history with Dan (high school, monogamous) across ages 15-22, color-coded by established relationship, casual relationship, and first date.

Charts 2015-09-06

DAN (HIGH SCHOOL) [MONOGAMOUS] — Relationship Timeline

From The Week In Data: Expletives, Book Covers, And High School Boyfriends by Abby Abrams

Table showing exchanges per year and lifespan exchanges for UK banknote denominations £5, £10, £20, and £50.

Tables 2015-09-06

UK Banknote Exchanges Per Year and Lifespan by Denomination

From The Week In Data: Expletives, Book Covers, And High School Boyfriends by Abby Abrams

Area chart comparing ATP and WTA upset percentages by rank differential in Grand Slam tennis tournaments, showing WTA has consistently higher upset rates.

Charts 2015-09-07

Grand Slams: Upset Percentage by Rank Differential (ATP vs WTA)

From Serena Williams Is Getting A Raw Deal By Only Playing Best Of Three Sets by Carl Bialik

Area chart comparing ATP and WTA upset percentages by rank differential at Masters/Premier 5+ tennis tournaments, showing higher upset rates for lower rank differentials.

Charts 2015-09-07

Masters / Premier 5+ Upset Percentage by Rank Differential

From Serena Williams Is Getting A Raw Deal By Only Playing Best Of Three Sets by Carl Bialik

Horizontal bar chart ranking all 32 NFL teams by sum of ESPN.com auction values for fantasy-eligible players, with Denver highest at $156 and Tennessee lowest at $9.

Charts 2015-09-08

Which NFL Teams Cost The Most In Fantasy?

From 2015 NFL Preview: The Texans, Jaguars And Titans Will Try To Rein In The Colts by Sharon B. Katz

Purple-tinted editorial infographic showing 41 percent in large text over a photo of Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally with Bernie for President signs.

Other 2015-09-08

41 Percent — Bernie Sanders Campaign Infographic

From Significant Digits For Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing 2016 Iowa Republican Presidential Caucus polling trends from Jan 2013 to mid-2015 for Trump, Carson, Walker, Cruz, and Bush.

Charts 2015-09-08

2016 Iowa Republican Presidential Caucus

From If Donald Trump Can Win The Nomination, Ben Carson Could Too by Harry Enten

Line chart showing 2016 National Republican Primary polling trends from January 2013 to mid-2015 for Trump, Carson, Bush, Cruz, and Rubio.

Charts 2015-09-08

2016 National Republican Primary

From If Donald Trump Can Win The Nomination, Ben Carson Could Too by Harry Enten

Editorial infographic showing $20,580 in large white text overlaid on a yellow-tinted photo of a Monopoly board game.

Other 2015-09-09

$20,580 — Monopoly Salary Infographic

From Significant Digits For Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 by Walt Hickey

S-curve chart showing probability of Patriots making playoffs vs expected wins, with annotations for Brady missing 0, 4, 8, and 16 games.

Charts 2015-09-10

Brady's Value Comes In The Playoff Sweet Spot

From 2015 NFL Preview: Tom Brady, Tom Brady, Tom Brady (And The Rest Of The AFC East) by Harry Enten

Cropped line chart showing two upward-trending lines, one orange and one dark blue, that cross near the middle of the chart.

Charts 2015-09-10

Two-line trend chart (orange and blue lines crossing)

From Podcast: When Your Boss Is Big Brother by Jody Avirgan

Overlapping area chart comparing distributions of actual NFL win totals from 2002-14 versus projected 2015 win totals, showing projected wins cluster tightly around 8 while actual wins spread more broadly.

Charts 2015-09-10

Reality Is Stranger Than Projection

From Why Aren’t The Best Teams In The NFL Expected To Win A Ton Of Games? by Chadwick Matlin, Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing 2015 NFL preseason team FPI rating versus weighted standard deviation of Madden player ratings, with a positive trend line and the Chiefs highlighted.

Charts 2015-09-11

Do Stars And Scrubs Make For A Better Team?

From 2015 NFL Preview: Peyton’s Broncos Headline The AFC West For At Least One More Season by Neil Paine

Scatter plot comparing NFL quarterbacks' team wins vs. passing wins above replacement from 2006-14, highlighting Brady, P. Manning, Rivers, Brees, E. Manning, and Romo.

Charts 2015-09-11

Rivers Is The Best Of The Rest

From 2015 NFL Preview: Peyton’s Broncos Headline The AFC West For At Least One More Season by Neil Paine

Table showing the longest NFL franchise droughts without a contending-caliber Elo rating of 1575 or higher from 1970 to present, listing team, streak dates, and length.

Tables 2015-09-11

Wandering Through The Wilderness: Longest NFL Franchise Elo Droughts

From 2015 NFL Preview: Peyton’s Broncos Headline The AFC West For At Least One More Season by Neil Paine

Editorial infographic showing '15 Percent' in large white text over a red-tinted photo of a New England Patriots football player.

Other 2015-09-11

15 Percent — Patriots NFL Infographic

From Significant Digits For Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Stacked area chart showing annual fluctuations in homicides from 1986 to 2013, displaying the percentage of the 60 most populous US cities with significantly increasing, no significant change, or significantly decreasing murder rates.

Charts 2015-09-11

Annual Fluctuations In Homicides

From Scare Headlines Exaggerated The U.S. Crime Wave by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing the U.S. murder rate per 100,000 population from 1960 to 2012, peaking around 1980 and declining sharply after 1993.

Charts 2015-09-11

U.S. Murder Rate, 1960-2012

From Scare Headlines Exaggerated The U.S. Crime Wave by Carl Bialik

Scatter plot showing box office revenue vs. Rotten Tomatoes score for M. Night Shyamalan films directed since 1999, with a red trend line and labeled data points.

Charts 2015-09-11

The M. Night Shyamalan Twist

From The Death Spiral Of M. Night Shyamalan’s Career by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot comparing FiveThirtyEight Elo ratings vs ESPN Football Power Index for NFL teams in 2015, with a red trend line and labeled outliers.

Charts 2015-09-11

Battle Of The NFL Power Ratings

From Ratings Nerd Fight: Seattle is #1 in Elo, Green Bay Is #1 in FPI by Neil Paine

Scatter plot with trend lines showing Rick Perry's poll support in 2012 and 2016 national Republican primary polls from 2011 to 2015.

Charts 2015-09-11

Rick Perry's Failed Presidential Aspirations

From Rick Perry’s Failed Presidential Aspirations, In One Chart by Micah Cohen

Dot density map of the Chicago metropolitan area showing racial and ethnic distribution with colored dots representing different demographic groups across cities including Chicago, Evanston, Elgin, Aurora, and Naperville.

Maps 2015-09-13

Chicago Area Racial Dot Density Map

From The Week In Data: Immigrants, Executions, And Apple-Induced Heartbeats by Abby Abrams

Proportional area chart comparing migrant numbers: 160 in a photo, 160,000 proposed relocations, 549,000 arrivals, 1.3M asylum applications, and 4.7M asylum seekers in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

Other 2015-09-13

European Migrant Crisis Numbers in Proportion

From The Week In Data: Immigrants, Executions, And Apple-Induced Heartbeats by Abby Abrams

Line chart showing heart rate in BPM over time during an Apple event, with annotations marking key moments like Tim Cook speaking, WatchOS2 Ship Date, iPad, Apple Pencil, and Microsoft segments.

Charts 2015-09-13

Heart Rate During Apple Event by Segment

From The Week In Data: Immigrants, Executions, And Apple-Induced Heartbeats by Abby Abrams

Stacked bar chart showing data from approximately 1975 to 2015, with values peaking near 100 around 2000, using red, purple, and cyan color segments.

Charts 2015-09-13

Stacked Bar Chart 1975–2015 with Peak Around 2000

From The Week In Data: Immigrants, Executions, And Apple-Induced Heartbeats by Abby Abrams

A serpentine spiral chart showing time since ascending throne in years, with data points marked as purple circles along an orange winding path at 10 and 20 year intervals.

Charts 2015-09-13

Time Since Ascended Throne — Spiral Chart

From The Week In Data: Immigrants, Executions, And Apple-Induced Heartbeats by Abby Abrams

Line chart showing Elo ratings by match for tennis greats including Federer, Djokovic, Nadal, and others, plotted from age 15 to 40.

Charts 2015-09-13

How The Greatest Have Aged: Elo ratings by match

From Djokovic And Federer Are Vying To Be The Greatest Of All Time by Carl Bialik, Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing Elo ratings by match for top open-era men's tennis players from 1970 to the 2010s, including Djokovic, Federer, Nadal, Sampras, Agassi, Lendl, Borg, Connors, McEnroe, and Murray.

Charts 2015-09-13

The History Of Open-Era Men's Tennis

From Djokovic And Federer Are Vying To Be The Greatest Of All Time by Carl Bialik, Benjamin Morris

Four line charts comparing Florida vs. national cumulative percentage change in GDP, house prices, personal income, and jobs since January 1999, with Jeb Bush's gubernatorial term shaded.

Charts 2015-09-14

Florida's Economy During And After Bush's Term

From How To Evaluate The Economic Records Of Governors Who Want To Be President by Ben Casselman

Small multiples line charts showing actual vs expected unemployment rates in states whose governors ran for president, compared to national rates, from the 1990s to 2015.

Charts 2015-09-14

Unemployment Rates In States With Governors Running For President

From How To Evaluate The Economic Records Of Governors Who Want To Be President by Ben Casselman

Purple-tinted editorial graphic showing a close-up of a man's face overlaid with the large text '59.5 PERCENT'.

Other 2015-09-14

59.5 Percent

From Significant Digits For Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Dot plot showing yards downfield for each pass thrown by trailing NFL quarterbacks in Week 1, with touchdowns in gold and interceptions in red.

Charts 2015-09-14

Week 1: How Deep Did Trailing QBs Throw?

From NFL Gunslinger Of The Week: Romo, Rivers Or Roethlisberger? by Benjamin Morris

Editorial infographic displaying the quantity 400 kilograms in large white text over a blue-tinted photo of a Virgin aircraft tail.

Other 2015-09-15

400 Kilograms

From Significant Digits For Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing US federal funds rate from 1955 to present with marked liftoff months when sustained interest rate increases began, peaking near 20% around 1980.

Charts 2015-09-15

Interest Rate 'Liftoff' Dates

From Don’t Worry Too Much About A Fed Interest Rate Hike by Andrew Flowers

Cropped line chart showing multiple trend lines in gray and a highlighted red line with dramatic dips, likely tracking a metric over time.

Charts 2015-09-15

Line chart with red highlighted trend line showing sharp drops

From Don’t Worry Too Much About A Fed Interest Rate Hike by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing the Federal funds rate alongside car loan, mortgage, and corporate bond rates from 1971 to 2015, illustrating how the Fed influences all kinds of interest rates.

Charts 2015-09-15

The Fed Influences All Kinds Of Interest Rates

From Don’t Worry Too Much About A Fed Interest Rate Hike by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing percentage-point change in interest rates in months following the first rate hike across multiple historical periods, with a projected path for Sept. 2015.

Charts 2015-09-15

The Fed Is Likely To Raise Rates Slowly

From Don’t Worry Too Much About A Fed Interest Rate Hike by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing 2015 NWSL standings by week for all teams, highlighting Seattle Reign FC finishing 1st and FC Kansas City finishing 3rd, with the Women's World Cup break marked.

Charts 2015-09-15

2015 NWSL Standings, By Week

From Podcast: The Pats’ Home-Field Advantage; Djokovic The GoAT; Cespedes For The Rest Of Us by Hot Takedown

Line chart showing an NFL team's Elo rating over seasons from 1960 to 2015, with a peak of 1783 highlighted at the 1974 Super Bowl win over Minnesota.

Charts 2015-09-16

NFL Elo Rating Over Time — Peak 1783, Super Bowl 1/13/1974

From The Complete History Of The NFL by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart showing an NFL team's Elo rating from 1986 to 1998 seasons, with a peak of 1788 highlighted at the 1994 Super Bowl win over Buffalo.

Charts 2015-09-16

NFL Elo Rating Over Time, 1986–1998 (Peak: 1788, Super Bowl 1/30/1994)

From The Complete History Of The NFL by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart showing an NFL team's Elo rating from 1978 to 2000, with a peak of 1795 highlighted at the Super Bowl win on 1/28/1990 (W 55-10 vs. DEN, 17-2 record).

Charts 2015-09-16

NFL Elo Rating Over Time, Peak 1795 at Super Bowl 1/28/1990

From The Complete History Of The NFL by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart showing an NFL team's Elo rating from 1920 to 2014, with yellow dots marking peak ratings and a tooltip showing a 1791 rating from a 1998 conference game vs SF.

Charts 2015-09-16

NFL Team Elo Rating History 1920–2014

From The Complete History Of The NFL by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Yellow-tinted editorial infographic showing the number 74 percent overlaid on a photo of a woman, used to highlight a statistic.

Other 2015-09-16

74 Percent

From Significant Digits For Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Color-coded calendar chart showing the tone and subject of lead Hillary Clinton headlines on Memeorandum.com from June 14 to mid-September, with icons for email server, bad polling, and VP Biden stories.

Charts 2015-09-16

For Clinton, Negative Headlines

From Hillary Clinton Is Stuck In A Poll-Deflating Feedback Loop by Nate Silver

Line chart showing the change in median household income and earned income since 2000, adjusted for inflation and methodology, from 2000 to 2014.

Charts 2015-09-16

Change In Median Household Income Since 2000

From More Jobs Haven’t Meant Less Poverty by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing inflation-adjusted median earnings of full-time year-round workers by gender from 1955 to 2013, with men consistently earning more than women.

Charts 2015-09-16

Median Earnings Of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers

From More Jobs Haven’t Meant Less Poverty by Ben Casselman

Blue-tinted editorial graphic showing a masked healthcare worker with large text reading 3 Million, likely referencing a COVID-19 vaccination or case milestone.

Other 2015-09-17

3 Million

From Significant Digits For Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 by Walt Hickey

A bar chart with blue and gray bars and orange circle markers plotted along a horizontal baseline, showing values above and below zero.

Charts 2015-09-17

Bar chart with orange dot markers above and below baseline

From We’re Bullish On Fiorina And (Still) Bearish On Trump After The Debate

Horizontal bar chart showing each Republican candidate's percentage chance of winning the 2016 Republican nomination according to Predictwise on Sept. 17, 2015, with Jeb Bush leading at 39%.

Charts 2015-09-17

Chances Of Winning The Republican Nomination

From We’re Bullish On Fiorina And (Still) Bearish On Trump After The Debate

Dot plot showing net favorability ratings for 17 Republican presidential contenders as of Sept. 16, 2015, ranging from Ben Carson at +50 to Lindsey Graham at -12.

Charts 2015-09-17

How Popular Are The Republican Contenders?

From We’re Bullish On Fiorina And (Still) Bearish On Trump After The Debate

Dot plot showing percentage support among Republican women for each 2016 GOP presidential candidate as of September 16, 2015, with Trump leading at 30%.

Charts 2015-09-17

Support Among Republican Women

From We’re Bullish On Fiorina And (Still) Bearish On Trump After The Debate

Dot plot comparing actual vs. Elo-expected home and road winning percentages for NFL teams from 2000 to 2015, highlighting the New England Patriots.

Charts 2015-09-17

Home Or Away, The Pats Win More Than Expected

From If The Patriots Are Cheating At Home, The Stats Don’t Show It by Chadwick Matlin, Neil Paine

Red-tinted editorial graphic overlaying a close-up face with large white text reading 8 Minutes 29 Seconds, likely referencing a notable time duration.

Tables 2015-09-18

8 Minutes 29 Seconds

From Significant Digits For Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing Google Ngram frequency trends for incarceration-related terms like mass incarceration and prison industrial complex from 1920 to 2000s.

Charts 2015-09-18

Google Ngram: Mass Incarceration and Related Terms Over Time

From A Million People Were In Prison Before We Called It Mass Incarceration by Oliver Roeder

Dual line chart comparing US imprisonment rate per 100,000 people and news mentions of mass incarceration from 1980 to the mid-2010s.

Charts 2015-09-18

Imprisonment rate vs. news mentions of "mass incarceration"

From A Million People Were In Prison Before We Called It Mass Incarceration by Oliver Roeder

A line chart showing two overlapping trend lines in red and gray, both generally trending upward, with two highlighted yellow dot markers near the right side.

Charts 2015-09-18

Upward Trend Line Chart with Highlighted Data Points

From The Best NFL Teams Of All Time, According To Elo by Neil Paine

Dot cluster of approximately 654 pink dots above large text stating at least 654 medical workers were killed in attacks on hospitals.

Other 2015-09-20

At Least 654 Medical Workers Killed in Attacks on Hospitals

From The Week In Data: Miss America, Gmail, And Donald Trump by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot comparing BMI trends of the average American woman versus Miss America Pageant winners from 1920 to 2015, showing diverging trends.

Charts 2015-09-20

BMI Trends: The Average American Woman vs. Miss America

From The Week In Data: Miss America, Gmail, And Donald Trump by Mona Chalabi

Two circular diagrams comparing how many times Republican debate candidates mentioned Trump on Aug. 6 vs. Sept. 16, shown with arrows and numbers pointing to an illustration of Trump's face.

Other 2015-09-20

Mentions of Trump — Aug. 6 vs. Sept. 16 Republican Debates

From The Week In Data: Miss America, Gmail, And Donald Trump by Mona Chalabi

Scatter plot with trend lines showing number of emails over time from 2004 to 2014, comparing all emails versus emails from Google.

Charts 2015-09-20

Number of Emails Over Time: All Emails vs. From Google

From The Week In Data: Miss America, Gmail, And Donald Trump by Mona Chalabi

Area chart showing the percentage of workers who made more than $19,444 annually from 1950 to 2010, with a slider to adjust the compensation threshold.

Charts 2015-09-20

See how annual compensation compares over the years

From The Week In Data: Miss America, Gmail, And Donald Trump by Mona Chalabi

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