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Scatter plot showing career yards after age 30 vs. career yards through age 30 for wide receivers who turned 30 in 2009 or earlier, with a trend line and Calvin Johnson's position marked.

Charts 2016-02-01

Megatron is poised to be productive post-30

From Megatron May Retire, But He Isn’t Washed Up by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing yard production by age for NFL wide receivers 1970-2015, highlighting Calvin Johnson's career trajectory against the average and trend lines.

Charts 2016-02-01

Megatron isn't too old to play

From Megatron May Retire, But He Isn’t Washed Up by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NFL receivers' career yards after age 30 versus yards in their 30-year-old season, with Calvin Johnson's position marked by a dashed vertical line.

Charts 2016-02-01

Megatron's 30-year-old production is near the top

From Megatron May Retire, But He Isn’t Washed Up by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing college attendance rates for women and men by parental income percentile, with women consistently higher than men across all income levels.

Charts 2016-02-01

College attendance rates by parental income

From Rich Kids Stay Rich, Poor Kids Stay Poor by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing earnings at age 30 for men and women by parental income percentile, with men consistently earning more and both rising sharply at the top percentile.

Charts 2016-02-01

Earnings at age 30 by parental income

From Rich Kids Stay Rich, Poor Kids Stay Poor by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing employment rates at age 30 for men and women by parental income percentile, with both sexes rising from around 60-64% at the 1st percentile to peaks near 87% for men and 84% for women before declining at the top.

Charts 2016-02-01

Employment rates at age 30 by parental income

From Rich Kids Stay Rich, Poor Kids Stay Poor by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing employment rates for men at age 30 by parental income percentile, comparing those raised by married versus unmarried parents.

Charts 2016-02-01

Employment rates for men at age 30 by parental income and family structure

From Rich Kids Stay Rich, Poor Kids Stay Poor by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing employment rates for women at age 30 by parental income percentile, comparing those with married versus unmarried parents.

Charts 2016-02-01

Employment rates for women at age 30 by parental income and family structure

From Rich Kids Stay Rich, Poor Kids Stay Poor by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing household income percentile at age 30 by parental income percentile for women (blue) and men (orange), with women consistently ranking higher.

Charts 2016-02-01

Household income at age 30 by parental income

From Rich Kids Stay Rich, Poor Kids Stay Poor by Ben Casselman, Andrew Flowers

Scatter plot comparing regular season per-play value over average vs. total plays for Super Bowl QBs from 1970-2015, highlighting Peyton Manning 2015 as well below average.

Charts 2016-02-01

Peyton is way worse than a typical Super Bowl QB

From Peyton Manning Had The Worst Season Of Any Super Bowl Quarterback Ever by Neil Paine

Horizontal bar chart showing award points accumulated and maximum potential points for Best Picture Oscar contenders following the SAG awards, with The Big Short and Spotlight leading.

Charts 2016-02-02

The state of the best picture race

From Can You Fake The Academy To Predict The Oscars? by Walt Hickey

Color-coded seating map of Levi's Stadium showing all section numbers, gates, and the 49ers football field with a north orientation arrow.

Maps 2016-02-02

Levi's Stadium Seating Map – San Francisco 49ers

From The Cheapest Super Bowl Tickets Get The Biggest Markups by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing Google searches in Iowa for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio as a percentage of searches for Donald Trump from January 27 to 31, with both rising toward 50-60%.

Charts 2016-02-02

Interest in Cruz and Rubio rose as Iowa neared

From Where Does Ted Cruz Go From Here?

Bar chart showing the age distribution of 1,868 unrepaired methane leaks in Boston as of March 2, 2015, with 49% older than 5 years and the oldest dating to 1985.

Charts 2016-02-03

How old are Boston's methane leaks?

From Methane Is Leaking All Over The Place by Christie Aschwanden

Google Earth 3D aerial view of Manhattan with red lines showing methane survey routes and concentration spikes from November 27, 2012.

Maps 2016-02-03

Results of methane survey of parts of Manhattan on 27 November 2012

From Methane Is Leaking All Over The Place by Christie Aschwanden

World map with green landmasses and red plus-sign markers scattered across all continents indicating locations of some phenomenon.

Maps 2016-02-03

World Map with Red Plus Markers by Location

From Methane Is Leaking All Over The Place by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart showing total state unemployment trust fund balances for all states adjusted for inflation from 1948 to around 2014, with recession periods highlighted in blue.

Charts 2016-02-03

Total state unemployment trust fund balances

From The Unemployment System Isn’t Ready For The Next Recession by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing percentage of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who say government anti-terrorism policies have not gone far enough, from 2004 to 2015.

Charts 2016-02-03

Most Republicans say govt anti-terror policies have not gone 'far enough'

From Goodbye, Rand Paul; Goodbye, GOP Dovishness by Clare Malone

Scatter plot showing Rand Paul's declining poll support from early 2015 through early 2016, with an illustrated portrait of Paul in the corner.

Charts 2016-02-03

Paul's support fell during the campaign

From Goodbye, Rand Paul; Goodbye, GOP Dovishness by Clare Malone

Step chart showing cumulative GOP endorsement points for Rubio, Bush, Christie, Kasich, and Cruz from Feb 2015 to Feb 2016, with Rubio surpassing Bush at the end.

Charts 2016-02-03

Rubio passes Bush in the race for endorsements

From Marco Rubio Is Now Winning The Race For Endorsements by Aaron Bycoffe

Scatter plot comparing Hillary Clinton's share of Iowa caucus state delegate equivalents by county in 2008 vs. 2016, with most counties above the diagonal indicating greater 2016 support.

Charts 2016-02-04

Clinton's Support in Iowa in 2008 and 2016

From Clinton’s Iowa Performance Reveals New Fault Lines for Democrats by Julia Azari

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted hourly earnings change from a year earlier for all workers and non-managers from 2008 to 2016.

Charts 2016-02-05

Hourly earnings, change from a year earlier

From Slower Job Growth Doesn’t Mean We’re Headed For A Recession by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted year-over-year change in non-agricultural jobs (total and private) from 2011 to 2016, peaking around +3 million in 2015.

Charts 2016-02-05

Non-agricultural jobs, change from a year earlier

From Slower Job Growth Doesn’t Mean We’re Headed For A Recession by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the prime-age employment rate for ages 25 to 54, seasonally adjusted, from 1996 to 2016, with a sharp drop around 2008-2010.

Charts 2016-02-05

Prime-age employment rate

From Slower Job Growth Doesn’t Mean We’re Headed For A Recession by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot showing defensive DVOA indices for better and worse defensive teams in each Super Bowl from 1966 to 2015, highlighting Super Bowl 50 as the third-best defensive matchup ever.

Charts 2016-02-05

Super Bowl 50 is the third-best D matchup ever

From Inside One Of The Best Defensive Matchups In Super Bowl History by Neil Paine

Line chart showing Google searches for Cruz, Rubio, Bush, and Carson as a percentage of Trump searches from Jan 29 to Feb 5, with Iowa Caucus marked on Feb 1.

Charts 2016-02-05

Trump's search dominance is challenged

From Donald Trump Is Losing Ground On Google by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing favorable and unfavorable impressions of socialism by age group, with younger Americans more favorable and older Americans more unfavorable.

Charts 2016-02-09

Young Americans are pretty chill about socialism

From Why Young Democrats Love Bernie Sanders by Nate Silver

Line chart comparing views on government action to reduce wealth differences among Ages 18-29 vs All Americans from 1980 to 2014, showing both groups slightly above the 50 midpoint.

Charts 2016-02-09

Young Americans aren't into wealth redistribution

From Why Young Democrats Love Bernie Sanders by Nate Silver

Table showing Democratic primary candidate support percentages under light and heavy independent turnout scenarios on the Democratic side, with varying shares of independents.

Tables 2016-02-09

Democratic Primary Results by Independent Turnout Scenarios

From New Hampshire’s Independent Voter Myth by Clare Malone

Table showing Republican primary candidate poll percentages across six scenarios varying independent voter turnout, from heavy to light independent turnout on the Republican side.

Tables 2016-02-09

GOP Primary Candidate Support by Independent Turnout Scenario

From New Hampshire’s Independent Voter Myth by Clare Malone

Dot plot comparing Peyton Manning's 2015 season percentile ranks versus his career average across eight QB metrics including completion rate, touchdown percentage, and interception rate.

Charts 2016-02-09

Peyton's un-Manning-like 2015

From 2015 Really Was The Bizarro Peyton Manning Season by Neil Paine

Horizontal range chart showing the fewest and greatest number of days after purchase that roses begin wilting, by florist across 20 US cities, from a Feb. 4, 2016 survey.

Charts 2016-02-10

Roses aren't forever

From The Cheapskate’s Guide To Buying Flowers For Valentine’s Day by Leah Libresco

Scatter plot showing Chris Christie's support in national and New Hampshire GOP polls from 2015 to 2016, with red dots for NH polls and gray dots for national polls.

Charts 2016-02-10

Chris Christie's N.H. gamble went bust

From Why Chris Christie Failed by Nate Silver

Scatter plot showing Carly Fiorina's support in national polls from 2015 to 2016, with a peak around late September 2015, accompanied by an illustrated portrait of Fiorina.

Charts 2016-02-10

Fiorina had her moment in late September

From Carly Fiorina Peaked Early And Faded Fast by Clare Malone

Grouped bar chart showing voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds in national elections by college enrollment status from 2008 to 2014.

Charts 2016-02-11

College kids like to vote

From College Freshmen Are More Politically Engaged Than They Have Been In Decades by Mikhail Zinshteyn

Grouped bar chart showing percentage of students marking 'Very Good Chance' of participating in protests and demonstrations by race/ethnicity in 2014 and 2015.

Charts 2016-02-11

Expectations of Participating in Student Protests and Demonstrations, by Race/Ethnicity

From College Freshmen Are More Politically Engaged Than They Have Been In Decades by Mikhail Zinshteyn

Line chart showing percentage of students marking civic engagement goals as very important or essential from 2011 to 2015, with seven categories tracked.

Charts 2016-02-11

Recent Increases in the Importance Placed on Civic Engagement, 2011–2015

From College Freshmen Are More Politically Engaged Than They Have Been In Decades by Mikhail Zinshteyn

Line chart showing Freedom House freedom scores from 2002 to 2014 for Japan, United States, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, and China.

Charts 2016-02-11

How free are individual countries? Freedom score by country

From The World Isn’t Less Free Than It Used To Be by Jay Ulfelder

Line chart showing global population-weighted freedom score from 1970 to around 2015, rising from about 4 to just over 5.

Charts 2016-02-11

How free is the world? Global population-weighted freedom score

From The World Isn’t Less Free Than It Used To Be by Jay Ulfelder

Scatter plot comparing turnover rate vs. assist rate for NCAA guards since 2009-10 who average 3+ assists per game, highlighting Kris Dunn's favorable position.

Charts 2016-02-11

Kris Dunn: lots of assists, (relatively) few turnovers

From Kris Dunn’s Improvisational Brilliance Is Good For Providence — And For College Basketball by Matt Giles

Three line charts showing falling West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices, declining U.S. oil drilling rigs, and U.S. oil production from 2006 to 2016.

Charts 2016-02-12

Oil prices are falling ... and companies are cutting back on drilling

From Saudi Arabia Is Winning Its War Against The U.S. Oil Industry by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot showing average vehicle speed vs minimum left-lane travelling speed for N=100 travellers, with regions labeled Fast Lane and Slow Lane Travellers.

Charts 2016-02-12

Average Vehicle Speed vs Minimum Left-Lane Travelling Speed (N=100)

From Will The Dog Catch The Duck? by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot showing the average number of car groups versus total number of cars (1 to 100) for the FiveThirtyEight traffic jam Riddler solution.

Charts 2016-02-12

The solution for the traffic jam Riddler

From Will The Dog Catch The Duck? by Oliver Roeder

Dot plot comparing share of men who want each Valentine's Day gift versus share of women who plan to buy or feel expected to buy each gift.

Charts 2016-02-12

Buy your man some chocolate

From Your Valentine Is More Interested In Dinner And A Card Than Anything Else by Leah Libresco

Dot plot comparing share of women who want each Valentine's Day gift versus share of men buying or feeling expected to buy each gift, from a 2016 survey.

Charts 2016-02-12

Get some jewelry for your lady

From Your Valentine Is More Interested In Dinner And A Card Than Anything Else by Leah Libresco

Line chart showing Democratic superdelegate commitments in 2008 for Clinton and Obama from January through June, with Clinton's early lead overtaken by Obama by June 7 when Clinton ended her campaign.

Charts 2016-02-12

Clinton's early superdelegate lead evaporated

From Superdelegates Might Not Save Hillary Clinton by Nate Silver

Horizontal bar chart showing net scoring per 100 possessions for NBA All-Star duos (Raptors, Spurs, Heat, Thunder) with and without each player on court.

Charts 2016-02-13

How well do All-Star duos perform together?

From The Impact Of Every NBA All-Star, Ranked by Benjamin Morris

Venn diagram showing Golden State Warriors net scoring per 100 possessions with and without stars Curry, Thompson, and Green, color-coded from red (negative) to green (positive).

Charts 2016-02-13

The Warriors are bland without Curry

From The Impact Of Every NBA All-Star, Ranked by Benjamin Morris

Google Books Ngram Viewer screenshot showing frequency trends for strict construction, originalism, textualism, and judicial activism in American English books from 1940 to 2008.

Charts 2016-02-14

Google Books Ngram: strict construction, originalism, textualism, judicial activism 1940–2008

From How Scalia Became The Most Influential Conservative Jurist Since The New Deal by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing Justice Scalia's dissent rate versus the average of other justices from 1950 to 2010s, measured as percentage of cases writing an opinion when in the minority.

Charts 2016-02-14

Justice Scalia Dissents

From How Scalia Became The Most Influential Conservative Jurist Since The New Deal by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing Justice Scalia's percentage of cases writing a concurring opinion when in the majority compared to the average of other justices, from 1946 to the 2010s.

Charts 2016-02-14

Justice Scalia concurs

From How Scalia Became The Most Influential Conservative Jurist Since The New Deal by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing the most-written-about Supreme Court justices since 1940, measured as percentage of all names in Google n-gram viewer referring to each justice.

Charts 2016-02-14

The most-written-about Supreme Court justices since 1940

From How Scalia Became The Most Influential Conservative Jurist Since The New Deal by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing Martin-Quinn ideological scores of Supreme Court justices from 1986 to 2014, highlighting Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist, and Alito as conservative justices.

Charts 2016-02-15

How conservative was Scalia? Ideological ratings of Supreme Court justices, 1986-2014

From Scalia Was Almost Never The Most Conservative Justice On The Supreme Court by Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn

Line chart showing the percentage of time Justice Scalia was in the majority from 1985 to 2015, for all cases and non-unanimous cases.

Charts 2016-02-15

Scalia was usually on the winning side

From Scalia Was Almost Never The Most Conservative Justice On The Supreme Court by Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn

Line chart showing popularity rank trends of top dog breeds including Beagle, Poodle, Labrador Retriever, and Cocker Spaniel from 1935 to 2010s.

Charts 2016-02-16

America's best best friends

From Terriers Were Once The Greatest Dogs In The World by Oliver Roeder

Illustrated guide to six top terrier breeds competing at Westminster, numbered and labeled with sketched drawings of each dog.

Other 2016-02-16

Get To Know Your Terriers: Six Top Breeds at Westminster

From Terriers Were Once The Greatest Dogs In The World by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the declining breed popularity ranks of four terrier breeds (Scottish, Airedale, Wire Fox, and Sealyham) from 1935 to the 2010s according to the American Kennel Club.

Charts 2016-02-16

How the mighty terriers have fallen

From Terriers Were Once The Greatest Dogs In The World by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing American Kennel Club popularity ranks for Siberian Husky, Maltese, Rottweiler, and French Bulldog breeds from 1935 to the 2010s.

Charts 2016-02-16

Old dogs, new prominence: Breed popularity ranks, since 1935

From Terriers Were Once The Greatest Dogs In The World by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing breed popularity ranks for all terriers since 1935, with the Yorkshire Terrier highlighted rising to near 1st place by the 2010s.

Charts 2016-02-16

One terrier to save them all

From Terriers Were Once The Greatest Dogs In The World by Oliver Roeder

Area chart showing total AKC-recognized dog breeds from 1880 to 2016, with terriers highlighted as a subset declining from 19% to 16.4% of all breeds.

Charts 2016-02-16

Tempering the terriers? Total number of breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club

From Terriers Were Once The Greatest Dogs In The World by Oliver Roeder

Dot/strip chart showing Westminster Kennel Club Best in Show winners by breed group from 1907 to the 2010s, with Terriers dominating in orange and other groups in dark red.

Charts 2016-02-16

Terriers have dominated Westminster

From Terriers Were Once The Greatest Dogs In The World by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot showing vote share differential between Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney in Texas in 2012 versus percent Hispanic population by county, with a positive trend line.

Charts 2016-02-16

Hispanics in Texas picked Cruz more than Romney

From Rubio Or Cruz Could Help The GOP Win Over More Latino Voters by Dan Hopkins

Line chart comparing Nevada and U.S. seasonally adjusted unemployment rates from 2005 to 2016, showing Nevada peaking above 14% around 2010-2011.

Charts 2016-02-17

Nevada unemployment rate

From The Presidential Race Is Finally Moving To States With Economic Problems by Ben Casselman

Six grouped bar charts comparing South Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, and New Hampshire on economic and demographic indicators including unemployment, poverty rate, median household income, rural population share, non-Hispanic white share, and bachelor's degree attainment.

Charts 2016-02-17

South Carolina and Nevada are different from Iowa and New Hampshire economically ... and demographically

From The Presidential Race Is Finally Moving To States With Economic Problems by Ben Casselman

Line chart comparing South Carolina and U.S. seasonally adjusted unemployment rates from 2005 to 2016, showing South Carolina peaking near 11.5% around 2009-2010.

Charts 2016-02-17

South Carolina unemployment rate

From The Presidential Race Is Finally Moving To States With Economic Problems by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot showing share of routine jobs vs. Obama's 2012 vote margin over Romney by metropolitan area, with a downward trend line indicating Republican-leaning metros have more routine jobs.

Charts 2016-02-17

Republican-leaning metros have more routine jobs

From Republican-Leaning Cities Are At Greater Risk Of Job Automation by Jed Kolko

FiveThirtyEight table showing projected state-by-state primary results for Bernie Sanders vs Hillary Clinton under two national polling scenarios, with winner and vote margin columns.

Tables 2016-02-17

Where Bernie Sanders needs to win

From Bernie Sanders’s Path To The Nomination by Nate Silver

Horizontal bar chart comparing weighted endorsement points for presidential candidates at the same point in their election cycles, from Bush 2000 at top to Gephardt 1988 at bottom.

Charts 2016-02-18

Leaders in the endorsement primary

From The Party Is Deciding On Rubio by Harry Enten

Line chart comparing Marco Rubio's endorsement points accumulation pace to past Republican nominees in the days before the Iowa caucuses.

Charts 2016-02-18

Rubio endorsement pace vs. past nominees

From The Party Is Deciding On Rubio by Harry Enten

Horizontal bar chart showing status of reported microcephaly cases in Brazil: 3,935 not yet determined, 837 discounted, and 508 confirmed.

Charts 2016-02-18

Reports of microcephaly outpace confirmed cases

From Why It’s So Hard To Prove Zika Is Causing Birth Defects by Christie Aschwanden

Horizontal bar chart showing support and opposition for paid family leave among All adults, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, from a Jan-Feb 2015 AP-GFK survey.

Charts 2016-02-18

Paid family leave is popular with everyone

From Marco Rubio’s Paid Family Leave Plan May Not Work by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing the decline in major work stoppages (strikes and lockouts involving at least 1,000 workers) per year from 1947 to the mid-2010s.

Charts 2016-02-19

Major work stoppages are on the decline

From No One Can Agree How Much The Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans Will Cost by Ben Casselman

Stacked bar chart comparing delegate assignment methods (winner-take-all, proportional, other) for states with high vs. low evangelical Protestant populations.

Charts 2016-02-19

Evangelical states are stingy with delegates

From Ted Cruz Has A Huge Math Problem by David Wasserman

Bar timeline chart showing years each of seven operas was staged by the Metropolitan Opera since 1883, with pink bars for next season's selections and dark bars for others.

Charts 2016-02-19

A selection of next season's Met operas

From The Same Four Operas Are Performed Over And Over by Brian Wise

Horizontal bar chart showing the share of surveyed 9th- and 10th-grade English teachers who assigned each novel, with To Kill a Mockingbird leading at 35%.

Charts 2016-02-19

English teachers LOVE 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

From Everyone Still Reads ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Hayley Munguia

Scatter plot comparing 3-point attempts per game vs. 3-point percentage for NBA players since 1979-80, highlighting Steph Curry's 2016 season as an outlier.

Charts 2016-02-19

Don't hurt 'em, Steph — 3PA vs. 3P% since 1979-80

From The Warriors’ Odds Of Going 73-9 by Kyle Wagner

Horizontal bar chart showing population of Monroe County, Alabama ("Maycomb") in 1930, 1960, and 2014, illustrating population decline from 30.1k to about 22k.

Charts 2016-02-20

"Maycomb" has shrunk — Population of Monroe County, Alabama

From What’s Changed in Harper Lee’s Hometown Since ‘Mockingbird’ by Anne Li, Ben Casselman

Horizontal bar chart showing share of Monroe County residents with a bachelor's degree or higher by race in 2014: White 17%, Black 4%.

Charts 2016-02-20

Educational inequality persists in Monroe County

From What’s Changed in Harper Lee’s Hometown Since ‘Mockingbird’ by Anne Li, Ben Casselman

Line chart showing Monroe County poverty rate declining from about 63% in 1960 to around 21% in 2000, then rising slightly to 26% by 2010.

Charts 2016-02-20

Richer, but still poor: Poverty rate of Monroe County

From What’s Changed in Harper Lee’s Hometown Since ‘Mockingbird’ by Anne Li, Ben Casselman

Bar chart comparing 2014 median household income by race in Monroe County Alabama, showing White residents at $38k and Black residents at $19k.

Charts 2016-02-20

Wide inequality persists in "Mockingbird's" county

From What’s Changed in Harper Lee’s Hometown Since ‘Mockingbird’ by Anne Li, Ben Casselman

Line chart showing Jeb Bush's three-week rolling average net favorability with Republicans declining from about +32 in July 2015 to about +5 in February 2016.

Charts 2016-02-21

The longer Bush ran, the less Republicans liked him

From Jeb Bush’s Path To Defeat Began A Year Ago by Harry Enten

A 2x2 matrix chart showing circuit court judges classified by whether they attended Harvard or Yale Law School and whether they were born on the East or West Coast, with counts in each quadrant.

Charts 2016-02-22

Judges' educational and geographic diversity

From Whomever Obama Picks May Not Meet Scalia’s Definition Of Diversity by Leah Libresco

Horizontal bar chart comparing minority and white share of speaking roles and directors in Hollywood films and TV versus the U.S. population in 2014-2015.

Charts 2016-02-22

Hollywood is pretty white

From Hollywood’s Diversity Problem Goes Deeper Than The Oscars by Ella Koeze

Line chart showing the declining number of #lastman competitors still ignorant of Super Bowl game results from February 8 to February 21.

Charts 2016-02-23

When will you be safe from the Super Bowl?

From At Least 29 People Still Don’t Know Who Won The Super Bowl by Leah Libresco

Line chart showing average general election turnout by self-identified ideology (1=most liberal to 7=most conservative) for 2008, 2010, and 2012, with confidence intervals shown as colored bars.

Charts 2016-02-23

Conservatives (and liberals) vote more

From Ted Cruz’s General Election Strategy Is Wishful Thinking by Dan Hopkins

Scatter plot showing general election turnout vs. share of caucus votes for right-leaning candidates by Iowa county in 2012, with a positive trend line.

Charts 2016-02-23

Right-leaning areas get out the vote

From Ted Cruz’s General Election Strategy Is Wishful Thinking by Dan Hopkins

Horizontal stacked bar chart showing how Republican delegates are assigned by 2012 election results and share of residents with college degrees, comparing winner-take-all, proportional, and other delegate types.

Charts 2016-02-24

Blue and highly-educated states and districts have more winner-take-all delegates

From Republicans’ Last-Ditch Hope To Stop Donald Trump by David Wasserman

Line chart showing the number of #lastman competitors still ignorant of game results declining from 200 on 2/8/16 to about 20 by 2/24, with a dotted line marking when a FiveThirtyEight post went live.

Charts 2016-02-24

In which I unwittingly unleashed an assassin

From I Unleashed A Super Bowl Troll And I’m Sorry by Leah Libresco

Line chart comparing general election turnout from 1996 to 2014 for Black S.C. voters, all S.C. voters, and all U.S. voters, showing Black S.C. voters peaking around 73% in 2008.

Charts 2016-02-25

Black voters in South Carolina are motivated

From South Carolina’s Black Democrats Are Powerful, But What Do They Want? by Farai Chideya

Stacked bar chart showing the estimated share of U.S. adults classified as healthy or unhealthy by other health metrics within each BMI category, from underweight to obese classes II and III.

Charts 2016-02-25

BMI doesn't tell the whole story

From BMI Is A Terrible Measure Of Health by Katherine Hobson

Table showing projected and actual state-by-state vote margins for Bernie Sanders vs. Clinton in 2016 Democratic primaries, with bar charts indicating margin size.

Tables 2016-02-25

The margins Bernie Sanders needs to beat

From Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Need Momentum — He Needs To Win These States by Nate Silver

Line chart showing cumulative For Your Consideration ad space in square inches bought during the Oscar nomination race from Nov 2015 to Jan 2016 for several films.

Charts 2016-02-25

Advertising buys, best picture

From Hollywood Studios Barely Promoted Non-White Actors And Films by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing cumulative For Your Consideration ad space in square inches bought during the Oscar nomination race from Nov 2015 to Jan 2016 for several films, distinguishing those that received acting nominations from those that did not.

Charts 2016-02-25

When did ad buys lead to acting nominations?

From Hollywood Studios Barely Promoted Non-White Actors And Films by Walt Hickey

Stacked area chart showing labor force participation decomposition from 2009 to 2015, breaking down actual rate decline into aging trends, cyclical effects, and residual components.

Charts 2016-02-26

Labor Force Participation Decomposition, 2009–2015

From What Is The Real Unemployment Rate? by Ben Casselman

Bar chart showing percentage of passengers in the wrong seat by cabin class when passenger 1.0 boards, with First Class Good and Bad at 13%.

Charts 2016-02-26

Passengers in the Wrong Seat When Passenger: 1.0 Boards

From Can You Decode The Four Secret Messages? by Oliver Roeder

Shot chart comparing LeBron James's shooting percentages by court zone in 2014-15 versus 2015-16, showing a decline across most areas.

Charts 2016-02-26

LeBron's vanishing stroke

From LeBron’s 3-Point Shot Has Abandoned Him by Neil Paine

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