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Line chart showing annual U.S. earnings growth from 2012 to 2016, tracking median hourly wages, average hourly earnings, and employment cost index.

Charts 2016-01-04

Annual U.S. Earnings Growth

From 2016 Will Be (Another) Test Of The Economic Recovery by Ben Casselman

Three-panel FiveThirtyEight chart showing monthly job gains 2013-2015, manufacturing output and employment change, and inflation-adjusted consumer spending change.

Charts 2016-01-04

Hiring has been steady ... but manufacturing is slowing ... and consumer spending is tapering

From 2016 Will Be (Another) Test Of The Economic Recovery by Ben Casselman

Stata regression output table showing OLS results for ia_and_nh_results on ia_and_nh_avg and us_avg, with 168 observations and R-squared of 0.6704.

Tables 2016-01-04

Stata OLS Regression: Iowa and NH Results vs. Polling Averages

From To Win In Iowa Or New Hampshire, It May Be Better To Poll Worse Nationally by Harry Enten

Area chart comparing BLM grazing price versus market price per cow-calf pair per month from 1980 to 2012, showing BLM price staying near $1-2 while market price rose to $20.

Charts 2016-01-04

Ranchers get a great deal from the BLM on grazing

From The Armed Oregon Ranchers Who Want Free Land Are Already Getting A 93 Percent Discount by Leah Libresco

Interactive line chart showing polling trends for gun rights vs gun control support from 1995 to 2015, with a tooltip showing 52% support gun rights on Dec 7, 2014.

Charts 2016-01-05

Gun Rights vs. Gun Control Support Polling Trends 1995–2015

From Most Americans Agree With Obama That More Gun Buyers Should Get Background Checks by Carl Bialik

Poll results table showing support and opposition to background checks for gun purchases at shows or online, broken down by party, gender, age, education, and density.

Tables 2016-01-05

Poll Q67: Background Checks at Gun Shows or Online

From Most Americans Agree With Obama That More Gun Buyers Should Get Background Checks by Carl Bialik

Gallup poll table showing percentage of Americans who support or oppose a law banning handgun possession except by police, across survey dates from 1959 to 2015.

Tables 2016-01-05

Should There Be a Law Banning Handgun Possession? Gallup Poll 1959–2015

From Most Americans Agree With Obama That More Gun Buyers Should Get Background Checks by Carl Bialik

Bar chart showing the percentage of speaking characters in top 100 films who were female from 2007 to 2014, hovering around 28-33% throughout.

Charts 2016-01-05

The gender disparity in films is big and unchanging

From The End Of YA Novel Adaptations — And 4 Other Pop Culture Predictions For 2016 by Walt Hickey

Area chart showing the percentage of domestic box office revenue derived from comic book movies from 1990 to 2015, with a general upward trend peaking above 16% around 2015.

Charts 2016-01-05

Up, up and away: Percentage of domestic box office derived from comic book movies

From The End Of YA Novel Adaptations — And 4 Other Pop Culture Predictions For 2016 by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing the release date of Billboard's top single of the summer from 1985 to 2015, with a dotted line marking the start of summer.

Charts 2016-01-05

When Is The Song Of The Summer Released?

From The End Of YA Novel Adaptations — And 4 Other Pop Culture Predictions For 2016 by Walt Hickey

Area chart showing domestic box office share of movies based on young adult novels from 2000 to 2015, peaking around 8% near 2011 and 2014.

Charts 2016-01-05

Will the next great YA film series please stand up?

From The End Of YA Novel Adaptations — And 4 Other Pop Culture Predictions For 2016 by Walt Hickey

Line chart comparing percent of Hall of Famers vs. percent of eligible MLB population by decade from the 1880s to 1990s, showing the 1920s era is overrepresented.

Charts 2016-01-05

Which eras have too many Hall of Famers?

From Baseball’s Hall Of Fame Is Stuck In The ’60s by Neil Paine

Dot plot showing cancer risk estimates for 20 foods from a 2012 meta-analysis, with green dots indicating lower risk and red dots indicating higher risk on a logarithmic scale.

Charts 2016-01-06

Foods that may or may not give you cancer

From You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition by Christie Aschwanden

Dot plot comparing calories eaten per day from a food diary versus a food frequency questionnaire for three people: Christie, Walt, and Anna.

Charts 2016-01-06

It's hard to remember what you ate last July

From You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition by Christie Aschwanden

Dot plot comparing Griffey's worst seasons against Kevin Mitchell's and Prince Fielder's careers across five skills: walks, contact, power, running, and defense, measured in percentiles.

Charts 2016-01-06

At his worst, Griffey was slow but powerful

From Griffey In His Prime Was The Second Coming Of Willie Mays by Neil Paine

Dot plot comparing Ken Griffey Jr.'s skills versus Willie Mays and Alex Rodriguez across walks, contact, power, running, and defense by percentile.

Charts 2016-01-06

Griffey was a Willie Mays clone in his prime

From Griffey In His Prime Was The Second Coming Of Willie Mays by Neil Paine

Dot plot comparing Ken Griffey Jr.'s career skills breakdown versus Roger Maris and Al Rosen across walks, contact, power, running, and defense in percentiles.

Charts 2016-01-06

Griffey's whole career was more like Roger Maris's

From Griffey In His Prime Was The Second Coming Of Willie Mays by Neil Paine

Dot plot comparing Barry Bonds's worst seasons against Chipper Jones's and Mel Ott's best seasons across five skills by percentile.

Charts 2016-01-06

Bonds's worsts most similar to Hall-worthy bests

From Barry Bonds Wasn’t Half Bad, Either by Neil Paine

Dot plot comparing Barry Bonds's career skills percentiles versus Willie Mays and Andrew McCutchen across walks, contact, power, running, and defense.

Charts 2016-01-06

Giants and Pirates meet in Bonds's career comps

From Barry Bonds Wasn’t Half Bad, Either by Neil Paine

Dot plot comparing Barry Bonds's baseball skills percentiles versus Chipper Jones and Albert Pujols across walks, contact, power, running, and defense.

Charts 2016-01-06

Nobody was really like Barry Bonds in his prime

From Barry Bonds Wasn’t Half Bad, Either by Neil Paine

Line chart showing year-over-year change in hourly earnings for all workers and non-managers, seasonally adjusted but not inflation-adjusted, from 2008 to 2015.

Charts 2016-01-08

Hourly earnings, change from a year earlier

From Job Growth Was Great In December, But Can It Last? by Ben Casselman

Bar and line chart showing seasonally adjusted monthly job growth from 2008 to 2015, with a red three-month average line dipping to nearly -800k in 2009 before recovering.

Charts 2016-01-08

Monthly job growth (Seasonally adjusted)

From Job Growth Was Great In December, But Can It Last? by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted change in non-agricultural jobs from a year earlier, comparing total and private-sector employment from 2011 to 2015.

Charts 2016-01-08

Non-agricultural jobs, change from a year earlier

From Job Growth Was Great In December, But Can It Last? 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 2016-01-08

What the unemployed are doing one month later

From Job Growth Was Great In December, But Can It Last? by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot showing Powerball lottery jackpot size up to $500 million versus tickets sold through Feb. 12, 2014, revealing a positive correlation.

Charts 2016-01-08

Powerball Lottery Historical Participation

From The $800 Million Powerball Jackpot Is A Stat Nerd Dream Come True by Walt Hickey

Stacked bar chart showing the percent of Alabama's third-down passes that are incomplete, complete with a first down, or complete without a first down, from 2009 to 2015.

Charts 2016-01-08

'Bama wastes over a quarter of third-down passes

From Why Alabama Is Terrible On Third Down by David Goldenberg

Bar chart showing Alabama's third-down conversion percentage difference compared to FBS average from 2009 to 2015, with 2009 and 2015 shown as negative red bars.

Charts 2016-01-08

Alabama is below average on third down

From Why Alabama Is Terrible On Third Down by David Goldenberg

Scatter plot comparing third-down conversion rate overall vs. conversion rate on rushes with less than 10 yards to go for FBS teams, highlighting Derrick Henry 2015, Clemson 2015, Alabama 2015, and Alabama 2014.

Charts 2016-01-08

Rushing on third down

From Why Alabama Is Terrible On Third Down by David Goldenberg

Scatter plot comparing percent wasted third-down completions overall vs. with more than 6 yards to go for FBS teams, highlighting Alabama 2015, Alabama 2014, Clemson 2015, and the national average.

Charts 2016-01-08

Wasted completions

From Why Alabama Is Terrible On Third Down by David Goldenberg

Size comparison of Homo sapiens at 6ft, Titanosaur at 122ft, and Amphicoelias fragillimus at 190ft shown as silhouettes on a scale.

Other 2016-01-11

Dinosaur Size Comparison: Titanosaur vs. Amphicoelias fragillimus

From The Biggest Dinosaur In History May Never Have Existed by David Goldenberg

Horizontal density chart showing projected vote share results for Republican primary candidates, led by Cruz at 26.2%, Trump at 21.1%, and Rubio at 17.8%.

Charts 2016-01-12

Projected results — Republican primary candidates

From How We’re Forecasting The Primaries* by Nate Silver

Scatter plot showing Powerball lottery tickets sold versus advertised jackpot amount, with fast growth, slow growth, and old model trend lines, highlighting the Jan. 9, 2016 drawing.

Charts 2016-01-12

The Powerball lottery is in uncharted territory

From Everyone Is Freaking Out About The $1.5 Billion Powerball, And The Stats Agree by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot with trend line showing adjusted NFL field-goal percentage by season from about 2000 to 2015, with standard error band, titled '2015 is the second-best kicking year ever'.

Charts 2016-01-13

2015 is the second-best kicking year ever

From The Haters Are Losing The War On Kickers by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing NFL field-goal percentage vs. kick distance from 2002 to 2015, with 2015 highlighted in red showing consistently higher accuracy across all distances.

Charts 2016-01-13

2015 kickers were good from every distance

From The Haters Are Losing The War On Kickers by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NFL kickers' value added on kickoffs vs. punts and field-goal attempts in 2015, with bubble size representing total points added per cost.

Charts 2016-01-13

Best all-around kickers of 2015

From The Haters Are Losing The War On Kickers by Benjamin Morris

Connected scatter plot showing NFL field-goal percentage versus average kick distance by year from 2002 to 2015, illustrating that kickers are attempting longer kicks over time.

Charts 2016-01-13

Kickers are taking longer attempts than ever

From The Haters Are Losing The War On Kickers by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing NFL net punting average vs. distance to goal for seasons 2002–2015, with 2015 highlighted in red and prior years in gray gradient.

Charts 2016-01-13

Punters are forever: NFL net punting average vs. distance to goal

From The Haters Are Losing The War On Kickers by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot with connected line showing NFL opponent's average starting yard line versus touchback percentage from 2002 to 2015, illustrating the decline of kick returns.

Charts 2016-01-13

The slow death of kick returns

From The Haters Are Losing The War On Kickers by Benjamin Morris

US choropleth map showing FH Foundation FIND FH heat map with familial hypercholesterolemia probability scores by 3-digit zip code, ranging from less than 1 in 500 to greater than 1 in 165.

Maps 2016-01-13

The FH Foundation's FIND FH Heat Map by 3-Digit Zip Code

From An Algorithm Could Know You Have A Genetic Disease Before You Do by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Scatter plot with trend line showing the percentage of Americans citing debt/deficit as a top priority declining from 2011 to 2015.

Charts 2016-01-14

Americans care less about debt and deficits, too

From Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About The Deficit Anymore? by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing the number of times 'debt' and 'deficit' appear in the Congressional Record by year from 1996 to 2014, with both words peaking around 2011.

Charts 2016-01-14

Congress mentions 'debt' and 'deficit' a lot less

From Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About The Deficit Anymore? by Andrew Flowers

Dual horizontal bar chart comparing average mentions of 'deficit' and 'debt' in Republican presidential debates by candidates and moderators in 2012 vs 2016 election cycles.

Charts 2016-01-14

Talk of 'debt' and 'deficits' has dropped off

From Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About The Deficit Anymore? by Andrew Flowers

Table showing the top three most-edited Wikipedia pages by year from 2001 to 2015, with page names and number of edits, highlighting notable high-edit entries in green.

Tables 2016-01-14

The Wikipedia pages that get edited the most

From The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years by Andrew Flowers, Carl Bialik

Line chart showing the decline in average MLB pitchouts per game from about 0.8 in the late 1980s to around 0.1 by 2015.

Charts 2016-01-14

Pitchouts are on the decline

From Sabermetrics Is Killing Bad Dugout Decisions by Ben Lindbergh

Line chart showing the decline in average sacrifice bunts and intentional walks per MLB game from 1955 to the mid-2010s.

Charts 2016-01-14

Self-sacrifice is going out of style

From Sabermetrics Is Killing Bad Dugout Decisions by Ben Lindbergh

Line chart showing optimal average overpayment in dollars versus number of cards per deck for the sadistic car dealer problem, rising from $50 at 2 cards to near $100 at 10 cards.

Charts 2016-01-15

The sadistic car dealer problem

From Will The Neurotic Basketball Player Make His Next Free Throw? by Oliver Roeder

Dot plot comparing Kyle Lowry's NBA percentile ranks across five statistics between the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, showing improvement in true shooting and defensive BPM.

Charts 2016-01-15

Lowry is back, and better than ever

From Kyle Lowry Could Make Toronto An NBA Finals Dark Horse by Neil Paine

Line chart showing probability of winning NBA championship vs. Box Plus/Minus of team's best player by VORP, 1977-2015, with selected 2015-16 players labeled.

Charts 2016-01-15

Lowry is inching into championship territory

From Kyle Lowry Could Make Toronto An NBA Finals Dark Horse by Neil Paine

Grouped bar chart comparing per-team annual revenue from national TV contracts vs other sources for NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL in 2015.

Charts 2016-01-15

National TV dollars trump local networks in the NFL

From The Rams Won’t Get As Much From LA As The Lakers And Dodgers Do by Neil Paine, Andrew Flowers

Horizontal bar chart comparing national and regional TV contract revenue for Los Angeles-area sports teams, showing the Rams earn no regional TV revenue unlike other LA teams.

Charts 2016-01-15

The Rams can't use LA to boost TV revenue

From The Rams Won’t Get As Much From LA As The Lakers And Dodgers Do by Neil Paine, Andrew Flowers

Table showing candidate net favorable ratings by party (Republicans, Independents, Democrats) for nine 2016 presidential candidates, based on Gallup polling Dec 1 2015–Jan 11 2016.

Tables 2016-01-18

Candidate Net Favorable Ratings, by Party

From Donald Trump Is Really Unpopular With General Election Voters by Nate Silver

Line chart showing Donald Trump's favorable and unfavorable ratings from July 2015 to January 2016, with unfavorable at 56.3% and favorable at 37.2%.

Charts 2016-01-18

Donald Trump Favorable Rating

From Donald Trump Is Really Unpopular With General Election Voters by Nate Silver

Scatter plot showing average defensive passing and rushing DVOA indices for NFL conference championship game participants from 1970 to 2015, highlighting 2015 as notably defensive.

Charts 2016-01-18

A defensive-minded NFL Final Four

From This Might Be The NFL’s Best Defensive Final Four Ever by Neil Paine

Line chart showing cumulative delegate targets for Trump, Cruz, and Rubio in the 2016 Republican primary from February through June, with key contest dates annotated.

Charts 2016-01-19

Trump's and Cruz's front-loaded paths to 1,237

From Beware A GOP Calendar Front-Loaded With States Friendly To Trump And Cruz by David Wasserman

Line chart showing the percentage of women's basketball teams with a female coach from 2008 to 2015, comparing Division I and all NCAA teams.

Charts 2016-01-19

Fewer women are coaching women's basketball

From There Are Fewer Women Coaches In College Basketball Now Than There Were A Decade Ago by MC Barrett

Color-coded weather forecast map showing precipitation or storm probability across the eastern United States, with a gradient from green to red indicating intensity.

Maps 2016-01-20

Eastern US Weather Forecast Map

From D.C., The Snow Is Coming For You by Harry Enten

CMC-GDPS weather model map showing snow accumulation in water equivalent millimeters along the US East Coast from January 20-25, 2016.

Maps 2016-01-20

Snow Accumulation Forecast – Water Eq (mm), Jan 20–25 2016

From D.C., The Snow Is Coming For You by Harry Enten

Line chart showing the average 90-day rolling correlation between the S&P 500 and Shanghai Composite from 2000 to 2016, with 2015 highlighted in red showing rising correlation.

Charts 2016-01-20

... but historically there has been little relationship

From U.S. Markets Won’t Necessarily Follow China Into The Abyss by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing the average 90-day correlation of the S&P 500 and Shanghai Composite from 2015 to early 2016, rising to above +0.75 by late 2015.

Charts 2016-01-20

U.S. and Chinese markets are tracking closely ...

From U.S. Markets Won’t Necessarily Follow China Into The Abyss by Andrew Flowers

Line chart comparing global temperature anomalies from NOAA GlobalTEMP, NASA GISTEMP, UKMO HadCRUT, and NOAA Uncorrected datasets from 1880 to 2010 relative to a 1951-80 base period.

Charts 2016-01-20

Global Analyses Side by Side

From The Record For The Hottest Year Ever Just Got Broken Again by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart showing global temperature departure from 20th century average in degrees Fahrenheit from 1880 to 2015, with 2015 noted as 1.62°F warmer than average.

Charts 2016-01-20

Global Temperature Time Series

From The Record For The Hottest Year Ever Just Got Broken Again by Christie Aschwanden

Google Ngram Viewer line chart showing frequency of a term in books from 1800 to ~2008, with sharp rise after 1980 peaking around 2000.

Charts 2016-01-21

Google Ngram Viewer frequency chart 1800–2008

From The Phrase ‘Mass Shooting’ Belongs To The 21st Century by Oliver Roeder

Bar and dot chart showing annual mass shooting events and five-year averages from 1982 to 2015, based on the Mother Jones database.

Charts 2016-01-21

Mass Shooting Events

From The Phrase ‘Mass Shooting’ Belongs To The 21st Century by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing mentions of the phrase 'mass shooting' on TV news rising from near zero in 2009 to nearly 6k in 2015.

Charts 2016-01-21

The discussion of mass shootings is on the rise

From The Phrase ‘Mass Shooting’ Belongs To The 21st Century by Oliver Roeder

Bar chart showing mentions of the phrase 'mass shooting' in printed news from 1978 to around 2016, with a dramatic spike after 2012.

Charts 2016-01-21

The new ubiquity of "mass shooting"

From The Phrase ‘Mass Shooting’ Belongs To The 21st Century by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot comparing cumulative defensive vs offensive Box Plus/Minus for NBA team benches in 2015-16, with the Spurs as a clear outlier in the top right.

Charts 2016-01-21

One of these benches is not like the others

From The Spurs’ Bench Could Probably Make The Playoffs On Its Own by Neil Paine

Choropleth map of Iowa counties by population density showing locations of 2008 Obama and 2016 Sanders campaign field offices, with cities Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport labeled.

Maps 2016-01-22

Sanders's ground game isn't quite Obama-good

From Sanders’s Iowa Ground Game Is Good — But It Ain’t Obama’s by Joshua Darr

Radar charts comparing relative abilities of Larry Bird, Kawhi Leonard, and Stephen Curry versus the average top-five NBA 3-point shooter across five skill dimensions by quartile.

Charts 2016-01-22

Well-rounded shooters

From Kawhi Leonard Is The Most Well-Rounded Elite Shooter Since Larry Bird by Neil Paine

Choropleth map of Des Moines showing median home values by census tract in 2014 with Republican and Democratic campaign stop locations plotted as colored dots.

Maps 2016-01-22

Fewer events in poorer parts of Des Moines

From Candidates Aren’t Visiting Poorer Parts Of Des Moines by Allison McCann, Ella Koeze

Choropleth map of Des Moines area showing population density by census tract and Republican and Democratic campaign stops from Nov. 2012 through Jan. 2016.

Maps 2016-01-22

More potential voters in western Des Moines

From Candidates Aren’t Visiting Poorer Parts Of Des Moines by Allison McCann, Ella Koeze

NCEP NDFD forecast snowfall accumulation map in inches for the eastern US between January 22-24, 2016, showing up to 38.8 inches of snow along the Mid-Atlantic coast.

Maps 2016-01-22

NCEP NDFD Snowfall Accumulation Forecast Jan 22-24, 2016

From This Blizzard Could Rewrite The Storm Record Books by Matt Lanza

Scatter plot of Republicans in Congress by DW-Nominate first and second dimension scores, highlighting Marco Rubio among Freedom Caucus members in the high-conservative, less-establishment quadrant.

Charts 2016-01-22

Marco Rubio votes like a Freedom Caucus member

From Why Aren’t Republican Leaders Rallying Behind Marco Rubio? by Harry Enten

Horizontal bar chart showing award points accumulated and maximum potential points for five Best Director Oscar nominees, led by George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road.

Charts 2016-01-22

The state of the best director race

From FiveThirtyEight’s Guide To Predicting The Oscars by Walt Hickey

Horizontal bar chart showing award points accumulated and maximum potential points for Best Picture Oscar nominees including Spotlight, The Revenant, Mad Max, and others.

Charts 2016-01-22

The state of the best picture race

From FiveThirtyEight’s Guide To Predicting The Oscars by Walt Hickey

Horizontal bar chart showing award points accumulated and maximum potential points for five Best Actor Oscar nominees including Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender, Eddie Redmayne, Bryan Cranston, and Matt Damon.

Charts 2016-01-22

The state of the race for best actor

From FiveThirtyEight’s Guide To Predicting The Oscars by Walt Hickey

Horizontal bar chart showing award points accumulated and maximum potential points for five Best Actress Oscar nominees including Brie Larson, Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, and Jennifer Lawrence.

Charts 2016-01-22

The state of the race for best actress

From FiveThirtyEight’s Guide To Predicting The Oscars by Walt Hickey

Horizontal bar chart showing award points accumulated and maximum potential points for five Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees, with Sylvester Stallone leading.

Charts 2016-01-22

The state of the race for best supporting actor

From FiveThirtyEight’s Guide To Predicting The Oscars by Walt Hickey

Horizontal bar chart showing award points accumulated and maximum potential points for five Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees including Alicia Vikander, Kate Winslet, Rooney Mara, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Rachel McAdams.

Charts 2016-01-22

The state of the race for best supporting actress

From FiveThirtyEight’s Guide To Predicting The Oscars by Walt Hickey

GFS model forecast map of surface total snowfall in inches across the US for the period ending 2016-01-25 12Z, showing heavy snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Maps 2016-01-23

Surface Total Snowfall of Period [in] — GFS 2016-01-22 00Z 84hr Forecast

From The Most Ominous Snow Forecasts For New York City Were Right by Harry Enten

Color-coded weather map showing NAM model forecast of surface total snowfall in inches across the US for the period ending 2016-01-25 12Z, with heavy snow indicated over the Mid-Atlantic.

Maps 2016-01-23

Surface Total Snowfall of Period [in] — NAM 2016-01-22 84hr Forecast

From The Most Ominous Snow Forecasts For New York City Were Right by Harry Enten

Scatter plot comparing NFL quarterbacks' pressured QBR vs unpressured QBR from 2009-2015, highlighting Brady's low pressured performance despite high unpressured rating.

Charts 2016-01-25

Brady's numbers don't hold up under pressure

From Tom Brady Couldn’t Take The Pressure by Neil Paine

Bar chart showing the number of NBA games in history where one team's offense and opponent's defense both exceeded a given efficiency threshold, highlighting the Warriors-Spurs Jan. 25 matchup as unique at +9.0.

Charts 2016-01-25

Dubs-Spurs is the only matchup of its kind, ever

From Spurs-Warriors Is The Best Defense-Offense Clash In NBA History by Neil Paine

Stacked bar chart showing the number of NBA games pitting the No. 1-ranked offense vs. No. 1-ranked defense by season from 1951 to 2016, split by playoffs and regular season.

Charts 2016-01-25

Top-ranked O-vs.-D matchups are getting rarer

From Spurs-Warriors Is The Best Defense-Offense Clash In NBA History by Neil Paine

Line chart comparing annual percentage change in murders nationally vs. 60 biggest U.S. cities combined from 1988 to 2014, showing cities experience larger swings.

Charts 2016-01-26

Cities see bigger changes in murder rates

From Were There 6 Percent More Murders Last Year, Or 16 Percent? by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing U.S. murders and nonnegligent manslaughters from 1960 to 2014, peaking in the early 1990s near 25,000.

Charts 2016-01-26

Murders peaked in the '90s

From Were There 6 Percent More Murders Last Year, Or 16 Percent? by Carl Bialik

Bar chart showing average percent change in murders by city population size for the first half of 2015, with small towns under 10k and large cities over 500k seeing the biggest increases.

Charts 2016-01-26

Murders rose in small towns and big cities in 2015

From Were There 6 Percent More Murders Last Year, Or 16 Percent? by Carl Bialik

Horizontal bar chart showing award points accumulated and maximum potential points for Best Picture Oscar nominees following the Producers Guild awards.

Charts 2016-01-26

The state of the best picture race

From How Much Do We Need To Know To Predict The Oscars? by Walt Hickey

Gold square graphic showing the number 1 and the label AN UNNATURAL DISASTER, likely a section or chapter marker.

Other 2016-01-26

1 An Unnatural Disaster

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Number 4 graphic labeling 'The Self-Funded Whistleblower' on a gold background, part of a ranked list.

Tables 2016-01-26

4 — The Self-Funded Whistleblower

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Small multiples chart showing blood lead level changes in children across Flint's 9 wards before and after the city switched to Flint River water in April 2014, with arrows indicating direction of change.

Charts 2016-01-26

Blood lead level changes in Flint's children

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Numbered tile showing 2 and the label Flint River, likely part of a ranked list of rivers or waterways.

Tables 2016-01-26

Flint River — Ranked #2

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Small multiples scatter chart showing how blood lead levels in children under 5 changed across Flint's 9 wards before and after the 2014 water source switch, plotted against share of water samples with high lead.

Charts 2016-01-26

How blood lead levels changed in Flint's children

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

A numbered section card showing the number 6 with the label 'What Now?' on a tan background.

Other 2016-01-26

Section 6: What Now?

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Number 5 tile labeled The Relentless Pediatrician on an orange-brown background, part of a ranked list graphic.

Tables 2016-01-26

The Relentless Pediatrician — Ranked #5

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Numbered tile showing rank 3 with the label The Self-Taught Scientist on a tan background.

Other 2016-01-26

The Self-Taught Scientist — Rank 3

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Dot plot comparing Flint water lead levels with all samples included versus two high-lead samples excluded, showing how exclusion dropped the city below the EPA action threshold.

Charts 2016-01-26

The difference two data points can make

From What Went Wrong In Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

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