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Four line charts comparing live vs non-live poll averages for Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, and Perry throughout 2011, showing non-live polls surged higher.

Charts 2015-12-01

2012's Flameouts Surged More In Non-Live Polls

From The Future Of Polling May Depend On Donald Trump’s Fate by Harry Enten

Line chart comparing Trump's 2015 polling averages among Republicans in non-live-interview polls versus live-interview polls from July to November 2015.

Charts 2015-12-01

Trump Does Better In Non-Live National Polls

From The Future Of Polling May Depend On Donald Trump’s Fate by Harry Enten

Dual line chart comparing Trump's loess-smoothed 2015 polling averages from live vs non-live polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, July through November.

Charts 2015-12-01

Trump Does Better In Non-Live State Polls

From The Future Of Polling May Depend On Donald Trump’s Fate by Harry Enten

Yellow-tinted editorial infographic showing a dog sitting at a computer with large text reading 65 PERCENT.

Other 2015-12-01

65 Percent

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

Horizontal bar chart showing South Asian vs total individual donor amounts to Bobby Jindal's gubernatorial campaigns in 2003, 2007, and 2011, illustrating declining South Asian contributions.

Charts 2015-12-01

South Asian Donors Soured On Bobby Jindal

From The GOP Can’t Depend On Minority Candidates To Win Minority Votes by Dhrumil Mehta

Dual-axis line chart comparing Bitcoin market capitalization in billions of dollars against the word frequency of 'bitcoin' on Reddit from 2011 to 2015.

Charts 2015-12-01

Bitcoin: Market capitalization vs Word frequency on reddit

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Line chart comparing Google search frequency of the terms 'emoticon' and 'emoji' from 2008 to 2015, showing emoji surpassing emoticon around 2014.

Charts 2015-12-01

Emoticon vs. Emoji Google Trends 2008–2015

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Line chart from Google Ngram Viewer showing frequency trends of laugh expressions (HAHA, HEHE, HEH, HAH, HAHAHA, HAHAHAHA, HAHAHAHAHA) from 2008 to 2014, with HAHA dominating.

Charts 2015-12-01

Google Ngram Viewer: Laugh Expressions 2008–2014

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Google Trends-style line chart comparing search frequency of 'DOGE' and 'DOG' from 2008 to 2015, showing a spike in DOGE around 2013-2014.

Charts 2015-12-01

Google Ngram or Trends: DOGE vs DOG search frequency 2008-2015

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Line chart screenshot showing frequency trends of the terms Artisanal, Bespoke, and Handcrafted from 2008 to 2015, with Bespoke rising sharply around 2011.

Charts 2015-12-01

Google Ngram-style frequency chart: Artisanal, Bespoke, Handcrafted 2008–2015

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Google Ngram Viewer line chart comparing frequency of the terms Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio in books from 2008 to 2015.

Charts 2015-12-01

Google Ngram: Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio Mentions Over Time

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Line chart comparing Google search frequency of the terms 'correlation' and 'causation' from 2008 to 2015, showing both declining over time.

Charts 2015-12-01

Google Trends: Correlation vs. Causation (2008–2015)

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Line chart screenshot comparing usage frequency of internet slang terms IMO and IMHO from 2008 to 2015, showing IMO rising sharply while IMHO declines.

Charts 2015-12-01

IMO vs IMHO Usage Frequency 2008–2015

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Google Trends-style line chart comparing search interest for OkCupid and Tinder from 2008 to 2015, showing Tinder surpassing OkCupid around 2014.

Charts 2015-12-01

OkCupid vs. Tinder Search Interest 2008–2015

From Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks by Ritchie King

Side-by-side basketball shot charts for the Indiana Pacers comparing shooting percentages by court zone for the 2013-14 and 2015-16 seasons.

Charts 2015-12-01

Indiana Pacers Shot Charts: 2013-14 vs. 2015-16

From Paul George Is Back, And So Are The Pacers by Neil Paine

Choropleth map of Ohio counties showing percentage point change in share of total abortions and number of surgical abortion clinics by city from 2010 to 2014.

Maps 2015-12-02

Change in Share of Abortions and Surgical Clinics in Ohio, 2010–2014

From John Kasich’s Quiet Campaign To Cut Abortion Access by Allie Gross

Table showing college football playoff chances for various teams in the scenario where Alabama and Clemson both lose, with columns for with win, with loss, and overall probabilities.

Tables 2015-12-02

Alabama Loses, Clemson Loses — Resulting Playoff Chances

From This Week In College Football: All The Wild Scenarios That Could End The Season by Andrew Flowers

FiveThirtyEight table showing college football playoff chances for various teams if Alabama loses and Clemson wins, with columns for with win, with loss, and overall odds.

Tables 2015-12-02

Alabama Loses, Clemson Wins — Resulting Playoff Chances

From This Week In College Football: All The Wild Scenarios That Could End The Season by Andrew Flowers

FiveThirtyEight table showing college football playoff chances for various teams in a scenario where Alabama wins and Clemson loses, with columns for with-win, with-loss, and overall probabilities.

Tables 2015-12-02

Alabama Wins, Clemson Loses — Resulting Playoff Chances

From This Week In College Football: All The Wild Scenarios That Could End The Season by Andrew Flowers

Table showing college football playoff chances for various teams if Alabama and Clemson both win, with columns for with win, with loss, and overall probabilities.

Tables 2015-12-02

Alabama Wins, Clemson Wins — Resulting Playoff Chances

From This Week In College Football: All The Wild Scenarios That Could End The Season by Andrew Flowers

Bar and dot chart showing active-shooter events per year from 2000 to 2013, with bars for annual counts and red dots for five-year averages, from a 2014 FBI investigation.

Charts 2015-12-03

Active-Shooter Events

From Mass Shootings Have Become More Common In The U.S. by Ritchie King, Carl Bialik, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing annual homicides from firearms in the U.S. from 2000 to 2013, with values ranging roughly between 11,000 and 13,000.

Charts 2015-12-03

Annual Homicides From Firearms In The U.S.

From Mass Shootings Have Become More Common In The U.S. by Ritchie King, Carl Bialik, Andrew Flowers

Table comparing mass shooting events, deaths, and injuries from 2010 to 2015 across three data sources: Mass Shooting Tracker, Mother Jones, and the FBI.

Tables 2015-12-03

How Common Are Mass Shootings?

From Mass Shootings Have Become More Common In The U.S. by Ritchie King, Carl Bialik, Andrew Flowers

Bar and dot chart showing annual mass shooting events from the Mother Jones database from 1982 to 2015, with bars representing five-year averages and dots representing individual yearly counts.

Charts 2015-12-03

Mass Shooting Events

From Mass Shootings Have Become More Common In The U.S. by Ritchie King, Carl Bialik, Andrew Flowers

Editorial graphic with large white text reading 351 Mass Shootings over a yellow-tinted photo of people in a circle.

Other 2015-12-03

351 Mass Shootings

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

Scatter plot showing NBA players' shooting value added vs. total shots, with Curry highlighted as the most valuable shooter by a wide margin.

Charts 2015-12-03

Curry Is The Most Valuable Shooter (By A Lot)

From Stephen Curry Is The Revolution by Benjamin Morris

Line chart comparing Stephen Curry's true shooting percentage to other Warriors players and the NBA average from 2012-13 to 2015-16 seasons.

Charts 2015-12-03

Curry Is Way Better Than His Teammates

From Stephen Curry Is The Revolution by Benjamin Morris

Line chart comparing Stephen Curry's 3-point shooting percentage vs NBA average by distance from closest defender, through Nov. 28, 2015.

Charts 2015-12-03

Defense Can't Stop Steph

From Stephen Curry Is The Revolution by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NBA teams' 3-point percentage vs. 3-point attempts per 100 possessions for the 2014-15 season, highlighting the Final Four teams Warriors, Hawks, Cavaliers, and Rockets.

Charts 2015-12-03

Last Year's Final Four On The '3-Point Frontier'

From Stephen Curry Is The Revolution by Benjamin Morris

Bubble chart showing true shooting percentage vs. shots per 36 minutes for 2015-16 Golden State Warriors players, with Curry highlighted in gold as an outlier.

Charts 2015-12-03

Only One Warrior Defies The Laws Of Efficiency

From Stephen Curry Is The Revolution by Benjamin Morris

Line chart comparing Stephen Curry's 3-point shooting percentage vs NBA average by seconds remaining on the shot clock, last season through Nov. 28, 2015.

Charts 2015-12-03

The Clock Can't Stop Steph

From Stephen Curry Is The Revolution by Benjamin Morris

Bubble scatter chart comparing NBA players' pull-up three-point shooting percentage versus attempts per game, highlighting Steph Curry as an outlier with high volume and accuracy.

Charts 2015-12-03

There Are Some Shots Only Curry Can Make

From Stephen Curry Is The Revolution by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot comparing true shooting percentage vs field-goal attempts per 100 possessions for NBA players from 2009-10 through Nov. 29, 2015, highlighting Steph Curry's seasons alongside Durant and James.

Charts 2015-12-03

You Can Never Have Too Much Curry

From Stephen Curry Is The Revolution by Benjamin Morris

Horizontal bar chart showing the most common demands at 51 schools with student protests, led by increasing diversity of professors at 38 schools.

Charts 2015-12-03

What Do Student Protesters Want?

From Here Are The Demands From Students Protesting Racism At 51 Colleges by Leah Libresco

Red-tinted editorial graphic showing the number 92 counts overlaid on a photo of a man in front of a FIFA backdrop.

Other 2015-12-04

92 Counts — FIFA Corruption Infographic

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

Line chart showing Chip Kelly's probability of being fired before next season by game of the 2015 season, compared to three similar coach trajectories.

Charts 2015-12-04

Chip Kelly's Job-Security Roller Coaster

From Chip Kelly Should Probably Fire Himself by Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing team wOBA against expectation vs. coach's career oWAR from 1973-2014, with a slightly negative trend line and labeled outliers including Frank Robinson, Art Howe, Jeff Bagwell, and Tino Martinez.

Charts 2015-12-04

Do Great Hitters Make Great Hitting Coaches?

From There’s No Reason To Think Barry Bonds Can Coach Like He Could Hit by Neil Paine

Line chart comparing the popularity of the baby names Saint and North from 1996 to 2014, showing years with at least five instances of each name.

Charts 2015-12-07

Saint Is A More Popular Name Than North

From Saint Is Already A More Popular Baby Name Than North by Andrew Flowers

Editorial infographic showing the number 1.4 million overlaid on a yellow-tinted photo of a woman shopping in a grocery produce section.

Other 2015-12-08

1.4 Million

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

Bar chart histogram showing distribution of Golden State Warriors win totals across 10,000 simulations, peaking around 72-73 wins.

Charts 2015-12-08

How Many Games Will The Warriors Win?

From It’s Time To Take The Warriors’ Chances Of Going 73-9 Seriously by Kyle Wagner

Scatter plot comparing Hispanic undergraduate enrollment share vs. Hispanic college-age state population at public research universities in states with and without affirmative action bans in 2013.

Charts 2015-12-09

Banning affirmative action hurts Hispanic enrollment

From Here’s What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions by Hayley Munguia

Scatter plot comparing black undergraduate enrollment share vs. black state population share at public research universities in states with and without affirmative action bans in 2013.

Charts 2015-12-09

Banning affirmative action hurts black enrollment

From Here’s What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions by Hayley Munguia

Dot plot showing time stamps of every instance of profanity and each death in seven Quentin Tarantino films, with gray dots for profanity and red dots for deaths.

Charts 2015-12-09

The complete obscene guide to Tarantino

From A Complete Catalog Of Every Time Someone Cursed Or Bled Out In A Quentin Tarantino Movie by Oliver Roeder

Bar and dot chart showing average change in Uber pickups, taxi pickups, and total Uber plus taxi pickups by hour of day outside Manhattan core, April-June 2014 vs. April-June 2015.

Charts 2015-12-09

Thousands of new pickups outside Manhattan core

From Is Uber Making NYC Rush-Hour Traffic Worse? by Carl Bialik, Reuben Fischer-Baum, Dhrumil Mehta

Bar chart showing average hourly change in Uber pickups, taxi pickups, and total Uber plus taxi pickups in Manhattan, comparing April-June 2014 vs. April-June 2015.

Charts 2015-12-09

Uber adds (a little) to Manhattan evening rush

From Is Uber Making NYC Rush-Hour Traffic Worse? by Carl Bialik, Reuben Fischer-Baum, Dhrumil Mehta

Scatter plot showing Democratic popular vote margin in presidential elections versus Democratic trust margin on Americans' most important issue, with a trend line and labeled election years from 1956 to 2012.

Charts 2015-12-09

Americans have voted on their top issue

From Americans Are Worried About Terrorism, And That Could Help The GOP by Harry Enten

Horizontal bar chart showing change in upper income share minus lower income share by demographic group from 1971 to 2015, with older adults gaining most and high school graduates losing most.

Charts 2015-12-09

Older people, married couples and black adults improved their income status more than other groups from 1971 to 2015

From Most Americans Aren’t Middle Class Anymore by Ben Casselman

Stacked bar chart showing the share of adults living in middle-income households falling from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2015, broken into five income tiers.

Charts 2015-12-09

Share of adults living in middle-income households is falling

From Most Americans Aren’t Middle Class Anymore by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot comparing Metacritic rating vs. IMDb user score for Christmas-related movies, with notable films like The Godfather, Goodfellas, and Die Hard labeled.

Charts 2015-12-10

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

From The Best Movies That Are Kind Of About Christmas by Walt Hickey

Bar chart showing total norovirus outbreaks by number of people sickened from 2009-14, with an annotation marking the current outbreak at 80 confirmed cases.

Charts 2015-12-10

Most norovirus outbreaks don't get this big

From Chipotle’s Norovirus Outbreak Is Not A Typical Norovirus Outbreak by Leah Libresco

Scatter plot showing NBA players' desperate heave shooting percentage vs. average attempts per game from 2013-14 through Dec. 7, 2015, highlighting Stephen Curry's improvement across three seasons.

Charts 2015-12-10

Curry is the new king of desperate heaves

From Stephen Curry’s Bombs Are Too Good To Be True* by Benjamin Morris

Bubble line chart comparing Stephen Curry's percent shots made vs. shot distance from the basket against the NBA average for 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons.

Charts 2015-12-10

Distance can't stop Steph … anymore

From Stephen Curry’s Bombs Are Too Good To Be True* by Benjamin Morris

Dual line chart comparing Stephen Curry and Kyle Korver's percent shots made vs. shot distance from the basket for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 NBA seasons.

Charts 2015-12-10

Stephen Curry vs. Kyle Korver: Percent Shots Made vs. Shot Distance

From Stephen Curry’s Bombs Are Too Good To Be True* by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NBA players who shoot voluntarily from bomb range (28-42 feet), tracking Damian Lillard and Stephen Curry across seasons by average shots per game and percent made.

Charts 2015-12-10

Who shoots from bomb range voluntarily?

From Stephen Curry’s Bombs Are Too Good To Be True* by Benjamin Morris

Table and basketball court diagram showing Chicago Bulls shot selection changes by zone between 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, with more midrange shots and fewer restricted area shots.

Tables 2015-12-11

Bulls Shot Selection

From The Bulls Offense Still Starts And (Especially) Stops With Derrick Rose by Kirk Goldsberry

Shot chart of Derrick Rose's shooting efficiency by court location through Dec. 8, showing he is one of the worst shooters in the NBA with hexagonal frequency and efficiency markers.

Charts 2015-12-11

The bloom is off the Rose

From The Bulls Offense Still Starts And (Especially) Stops With Derrick Rose by Kirk Goldsberry

Line chart showing a team's probability of winning the World Series versus preseason forecasted true talent wins, with the 2016 Cubs highlighted at about 15% probability.

Charts 2015-12-11

Guaranteed to kill curses (15% of the time)

From There’s An 85 Percent Chance The Cubs Won’t Win The World Series Next Year Either by Neil Paine

Line chart showing percentage of minorities from 1970 to 2010s in the whitest US states in 1970, with Iowa highlighted in red.

Charts 2015-12-14

Iowa is very white instead of very, very white

From Iowa Isn’t The State Presidential Candidates Pretend It Is by Daniel Lathrop

Three line charts showing Iowa's employment landscape change from 1970 to 2010s, comparing agriculture workforce decline and finance and real estate sector growth against all US states.

Charts 2015-12-14

Iowa's employment landscape has changed

From Iowa Isn’t The State Presidential Candidates Pretend It Is by Daniel Lathrop

Three line charts showing Iowa's declining agricultural workforce share and rising finance and real estate workforce share from 1970 to the 2010s, compared to all other US states.

Charts 2015-12-14

Iowa's employment landscape has changed

From Iowa Isn’t The State Presidential Candidates Pretend It Is by Daniel Lathrop

Scatter plot showing national primary poll averages 53 to 83 days before Iowa caucuses versus actual national primary results, with labeled candidates showing polls are not predictive.

Charts 2015-12-14

National primary polls aren't predictive

From Polls Suggest Trump Will Win Between 8 Percent And 64 Percent Of The Vote by Harry Enten

Scatter plot comparing January-June national poll averages the year before a primary to actual national primary results, with labeled candidates and a red trend line.

Charts 2015-12-14

Old polls are just as unreliable as current ones

From Polls Suggest Trump Will Win Between 8 Percent And 64 Percent Of The Vote by Harry Enten

Horizontal bar chart showing estimates for global temperature rise with INDCs from various sources including Climate Action Tracker, MIT, and UNEP, ranging from 2.7 to 5.2 degrees C.

Charts 2015-12-14

Estimates for Global Temperature Rise with INDCs

From The Paris Climate Agreement Would Be A Great First Step If This Were 1995 by Christie Aschwanden

Scatter plot of primary passer's single-game QBR vs. team points scored from 2006-15, highlighting B. Bortles vs. IND 2015 as potentially the worst 40+ point game of the decade.

Charts 2015-12-14

The worst 40+ point game of the decade?

From The Jaguars Scored 51 Points; Blake Bortles Had Practically Nothing To Do With It by Neil Paine

Contour plot showing probability values from 0.4 to 0.9 across a grid with P(score) on the x-axis (0–35) and a numeric y-axis (0–65), with a color scale from green (0.0) to white (1.0).

Charts 2015-12-15

Contour Plot of Probability vs. P(score)

From A Plea For More Frisbee Data From A U.S. Ultimate Coach by Jody Avirgan

Scatter plot with trend line showing the difference between Trump's support in polls he tweeted about favorably and the concurrent polling aggregate, July through December 2015.

Charts 2015-12-15

Polls through Trump-colored glasses

From Shocker: Trump Tweets The Polls That Make Him Look Most Like A Winner by Carl Bialik, Harry Enten

Stacked bar chart showing categories of 28,588 complaints leveled against Chicago police officers from Jan. 1, 2011 to Dec. 7, 2015.

Charts 2015-12-15

Complaints leveled against Chicago police officers

From How To Predict Bad Cops In Chicago by Rob Arthur

Two stacked bar charts showing distribution of complaints among Chicago police officers from 2011 to 2015, with 22% having 4+ complaints and that group accounting for 52% of total complaints.

Charts 2015-12-15

Some Chicago police officers get more complaints

From How To Predict Bad Cops In Chicago by Rob Arthur

Horizontal bar chart showing the number of times each person was negatively mentioned or directly confronted in the Dec. 15 Republican debate, with Rubio highlighted in red at 22.

Charts 2015-12-16

Rubio in the hot seat in the main debate

From The Fifth Republican Debate Ended In A Nine-Way Draw by Nate Silver

Line chart showing year-over-year change in PCE and Core PCE inflation from 2009 to 2015, both well below the Fed's 2% target.

Charts 2015-12-16

Inflation is very, very low

From OK, The Fed Is Set To Raise Rates. Now What? by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing the ratio of stock prices to company earnings from 1986 to 2015, peaking near 44 around 2000 and sitting around 26 at the end.

Charts 2015-12-16

Is the stock market overvalued?

From OK, The Fed Is Set To Raise Rates. Now What? by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing percentage-point change in interest rates in months following the first rate hike across multiple historical periods, with Dec. 2015 projected path shown as dotted line.

Charts 2015-12-16

The Fed is likely to raise rates slowly

From OK, The Fed Is Set To Raise Rates. Now What? by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing year-over-year potential GDP growth rate from 1996 to 2026, with actual data declining from about 3.3% to 1.5% and projected recovery to around 2.1%.

Charts 2015-12-16

The economy's growth rate is slowing

From OK, The Fed Is Set To Raise Rates. Now What? by Andrew Flowers

FiveThirtyEight player card for Kristaps Porzingis showing wins above replacement projection, five key stats percentiles, and most comparable NBA players.

Other 2015-12-16

Kristaps Porzingis NBA Player Projection Card

From Kristaps Porzingis Is A Freak — And Potentially A Superstar by Nate Silver, Kirk Goldsberry

Basketball shot chart for Kristaps Porzingis showing shooting frequency and efficiency by court zone, with hexagonal markers colored by FG% vs. league average.

Charts 2015-12-16

Kristaps Porzingis Shot Chart

From Kristaps Porzingis Is A Freak — And Potentially A Superstar by Nate Silver, Kirk Goldsberry

Bar chart comparing actual vs expected normal distribution of NBA player heights by share of minutes played since 1976-77, showing a slight abnormality around 6'9" to 6'11".

Charts 2015-12-16

The (slightly) abnormal distribution of NBA height

From Kristaps Porzingis Is A Freak — And Potentially A Superstar by Nate Silver, Kirk Goldsberry

Scatter plot showing how each installment in 40 movie franchises affected the average Rotten Tomatoes score upon release, with Star Wars and Meet the Parents highlighted.

Charts 2015-12-16

Did the sequel help the franchise?

From What It Would Take For ‘The Force Awakens’ To Redeem Star Wars by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing Rotten Tomatoes scores for each Star Wars film versus the franchise average, from Episode IV through Episode III.

Charts 2015-12-16

The slow turn to the dark side (of the critics)

From What It Would Take For ‘The Force Awakens’ To Redeem Star Wars by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing the average increase in ticket-resale prices above the home team's median seasonlong sales price for upcoming Warriors games through Dec. 12, rising from about 120% to nearly 400%.

Charts 2015-12-16

The Warriors Effect

From The Warriors Are The Hottest Ticket In Every Town by Carl Bialik

Dual line charts showing average NBA ticket prices on SeatGeek for home and away games by team from 2012-13 to 2016 season, highlighting the Warriors' surging prices.

Charts 2015-12-16

Warriors ticket prices are surging

From The Warriors Are The Hottest Ticket In Every Town by Carl Bialik

Scatter plot comparing Iowa poll averages 53 to 83 days before caucuses versus actual vote in Iowa caucuses, with a red trend line and labeled notable candidates.

Charts 2015-12-18

A lot can still change in Iowa

From Bernie Sanders Can Still Catch Hillary Clinton In Iowa by Harry Enten

Stacked bar chart showing total stays of U.S. executions by year from 2010 to 2015, broken down by reason including court objections to injection, drugs unavailable, misc. injection-related, objections to electrocution, and unrelated to injection.

Charts 2015-12-18

Lethal-injection challenges have risen

From Don’t Write The Death Penalty Off Quite Yet by Leah Libresco

Scatter plot showing Star Wars cast members' highest billing in the series versus number of non-Star Wars roles after their first appearance, for original and prequel cast.

Charts 2015-12-18

What's next for the Star Wars cast after Endor?

From Congratulations, You’ve Been Cast In Star Wars! Will You Ever Work Again? by Walt Hickey

Stacked bar chart showing Romney vs Santorum+Gingrich vote share in 2012 Republican primaries by county education level (share with associate degree or higher).

Charts 2015-12-21

Mitt Romney's 'diploma divide'

From The Key To The GOP Race: The Diploma Divide by David Wasserman

Scatter plot showing Lindsey Graham's national primary polling results from February to December 2015, with all data points clustered near 0%.

Charts 2015-12-21

Lindsey Graham lacked support in the polls

From Lindsey Graham Tries To Stop Trump The Only Way He Can — By Quitting by Harry Enten

Dot plot comparing normalized Spotify streams for songs featuring Nicki Minaj or Drake versus album averages, showing the 'Nicki Effect' and 'Drake Effect' across 40 albums each.

Charts 2015-12-21

The 'Nicki Effect' compared to the 'Drake Effect' where it matters most

From The Drake Effect Is Real, But The Nicki Effect Is Bigger by Allison McCann

Dot plot comparing the Nicki Minaj and Drake feature effects on normalized Spotify streams across 40 albums, showing difference versus album average for songs with and without a featured artist.

Charts 2015-12-21

The 'Nicki Effect' compared to the 'Drake Effect' where it matters most

From The Drake Effect Is Real, But The Nicki Effect Is Bigger by Allison McCann

Bar chart comparing the Nicki Effect on Spotify streams for Nicki Minaj and Drake across top 25% and top 25-50% stream groups, showing Minaj at +46% and +55% versus Drake at +25% and -23%.

Charts 2015-12-21

The 'Nicki Effect' is even greater at the top

From The Drake Effect Is Real, But The Nicki Effect Is Bigger by Allison McCann

Bar chart comparing the Nicki Minaj and Drake effect on Spotify streams for top 25% and top 25-50% stream groups, showing Nicki at +46% and +55% versus Drake at +25% and -23%.

Charts 2015-12-21

The 'Nicki Effect' is even greater at the top

From The Drake Effect Is Real, But The Nicki Effect Is Bigger by Allison McCann

Bar chart comparing average difference in Spotify streams for guest tracks featuring Nicki Minaj (172%), Drake (126%), Lil Wayne (21%), and all three (79%) on albums, Jan-Oct 2015.

Charts 2015-12-21

The 'Nicki Effect' is stronger than the 'Drake Effect'

From The Drake Effect Is Real, But The Nicki Effect Is Bigger by Allison McCann

Bar chart comparing the Nicki Effect vs Drake Effect showing average difference in Spotify streams for guest tracks: Nicki Minaj 172%, Drake 126%, Lil Wayne 21%, All Three 79%.

Charts 2015-12-21

The 'Nicki Effect' is stronger than the 'Drake Effect'

From The Drake Effect Is Real, But The Nicki Effect Is Bigger by Allison McCann

Dot plot showing the percentage of best-of-2015 selections included on at least four other lists, broken down by TV, Movies, Albums, and Books for 30 publications.

Charts 2015-12-21

The idiosyncrasies of 'best of' lists

From The Best Of The ‘Best Of’ Lists by Hayley Munguia

Collage of multiple FiveThirtyEight data visualizations including charts and maps on topics like marijuana laws, equal pay, NFL kickers, and the Running of the Bulls.

Other 2015-12-22

FiveThirtyEight Data Visualizations Collage

From FiveThirtyEight Is Hiring A Data Visualization Intern For Summer 2016 by Ritchie King

Two scatter plots comparing Iowa and New Hampshire poll results 53-83 days before Iowa caucuses against national primary results, with a red trend line showing weak correlation.

Charts 2015-12-22

Polls of early contests don't predict the nominee

From Marco Rubio: Overrated, Underrated Or Properly Rated?

Color-coded US map showing the difference between people who prefer 'merry Christmas' vs 'happy holidays' by census region, based on a 2013 survey.

Maps 2015-12-23

Mapping the war on Christmas

From Where To Say ‘Merry Christmas’ vs. ‘Happy Holidays’ by Andrew R. Lewis, Paul A. Djupe

FiveThirtyEight and On The Media's Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Election Polls Edition, listing 12 tips for evaluating election polls.

Other 2015-12-23

Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Election Polls Edition

From Harry’s Guide To 2016 Election Polls by Harry Enten

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