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Three grouped bar charts comparing unemployment rate, median household income, and share of college-educated population for CO, MA, MN, VT, and VA versus the U.S. average.

Charts 2016-03-01

Educated Elites: Unemployment, Income, and College Degree Share by State

From Super Tuesday Will Be Our Best Look Yet At What Voters Think About The Economy by Ben Casselman

Three bar charts comparing Alaska, Oklahoma, and Texas on unemployment rate, median household income, and mining sector share of GDP, with U.S. averages shown as dotted lines.

Charts 2016-03-01

Energy boomers

From Super Tuesday Will Be Our Best Look Yet At What Voters Think About The Economy by Ben Casselman

Three bar charts comparing unemployment rate, median household income, and change in jobs since 2007 for Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee versus the U.S. average.

Charts 2016-03-01

Southern Strugglers: Unemployment, Income, and Jobs

From Super Tuesday Will Be Our Best Look Yet At What Voters Think About The Economy by Ben Casselman

Horizontal bar chart showing the percentage of top-five NBA draft prospects reaching each NCAA Tournament round in their final college season from 2001 to 2015.

Charts 2016-03-02

How far do elite prospects go in the tournament?

From Elite Prospects Like Ben Simmons Almost Never Miss The Tournament by Neil Paine

Horizontal bar chart showing the furthest NCAA Tournament round reached by No. 1 NBA draft prospects in their final college season, from Play-In to Title Game.

Charts 2016-03-02

Talents like Simmons usually make noise in March

From Elite Prospects Like Ben Simmons Almost Never Miss The Tournament by Neil Paine

Line chart showing Trump's ideal delegate accumulation path post-Super Tuesday to reach 1,237 delegates needed for the GOP nomination, with actual progress shown above FiveThirtyEight targets.

Charts 2016-03-02

Trump's targets post-Super Tuesday

From Donald Trump Is Just Barely On Track To Win The GOP Nomination by Aaron Bycoffe

Line chart showing Ben Carson's polling support in Iowa from June 2015 to February 2016, peaking near 27% in November then collapsing to about 8%.

Charts 2016-03-02

Ben Carson's support in Iowa polls collapsed

From Republicans Liked Ben Carson To The End (But Not Enough To Vote For Him) by Harry Enten, Carl Bialik

Line chart showing Ben Carson's average net favorability rating among Republicans before each debate from August 2015 to February 2016, peaking around +60 in November then declining to about +33.

Charts 2016-03-02

Carson was losing fans but still popular

From Republicans Liked Ben Carson To The End (But Not Enough To Vote For Him) by Harry Enten, Carl Bialik

Line chart showing change in startup rate since 1988 for high-potential startups versus all startups, with high-potential rising and all startups declining sharply.

Charts 2016-03-03

Ambitious startups aren't declining

From The Next Amazon (Or Apple, Or GE) Is Probably Failing Right Now by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing business environment's impact on startup growth from 1988 to 2012, with a projected dashed line, peaking around 1996 and declining into negative territory after 2000.

Charts 2016-03-03

Fewer ambitious startups are succeeding

From The Next Amazon (Or Apple, Or GE) Is Probably Failing Right Now by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot with trend line showing standard deviations of PECOTA-projected MLB win totals by season from 2006 to 2016, illustrating declining parity.

Charts 2016-03-03

Expect less parity in MLB this season

From Bored With ‘Balance’ In Baseball? 2016 Could Be Your Year by Rob Arthur

Line chart showing U.S. power generation from coal and natural gas as a share of total utility generation from 1950 to the mid-2010s, with coal declining and natural gas rising.

Charts 2016-03-04

Natural gas is overtaking coal

From It’s Time To Start Planning For The Next Recession by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing Americans entering the labor force as a share of those out of the labor force, seasonally adjusted, from 1990 to 2016, with two lines: got a job and started looking for work.

Charts 2016-03-04

Americans entering the labor force

From Americans Are Finally Returning To The Workforce by Ben Casselman

Horizontal bar chart showing seasonally adjusted change in jobs last month by sector, with losses in mining, manufacturing, and transportation, and gains in health care, retail, and hotels.

Charts 2016-03-04

Change in jobs last month, by sector

From Americans Are Finally Returning To The Workforce by Ben Casselman

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

Charts 2016-03-04

Hourly earnings, change from a year earlier

From Americans Are Finally Returning To The Workforce by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the seasonally adjusted U.S. labor force participation rate declining from about 65% in 2010 to around 63% by 2016.

Charts 2016-03-04

Labor force participation rate

From Americans Are Finally Returning To The Workforce by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted non-agricultural jobs change from a year earlier for total and private sector from 2011 to 2016.

Charts 2016-03-04

Non-agricultural jobs, change from a year earlier

From Americans Are Finally Returning To The Workforce by Ben Casselman

Six county-level choropleth maps comparing Rubio and Kasich 2016 GOP primary vote share in Alabama, Virginia, and Texas.

Maps 2016-03-04

Rubio and Kasich's overlapping appeal

From Kasich May Have Cut Off Rubio’s Path To The Nomination by David Wasserman

Dot plot comparing percentage of Flint vs. Michigan students testing at least proficient in math and English language arts for 3rd and 8th grade in 2014-15.

Charts 2016-03-04

Flint's students trail the rest of the state

From Flint Has A Chance To Improve More Than Its Water by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Bar chart comparing poverty rates in Flint vs. the U.S. in 2014, showing roughly 45% of total population and 65% of children in Flint live in poverty.

Charts 2016-03-04

Percentage of people living in poverty in Flint in 2014

From Flint Has A Chance To Improve More Than Its Water by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Line chart showing the declining population of Flint, Michigan from nearly 200k in 1960 to about 100k in 2010, based on U.S. Census Bureau data.

Charts 2016-03-04

Population of Flint

From Flint Has A Chance To Improve More Than Its Water by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Horizontal bar chart showing total number of crossword puzzles by publication since May 2003 and the share at least 25% similar to a previously published puzzle.

Charts 2016-03-05

More puzzles don't mean more repeats

From A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World by Oliver Roeder

US electoral map showing a three-way 2016 general election scenario with Trump winning 311 electoral votes, Clinton 181, and Bloomberg 46.

Maps 2016-03-08

If Bloomberg Ran ... Electoral Map Scenario

From Bloomberg Might Have Produced President Trump by Nate Silver

A 2x2 grid placing four 2016 Republican presidential candidates by socioeconomic status and ideological leaning, with illustrated portraits of Kasich, Rubio, Trump, and Cruz.

Other 2016-03-09

The grid of Republican choices

From Marco Rubio Never Had A Base by Nate Silver

Horizontal bar chart showing references to same-sex marriage and related terms in GOP debates by election year: 49 in 2016, 135 in 2012, and 82 in 2008.

Charts 2016-03-09

Gay marriage is less of a buzzword in 2016

From ‘Religious Liberty’ Has Replaced ‘Gay Marriage’ In GOP Talking Points by Anne Li

Horizontal bar chart showing mentions of religious liberty and similar phrases in GOP debates when referencing marriage: 29 in 2016, 8 in 2012, and 0 in 2008.

Charts 2016-03-09

Religious liberty is becoming a hot topic

From ‘Religious Liberty’ Has Replaced ‘Gay Marriage’ In GOP Talking Points by Anne Li

Grouped horizontal bar chart showing college presidents' views on race relations on their own campus versus campuses nationwide, rated Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor.

Charts 2016-03-09

College presidents' views on campus race relations

From College Presidents Say Race Relations Are Just Fine (Students, Not So Much) by Hayley Munguia

Dot plot showing socialism value scores for religious vs non-religious white Americans across six age groups, with non-religious scoring higher in every group.

Charts 2016-03-10

Non-religious white people are more socialist

From Americans May Be Too Religious To Embrace Socialism by Andrew R. Lewis, Paul A. Djupe

Dear Data Week 03 postcard from S. Posavec to Giorgia Lupi tracking a week of thank-yous with a hand-drawn data visualization legend explaining the chart encoding.

Other 2016-03-10

Dear Data Week 03: A Week of Thank Yous

From Dear Data And FiveThirtyEight Want You To Visualize Your Podcast Habits by Jody Avirgan

Dear Data Week 42 hand-drawn postcard sent by S. Posavec to Giorgia Lupi tracking a week of laughter with illustrated legend and data key.

Other 2016-03-10

Dear Data – Week 42: A Week of Laughter

From Dear Data And FiveThirtyEight Want You To Visualize Your Podcast Habits by Jody Avirgan

Hand-drawn infographic using inverted triangle or funnel icons of varying sizes and densities arranged across a white page to represent data quantities.

Other 2016-03-10

Hand-Drawn Funnel Icon Infographic

From Dear Data And FiveThirtyEight Want You To Visualize Your Podcast Habits by Jody Avirgan

Table showing each GOP candidate's most-repeated phrases from 2016 Republican debates ranked by TF-IDF score, covering Trump, Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich.

Tables 2016-03-10

Each GOP candidate's most-repeated phrases

From These Are The Phrases Each GOP Candidate Repeats Most by Milo Beckman

Ranked lists of each 2016 GOP candidate's most-repeated debate phrases by tf-idf score, with highlighted phrases, for Trump, Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich.

Tables 2016-03-10

Each GOP candidate's most-repeated talking points

From These Are The Phrases Each GOP Candidate Repeats Most by Milo Beckman

Stacked bar chart showing each GOP candidate's share of repetitive phrases (tf-idf score over 20) in 2016 election debates: Rubio 52.6%, Trump 18.9%, Cruz 15.8%, Kasich 12.6%.

Charts 2016-03-10

Marco Rubio knows exactly what he's saying

From These Are The Phrases Each GOP Candidate Repeats Most by Milo Beckman

3D surface plot showing a wavy mathematical function with axes labeled your choice, other choice, and a z-axis ranging from about -0.3 to 0.3.

Charts 2016-03-11

3D Surface Plot: Your Choice vs Other Choice

From Should You Shoot Free Throws Underhand? by Oliver Roeder

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast chart showing predicted vote share in Florida for Trump (41.2%), Rubio (27.7%), Cruz (18.9%), and Kasich (10.3%) as of March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in Florida

From What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast chart showing predicted vote share in Illinois for Trump, Cruz, Kasich, and Rubio as of March 14, 2016, with probability distributions.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in Illinois — Polls-plus forecast, March 14, 2016

From What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast chart showing predicted vote share in North Carolina for Trump 42.9%, Cruz 32.7%, Kasich 12.9%, and Rubio 9.6% as of March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in North Carolina

From What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast chart showing predicted vote share in Ohio for Kasich 39.4%, Trump 33.1%, Cruz 19.9%, and Rubio 5.8% as of March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in Ohio — Polls-plus forecast, March 14, 2016

From What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the Florida Republican primary as of March 14, 2016, with Trump at 96% chance of winning, Rubio at 4%, and Cruz under 1%.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the Florida Republican primary

From What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the Illinois Republican primary on March 15, 2016, with Trump at 63%, Cruz at 31%, Kasich at 5%, and Rubio at 1% chance of winning.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the Illinois Republican Primary

From What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the North Carolina Republican primary as of March 14, 2016, with Trump at 89% chance of winning.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the North Carolina Republican primary

From What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the Ohio Republican primary on March 15, 2016, with Kasich at 80% chance of winning and Trump at 19%.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the Ohio Republican Primary

From What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast chart showing predicted vote share in Florida for Clinton at 65.8% and Sanders at 31.1% as of March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in Florida — Polls-plus forecast, March 14, 2016

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast chart showing predicted vote share in Illinois for Clinton at 51.8% and Sanders at 44.1% as of March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in Illinois — Polls-plus forecast, March 14, 2016

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast showing predicted vote share in Missouri for Clinton at 48.8% and Sanders at 48.1%, dated March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in Missouri

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast chart showing predicted vote share in North Carolina for Clinton at 60.7% and Sanders at 36.3%, with probability distribution curves, dated March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in North Carolina

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast chart showing predicted vote share in Ohio for Clinton at 54.9% and Sanders at 42.2% as of March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predicted share of the vote in Ohio — Polls-plus forecast, March 14, 2016

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the Florida Democratic primary on March 15, 2016, with Clinton at over 99% chance of winning and Sanders under 1%.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the Florida Democratic primary

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the Illinois Democratic primary as of March 14, 2016, with Clinton at 90% and Sanders at 10% chance of winning.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the Illinois Democratic Primary

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the Missouri Democratic primary on March 15, 2016, with Clinton at 55% and Sanders at 45% chance of winning.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the Missouri Democratic Primary

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the North Carolina Democratic primary as of March 14, 2016, with Clinton at over 99% chance of winning and Sanders under 1%.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the North Carolina Democratic primary

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight polls-plus forecast for the Ohio Democratic primary as of March 14, 2016, with Clinton at 95% and Sanders at 5% chance of winning.

Charts 2016-03-14

Predictions for the Ohio Democratic Primary

From What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries by Harry Enten

Horizontal stacked bar chart showing combined vote shares for Trump and Cruz versus Rubio and Kasich in 2016 GOP primary elections through March 14, by state.

Charts 2016-03-15

The GOP establishment has gotten its butt kicked

From The GOP’s Establishment ‘Lane’ May Have Always Been A Dead End by David Wasserman

Area chart showing total anti-Trump TV ads airing in North Carolina by sponsor type (Super PAC, Nonprofit, Candidate committee) through noon on March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-15

Anti-Trump ads have surged in North Carolina

From Trump Attack Ads Are Finally Popping Up, But They Might Be Too Late by Farai Chideya

Stacked area chart showing the number of anti-Trump TV ads airing in Florida by sponsor type (Super PAC, Nonprofit, Candidate committee) through noon on March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-15

Florida is flooded with anti-Trump ads

From Trump Attack Ads Are Finally Popping Up, But They Might Be Too Late by Farai Chideya

Stacked area chart showing the number of anti-Trump TV ads airing in Ohio by sponsor type (Super PAC, Nonprofit, Candidate committee) from late February through March 14, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-15

Ohio has seen a bump in Anti-Trump ads

From Trump Attack Ads Are Finally Popping Up, But They Might Be Too Late by Farai Chideya

Dot plot showing Supreme Court nominees by age at nomination, with Merrick Garland highlighted in orange at age 63 as older than most nominees.

Charts 2016-03-16

Garland is old for a Supreme Court nominee

From Merrick Garland Is The Oldest Supreme Court Nominee Since Nixon Was President by Oliver Roeder

Table showing changes to NCAA Tournament teams' probability of reaching the Sweet 16 and Final Four based on top and bottom 5% and 20% of S-curve simulations.

Tables 2016-03-17

What a difference a seed can make

From How Much Did The NCAA Selection Committee Screw Your Team Over? by Neil Paine, Jay Boice

Two tables showing NCAA tournament teams most helped and hurt by their seeding on Selection Sunday, comparing randomized vs FiveThirtyEight model chances for Sweet 16 and Final Four.

Tables 2016-03-17

Whose fortunes changed Selection Sunday?

From How Much Did The NCAA Selection Committee Screw Your Team Over? by Neil Paine, Jay Boice

Dot chart showing average and median Rotten Tomatoes scores for John Goodman movies by his billing position in the credits, with 2nd billing yielding the highest scores.

Charts 2016-03-17

John Goodman is No. 1 when he is No. 2

From John Goodman Is America’s Greatest Supporting Actor by Walt Hickey

Bar chart showing the number of roles John Goodman has had at each billing position from 1st to 14th, peaking at 3rd billing.

Charts 2016-03-17

John Goodman: Screw the first banana

From John Goodman Is America’s Greatest Supporting Actor by Walt Hickey

$Contour plot showing the log ratio of scoring probabilities across dimensionalities, titled Advantages of Lower-Dimensional Basketball, with axes for scoring fraction and compact space dimensionality.$

Charts 2016-03-18

Advantages of Lower-Dimensional Basketball

From Can You Best The Mysterious Man In The Trench Coat? by Oliver Roeder

Line chart comparing manufacturing output and manufacturing jobs percentage change since the end of the most recent recession, from 2009 to 2016, showing output rising to ~21% while jobs only reached ~6%.

Charts 2016-03-18

A renaissance in production, not jobs

From Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back by Ben Casselman

Line chart comparing U.S. manufacturing vs. retail employment seasonally adjusted from 1994 to 2016, showing manufacturing declining sharply while retail surpasses it.

Charts 2016-03-18

From factory floor to shop floor

From Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the relative number of 2016 men's NCAA Tournament brackets created per minute on ESPN.com from Sunday through Thursday, peaking sharply on Thursday.

Charts 2016-03-18

When ESPN.com users finished their brackets

From Late NCAA Bracket Submissions Show We’re A Nation Of Procrastinators by Carl Bialik

Scatter plot showing effective field goal percentage vs. usage rate for qualified NCAA players in 2015-16, with Jones and Walker-Kimbrough highlighted as top Terrapins scorers.

Charts 2016-03-18

Two Terrapins among the most efficient scorers

From These Are The Only 4 Teams With Any Chance Of Beating The UConn Women by Ian Levy

Line chart showing total tweets sent by @VENETHIS (formerly @YOUGAKUDAN_00) from 2011 to 2016, with a sharp spike of 36 million tweets between Jan. 21 and March 1, 2012.

Charts 2016-03-21

How the top tweeter got the record

From The World’s Most Prolific Twitter User Tweets Mostly About Nothing by Carl Bialik

Venn diagram showing former GOP presidential candidates positioned across five ideological factions and their endorsements of Kasich, Cruz, or Trump as of March 23.

Charts 2016-03-21

Former GOP presidential candidates' endorsements, as of March 23

From In Cuba, A Peso Isn’t Always A Peso by Farai Chideya, Christine Laskowski

Table showing the final 14 possessions of the Texas A&M vs Northern Iowa NCAA Tournament game on March 20, 2016, with time left, possession, play, deficit, and win percentage columns.

Tables 2016-03-21

Anatomy of an epic comeback — Final 14 possessions, Texas A&M vs Northern Iowa

From Texas A&M Pulled Off A 1-in-3,000 Comeback by Neil Paine

Line chart showing live win probability for Texas A&M and Northern Iowa during their NCAA Tournament game on March 20, 2016, illustrating A&M's dramatic comeback.

Charts 2016-03-21

Northern Iowa almost had it in the bag

From Texas A&M Pulled Off A 1-in-3,000 Comeback by Neil Paine

Dot chart showing how many times NBA teams overcame point deficits with 35 seconds left in regulation from 2012-13 through present, highlighting Texas A&M's rare -12 point comeback.

Charts 2016-03-21

Times a team overcame a given deficit with exactly 35 seconds left in regulation, 2012-13 season through present

From Texas A&M Pulled Off A 1-in-3,000 Comeback by Neil Paine

Line chart showing Trump's FiveThirtyEight national polling average through Nov. 12, 2015, with high-sensitivity and low-sensitivity trend lines from July to November 2015.

Charts 2016-03-22

Trump's trajectory before the Paris terror attacks

From Past Terrorist Attacks Helped Trump Capitalize On Anti-Muslim Sentiment by Nate Silver

Line chart showing the share of Americans who trust mass media by political party (Democrats, Republicans, Independents) from 1997 to 2015, with Republicans showing the steepest decline.

Charts 2016-03-23

Most Republicans don't trust the media

From Why Donald Trump? by Clare Malone

Scatter plot showing UConn Huskies margin of victory in regular season and NCAA tournament games across four seasons from 2012-13 to 2015-16, through March 22, 2016.

Charts 2016-03-23

Dancing with Breanna Stewart

From It’s The Breanna Stewart Era In College Basketball by Benjamin Morris

Shot chart showing every Breanna Stewart basketball shot across three seasons (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16), with teal dots for made shots and orange dots for missed shots.

Charts 2016-03-23

Every Breanna Stewart shot we can chart

From It’s The Breanna Stewart Era In College Basketball by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing points allowed per defensive play vs. points scored per offensive play for NCAA Division I women's basketball teams 2012-13 to 2015-16, with UConn highlighted as an outlier.

Charts 2016-03-23

Huskies dominate

From It’s The Breanna Stewart Era In College Basketball by Benjamin Morris

Four line charts comparing Breanna Stewart's assists, blocks, defensive rebounds, and steals per 40 minutes against UConn teammates from 2012-13 to 2015-16 seasons.

Charts 2016-03-23

Stewart gets better at everything

From It’s The Breanna Stewart Era In College Basketball by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing points allowed per play defended vs. points scored per play on offense for 2015-16 NCAA Division I women's basketball players, with Breanna Stewart highlighted.

Charts 2016-03-23

Stewart is a force on offense and defense

From It’s The Breanna Stewart Era In College Basketball by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing net points contributed vs. offensive and defensive plays for NCAA Division I women's basketball players from 2012-13 to 2015-16, with Breanna Stewart highlighted as the top outlier.

Charts 2016-03-23

The Breanna Stewart era

From It’s The Breanna Stewart Era In College Basketball by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing the number of terrorist attacks on airports and airplanes versus other transportation in North America and Western Europe from 1970 to the mid-2010s, both declining over time.

Charts 2016-03-23

Attacks on planes and airports have fallen

From Attacks On Transportation Targets Like Those In Brussels Have Become Rarer by Leah Libresco

Line chart comparing cumulative domestic box-office earnings of My Big Fat Greek Wedding versus the average of major films over the last 20 years, across 50 weeks.

Charts 2016-03-23

My Big Fat Greek Wedding's big, steady haul

From The First ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ Was The Blockbuster Nobody Saw Coming by David Goldenberg

A tournament bracket diagram showing odds of 1 in 32,768 for a perfect bracket prediction.

Other 2016-03-23

March Madness Bracket Odds: 1 in 32,768

From The Odds Of A Perfect Bracket Are Too Infinitesimal For My Puny Primate Brain by Walt Hickey

A box-and-whisker plot element showing a statistical distribution alongside odds text reading 1 in 2.

Charts 2016-03-23

Odds 1 in 2 — Box Plot

From The Odds Of A Perfect Bracket Are Too Infinitesimal For My Puny Primate Brain by Walt Hickey

A blank March Madness-style tournament bracket showing the odds of a perfect bracket at 1 in 2,147,483,648.

Other 2016-03-23

Odds of a Perfect Bracket: 1 in 2,147,483,648

From The Odds Of A Perfect Bracket Are Too Infinitesimal For My Puny Primate Brain by Walt Hickey

A blank NCAA-style 64-team tournament bracket showing the odds of a perfect bracket as 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.

Other 2016-03-23

Odds of a Perfect Bracket: 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808

From The Odds Of A Perfect Bracket Are Too Infinitesimal For My Puny Primate Brain by Walt Hickey

A tournament bracket diagram showing a single-elimination bracket structure with odds of 1 in 128 displayed to the right.

Other 2016-03-23

Tournament Bracket Odds: 1 in 128

From The Odds Of A Perfect Bracket Are Too Infinitesimal For My Puny Primate Brain by Walt Hickey

A small tournament bracket diagram showing two matchups feeding into one winner, with odds displayed as 1 in 8.

Other 2016-03-23

Tournament Bracket Odds: 1 in 8

From The Odds Of A Perfect Bracket Are Too Infinitesimal For My Puny Primate Brain by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing declining response rates for five major US surveys from 1985 to 2013, including the National Health Interview Survey and General Social Survey.

Charts 2016-03-23

Fewer Americans are responding to surveys

From This Survey Is Unwieldy And Intrusive — And Invaluable To Understanding Americans’ Health by Maggie Koerth

Line chart showing monthly global temperature anomaly by year since 1880 relative to 1951-80 average, with 2016 highlighted in red far above all other years.

Charts 2016-03-23

So far, 2016 is off the charts

From When Will The World Really Be 2 Degrees Hotter Than It Used To Be? by Eric Holthaus

Dot plot showing results from 29 research teams analyzing the same soccer data on referee red card bias by skin color, with confidence intervals and significance highlighted.

Charts 2016-03-24

Same Data, Different Conclusions

From Failure Is Moving Science Forward by Christie Aschwanden

Side-by-side ranked tables showing Bernie Sanders's and Hillary Clinton's most-repeated phrases from 2016 Democratic debates, scored by tf-idf measure of repetitiveness.

Tables 2016-03-24

Bernie Sanders's and Hillary Clinton's most-repeated phrases

From These Are The Phrases That Sanders And Clinton Repeat Most by Milo Beckman

Ranked table showing the most-repeated phrases by Clinton and Sanders in the 2016 Democratic debates, measured by tf-idf scores, with illustrated portraits of each candidate.

Tables 2016-03-24

Democratic candidates' most-repeated phrases

From These Are The Phrases That Sanders And Clinton Repeat Most by Milo Beckman

Line chart showing Average Winnings, Expected Winnings, and Probability versus Initial Guess from 0 to 1000.

Charts 2016-03-25

Expected Winnings vs Initial Guess

From Should You Pay $250 To Play This Casino Game? by Oliver Roeder

Area chart showing the share of creative leadership positions for Broadway shows filled by women by season from 1975-76 to 2015-16, consistently below 25%.

Charts 2016-03-25

Women have rarely been in charge on Broadway

From ‘Waitress’ Is Making Broadway History With Its All-Female Creative Team by Joanna Kao

Stacked bar chart showing 2016 GOP primary vote share for Trump, Cruz, and Kasich+Rubio across jurisdictions grouped by Obama's 2012 two-party vote share.

Charts 2016-03-25

Cruz does best in the reddest areas

From What A Two-Front War To Deny Trump The Nomination Could Look Like by David Wasserman

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