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Scatter plot showing Martin-Quinn ideology scores of median Supreme Court justices since 1937, with simulated future scores under President Trump and President Clinton.

Charts 2016-08-01

The once and future median justice

From Clinton And Trump Are Both Promising An Extreme Supreme Court by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot showing MLB teams' park-adjusted offensive and defensive indexes (100 = average) through July 31, 2016, highlighting the most balanced teams at the trade deadline.

Charts 2016-08-01

The most balanced MLB teams at the deadline

From MLB Teams Should Go For Talent, Not Balance, At The Trade Deadline by Neil Paine

Grouped bar chart showing predicted turnout gap by party and ideology across four conditions: No Photo General, Photo General, No Photo Primary, and Photo Primary.

Charts 2016-08-03

Predicted Turnout Gap by Party and Ideology

From Tighter Restrictions Are Losing In The Battle Over Voter ID Laws by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot with trend line showing Bryce Harper's average exit velocity per game declining across the 2015 and 2016 MLB seasons.

Charts 2016-08-03

Bryce Harper's exit velocity is slowing down

From Why Bryce Harper Has Gone From Great To Good by Rob Arthur

Scatter plot with trend lines showing Bryce Harper's actual vs predicted average linear weight batted ball value across the 2015 and 2016 MLB seasons.

Charts 2016-08-03

Bryce Harper's hitting has fallen off

From Why Bryce Harper Has Gone From Great To Good by Rob Arthur

Line chart showing the declining number of House and Senate seats with Cook PVI scores between R+5 and D+5 from 1998 to 2014.

Charts 2016-08-04

Number of House and Senate seats with Cook PVI scores between R+5 and D+5, 1998-2014

From The Political Process Isn’t Rigged — It Has Much Bigger Problems by David Wasserman

Line chart showing declining turnout in statewide congressional primaries from 1962 to 2014, with separate lines for Overall, Democratic, and Republican voters.

Charts 2016-08-04

Primary turnout is on the decline

From The Political Process Isn’t Rigged — It Has Much Bigger Problems by David Wasserman

Timeline chart showing which Olympic summer sports have been present, dropped, or reinstated across Games from 1896 to 2016, with gray for present, gold for dropped, and white for reinstated in 2016.

Charts 2016-08-04

The Olympic sports that have come and gone ... and come back again

From The Weird History Of Olympic Sports Just Got Weirder by Allison McCann

Line chart showing year-over-year change in hourly earnings for non-managers and all workers from 2008 to 2016, seasonally adjusted and not adjusted for inflation.

Charts 2016-08-05

Hourly earnings, change from a year earlier

From July’s Strong Job Numbers Still Don’t Match Trump’s Claims by Ben Casselman

Two line charts showing U.S. labor force participation rate for ages 16-plus, seasonally adjusted: one since 1970 and a zoomed-in view since 2010.

Charts 2016-08-05

Labor force participation rate

From July’s Strong Job Numbers Still Don’t Match Trump’s Claims 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 2016.

Charts 2016-08-05

Non-agricultural jobs, change from a year earlier

From July’s Strong Job Numbers Still Don’t Match Trump’s Claims by Ben Casselman

Area chart showing the number of part-time workers who want full-time jobs, seasonally adjusted, from 2007 to 2016, peaking near 9 million around 2009-2010 and declining to about 6 million by 2016.

Charts 2016-08-05

Part-time workers who want full-time jobs

From July’s Strong Job Numbers Still Don’t Match Trump’s Claims by Ben Casselman

Dot plot showing win percentage of Olympic sports in random head-to-head matchups from a FiveThirtyEight survey, with dots for sport average, team events, and individual events.

Charts 2016-08-05

What's the 'best' Olympic sport?

From What Are The Worst Olympic Sports? by Walt Hickey

User-generated 270toWin electoral college map showing Clinton with 270 electoral votes versus Trump with 268, with states colored blue or red.

Maps 2016-08-05

Clinton 270 vs Trump 268 — User-Generated Electoral College Map

From Is Georgia Becoming A Battleground State? by Harry Enten

User-generated 270toWin electoral college map showing Clinton with 275 electoral votes versus Trump with 263, with states colored blue or red.

Maps 2016-08-05

Clinton 275 vs. Trump 263 — User-Generated Electoral College Map

From Is Georgia Becoming A Battleground State? by Harry Enten

Six small multiples scatter/line charts showing Katie Ledecky's swimming times per 100 meters versus the 500 fastest times at each distance (50m to 1500m) from 2010 to 2016.

Charts 2016-08-05

Katie Ledecky is still getting faster

From Katie Ledecky Is The Present And The Future Of Swimming by Benjamin Morris

Line chart comparing Katie Ledecky's fastest swimming times per 100 meters at each race distance versus the 200 fastest women's times since 2000 and the average of the 50 fastest.

Charts 2016-08-05

Ledecky is all alone

From Katie Ledecky Is The Present And The Future Of Swimming by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing standard deviations from the mean for the 200 fastest men and women swimmers at each race distance since 2000, highlighting Katie Ledecky's dominance.

Charts 2016-08-05

The most dominant swimmer this century

From Katie Ledecky Is The Present And The Future Of Swimming by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing FiveThirtyEight election forecast odds from June to November 2016, with Clinton at 83.1%, Trump at 16.8%, and Johnson below 0.1%.

Charts 2016-08-07

How the odds have changed

From Election Update: Clinton’s Post-Convention Bump Is Showing No Signs Of Fading by Harry Enten

Line chart showing projected convention bounces for Clinton and Trump after the 2016 GOP and Democratic National Conventions, with net impact shown as a dotted line.

Charts 2016-08-07

What a convention bounce could look like

From Election Update: Clinton’s Post-Convention Bump Is Showing No Signs Of Fading by Harry Enten

Line chart comparing Katie Ledecky's fastest swimming times to the 500 fastest women's times at each distance from 100m to 1500m since 2000, measured in seconds per 100 meters.

Charts 2016-08-08

Ledecky is changing the definition of sprint

From Ledecky Has Company In A Renewed Assault On Swimming’s Records by Benjamin Morris

Dot plot comparing 2016 Olympic swimmers Peaty, Ledecky, Hosszú, and Sjöström to the 50 fastest swimmers in their events since 2010, measured in standard deviations from the mean.

Charts 2016-08-08

Peaty more dominant than Ledecky on Sunday

From Ledecky Has Company In A Renewed Assault On Swimming’s Records by Benjamin Morris

Dot-and-line chart showing U.S. athletes at the 2016 Rio Olympics who attended at least four Summer Olympics, spanning 1992 to 2016, with each athlete's Olympic appearances marked.

Charts 2016-08-08

U.S. athletes at the 2016 Rio Olympics who have attended at least four Summer Olympics

From Team USA’s Old-Timers Aren’t Dead Yet by Allison McCann, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Stacked area charts comparing free U.S. media coverage value in millions of dollars for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton from October through July, broken down by Online, Broadcast, and Other.

Charts 2016-08-09

Trump and Clinton's free U.S. media

From Clinton Has Nearly Caught Up To Trump In Media Coverage by Carl Bialik

Dot-and-range chart comparing save percentages of primary goalkeepers across eight Olympic and World Cup sports, showing handball keepers have the lowest save rates.

Charts 2016-08-10

Pity the poor handball keepers

From Which Olympic Sport Is Hardest On Its Goalies? by Allison McCann, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart showing implied PPG margin vs. NBA average for Team USA's aggregate opponents at Olympics and FIBA World Cup tournaments from 1992 to 2014.

Charts 2016-08-11

Has the rest of the basketball world peaked?

From Team USA Isn’t Getting Better — World Basketball Is Getting Worse by Neil Paine

Bar chart showing number of artistic gymnasts at the 2016 Olympics by age and gender, with women peaking around age 16 and men peaking around age 24-25.

Charts 2016-08-11

Female gymnasts tend to be very young

From Old Olympians Ride Horses; Young Ones Do Flips by Ella Koeze

Dot plot showing median ages of 2016 Olympians by sport and event, broken down by overall, women, and men, with equestrian athletes being oldest and rhythmic gymnastics youngest.

Charts 2016-08-11

The oldest Olympians ride horses: Median ages of 2016 Olympians in each sport

From Old Olympians Ride Horses; Young Ones Do Flips by Ella Koeze

Bar chart showing the number of male and female equestrians at the 2016 Olympics by age, with a callout for New Zealand's Julie Brougham at age 62.

Charts 2016-08-11

You can ride horses at the Olympics at any age

From Old Olympians Ride Horses; Young Ones Do Flips by Ella Koeze

Six small multiples line charts showing leaguewide HR/PA per year around six baseball eras: Cork, Rubber, Hide, Factory, Steroid, and Current, since 1901.

Charts 2016-08-11

HRs jumped at the start of the steroid era

From Steroids Probably Aren’t Causing Baseball’s Power Surge by Rob Arthur

Line chart showing HR/PA for the top five MLB hitters and the MLB average from 1901 to 2016, illustrating how outliers dominated the steroid era.

Charts 2016-08-11

Outliers ruled the steroid era

From Steroids Probably Aren’t Causing Baseball’s Power Surge by Rob Arthur

Line chart showing change in retail sales since January 2000 adjusted for inflation, comparing non-store retailers, total retail sales, and department stores through 2016.

Charts 2016-08-12

The death of the department store

From The 2016 Election Is About Dividing Up The Pie by Ben Casselman

Dot plot comparing Optimal vs Greedy strategies for expected final salmon weight (kg) as the number of salmon remaining increases from 1 to 35.

Charts 2016-08-12

Expected Final Weight: Optimal vs Greedy Strategy by Salmon Remaining

From Can You Solve The Puzzle Of Pokémon Go Efficiency? by Oliver Roeder

US Electoral College map showing Clinton with 273 electoral votes versus Trump with 265, with states colored blue for Clinton and red for Trump and electoral vote counts labeled.

Maps 2016-08-12

Electoral College Map: Clinton 273 vs Trump 265

From Election Update: How Clinton Could Win Without Florida And Ohio by Harry Enten

Snake-style electoral vote chart showing US states arranged from biggest Clinton margins on the left to biggest Trump margins on the right, with a dashed line marking the 269-vote threshold to win.

Charts 2016-08-12

Electoral votes arranged by Clinton vs. Trump margins

From Election Update: How Clinton Could Win Without Florida And Ohio by Harry Enten

Slope chart showing percentage-point margin in support for presidential candidates in 2012 and 2016 by church affiliation and attendance for Catholics and White Evangelicals.

Charts 2016-08-12

Religious voters are increasingly divided

From Election Update: How Clinton Could Win Without Florida And Ohio by Harry Enten

US Electoral College map showing Scenario 1 where Clinton wins popular vote by 8 points, giving her 375 electoral votes to Trump's 163, with states colored blue for Clinton and red for Trump.

Maps 2016-08-12

Scenario 1: Clinton Wins by 8 Points — Electoral College Map

From What A Clinton Landslide Would Look Like by Nate Silver

US Electoral College map showing Scenario 2 where Hillary Clinton wins the popular vote by 12 points, resulting in 394 electoral votes for Clinton and 144 for Trump.

Maps 2016-08-12

Scenario 2: Clinton wins by 12 points — Electoral College map

From What A Clinton Landslide Would Look Like by Nate Silver

US Electoral College map showing Scenario 3 where Hillary Clinton wins the popular vote by 16 points, giving her 471 electoral votes to Trump's 67.

Maps 2016-08-12

Scenario 3: Clinton Wins by 16 Points — Electoral College Map

From What A Clinton Landslide Would Look Like by Nate Silver

Bar chart showing popular vote margin in U.S. presidential elections since 1868, illustrating that landslide victories have become less common in recent decades.

Charts 2016-08-12

There have been fewer landslides lately

From What A Clinton Landslide Would Look Like by Nate Silver

Three line charts comparing Katie Ledecky's pre-Olympics best split times vs. her Rio Olympics performance for 200M, 400M, and 800M events, with a hypothetical pace line for breaking 8 minutes.

Charts 2016-08-12

Can Ledecky out-Ledecky herself?

From Can Katie Ledecky Break The 8-Minute Barrier? by Benjamin Morris

Two line charts showing Katie Ledecky's split times per 50m for 200m, 400m, and 800m swims before and during the 2016 Olympics, with a hypothetical pace line to break 8 minutes.

Charts 2016-08-12

Eight minutes ain't easy

From Can Katie Ledecky Break The 8-Minute Barrier? by Benjamin Morris

Two line charts comparing Katie Ledecky's preliminary heat splits vs finals splits at the 2015 World Championships and 2016 Olympics, with a hypothetical finals line to break 8 minutes.

Charts 2016-08-12

How does Ledecky's prelim bode?

From Can Katie Ledecky Break The 8-Minute Barrier? by Benjamin Morris

Line chart showing the chance of winning Olympic gold in women's soccer for U.S., Germany, Brazil, France, Sweden and others across three tournament stages, with the U.S. dropping to zero after the quarterfinals.

Charts 2016-08-12

From favorites to the exits

From The U.S. Women Probably Weren’t Going To Win The Gold Anyway by Carl Bialik

Scatter plot comparing actual vs projected NBA wins above replacement for Team USA players the season after playing, 1993-2015, showing 65% play better than expected.

Charts 2016-08-16

Dream Teamers play better than average

From Playing For Team USA Doesn’t Hurt NBA Stars The Next Season by Neil Paine

Line chart showing 5K splits in minutes for Sumgong, Linden, and Flanagan during the first 40 kilometers of the 2016 women's Olympic marathon, with Sumgong accelerating sharply at the end.

Charts 2016-08-16

Jemima Jelagat Sumgong closed strong

From Sprinters Should Start Fast; Everyone Else Should Finish Fast by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart showing 100m splits pacing for Mo Farah and Almaz Ayana, gold medalists in the 10,000 meters at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Charts 2016-08-16

Pacing of the 10,000 meters at the Olympics

From Sprinters Should Start Fast; Everyone Else Should Finish Fast by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart comparing 100-meter splits for Michael Johnson's 1999 world record vs. Wayde van Niekerk's 2016 world record in the 400 meters.

Charts 2016-08-16

Wayde van Niekerk's record-setting run

From Sprinters Should Start Fast; Everyone Else Should Finish Fast by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart comparing Obama's monthly job approval ratings to five other past presidents over years into presidency, with Obama highlighted in blue and George W. Bush labeled in gray.

Charts 2016-08-16

Obama's approval ratings since he took office

From How Obama’s Rising Approval Ratings Compare With Recent Presidents’ by David Nield

Scatter plot comparing House seat gains for the incumbent party versus incumbent party share of the two-party presidential vote across multiple U.S. elections from 1952 to 2012.

Charts 2016-08-17

House and presidential elections compared

From How A Trump Debacle Could Affect The House And State Legislatures by Seth Masket

Horizontal bar chart comparing decathletes and heptathletes average performance relative to Olympic medalists in individual events from 2000-12, grouped by running, jumping, and throwing.

Charts 2016-08-17

Where decathletes and heptathletes are closest to other Olympians

From The Scoring For The Decathlon And Heptathlon Favors Running Over Throwing by Jim Pagels

Horizontal bar chart showing average points earned per event by top 10 decathlon and heptathlon finalists from 2000 to 2012, color-coded by running, jumping, and throwing events.

Charts 2016-08-17

Where decathletes and heptathletes score big

From The Scoring For The Decathlon And Heptathlon Favors Running Over Throwing by Jim Pagels

Line chart showing additional points earned by decathletes in each of 10 events relative to a performance 60 percent worse than the top 10 finalists average, 2000-12.

Charts 2016-08-17

Where should decathletes put in effort?

From The Scoring For The Decathlon And Heptathlon Favors Running Over Throwing by Jim Pagels

Line chart showing additional heptathlon points earned by performance in each of seven events relative to a baseline 50% worse than the top 10 finalists average, 2000-12.

Charts 2016-08-17

Where should heptathletes put in effort?

From The Scoring For The Decathlon And Heptathlon Favors Running Over Throwing by Jim Pagels

Line chart showing U.S. trade deficits with China, Mexico, and Canada as a share of GDP from 1985 to 2015, with China's deficit far exceeding the others.

Charts 2016-08-18

The U.S. trade deficit with China is enormous

From Why Critics Of Free Trade Are Talking China, Not NAFTA by Andrew Flowers

Area line chart showing the monthly share of general news audience who visited Breitbart from April 2015 to July 2016, rising from about 4% to nearly 9%.

Charts 2016-08-18

Breitbart is a growing news presence

From Trump Made Breitbart Great Again by Clare Malone

Dual line charts showing average hourly earnings by hours worked adjusted for inflation for women and men from 1985 to 2015, with three categories: extra time, full time, and part time.

Charts 2016-08-19

Pay rising fastest for those who work the most

From Why Women Are No Longer Catching Up To Men On Pay by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing women's median annual earnings as a share of men's for full-time workers from the late 1960s to 2010s, rising from about 58% to nearly 80%.

Charts 2016-08-19

Women's median annual earnings as a share of men's for full-time workers

From Why Women Are No Longer Catching Up To Men On Pay by Ben Casselman

Area chart showing the annual market share of animated films at the domestic box office from 1995 to 2015, with share rising from about 6% to around 12-15%.

Charts 2016-08-19

Animation is a growing part of the movie biz

From The Seven Ways To Become An Animation Powerhouse by Walt Hickey

Area chart comparing annual domestic tickets sold for digital animated films versus hand-drawn and stop-motion animated films from 1995 to 2016, showing digital dominance.

Charts 2016-08-19

CGI made the human hand (mostly) vestigial

From The Seven Ways To Become An Animation Powerhouse by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot comparing domestic box office gross in 2016 dollars versus Rotten Tomatoes ratings for animated films since 1991, with DreamWorks films highlighted in green.

Charts 2016-08-19

DreamWorks has been prolific and acclaimed

From The Seven Ways To Become An Animation Powerhouse by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot comparing domestic box office gross in 2016 dollars versus Rotten Tomatoes ratings for animated films since 1991, highlighting Illumination, Blue Sky Studios, Sony Pictures Animation, and Laika.

Charts 2016-08-19

Smaller studios are carving out niches

From The Seven Ways To Become An Animation Powerhouse by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot comparing Rotten Tomatoes ratings vs. domestic box office gross for animated films since 1991, highlighting Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios films.

Charts 2016-08-19

The mouse seems to have this thing down

From The Seven Ways To Become An Animation Powerhouse by Walt Hickey

Bar chart showing monthly poll-related tweets from @realDonaldTrump from August 2015 through August 17, 2016, peaking in October 2015 at over 100 tweets.

Charts 2016-08-19

Trump stopped tweeting about polls

From Trump Isn’t Tweeting About The Polls Anymore by Dhrumil Mehta, Harry Enten

Dot chart showing total gold, silver, and bronze medals won by Southeast Asia in Summer Olympics from 1928 through Aug. 19, 2016, with a record high at Rio 2016.

Charts 2016-08-19

Southeast Asia is having its best Olympics

From Southeast Asia Is Having Its Best Olympics Ever by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Area chart showing the number of Summer Olympic events per billion people on Earth from 1896 to 2016, illustrating a long-term decline in gold medals per capita.

Charts 2016-08-19

Global gold medals per capita are falling

From Winning An Olympic Gold Medal Hasn’t Been This Difficult Since 1896 by Carl Bialik

Paired horizontal bar chart comparing Carmelo Anthony's salary as a share of his NBA team total versus Team USA's combined salaries in Olympic years 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016.

Charts 2016-08-22

Anthony's Olympic teammates get paid more than his NBA ones

From Carmelo Anthony Really Is Better On Team USA by Kyle Wagner

Scatter plot of true shooting percentage vs usage percentage for NBA player seasons since 1992, with Carmelo Anthony's seasons highlighted in red.

Charts 2016-08-22

Carmelo is busier -- yet still good! -- in the NBA

From Carmelo Anthony Really Is Better On Team USA by Kyle Wagner

Scatter plot of true shooting percentage vs. usage percentage for Team USA Olympic performances since 1992, highlighting Carmelo Anthony's 2008, 2012, and 2016 appearances.

Charts 2016-08-22

Carmelo is good and less busy in the Olympics

From Carmelo Anthony Really Is Better On Team USA by Kyle Wagner

Grouped bar chart comparing weekly religious activity participation rates for adults raised by same-religion vs. different-religion parents, based on a 2013 PRRI survey.

Charts 2016-08-23

Mixed-religion parents raise kids less religiously

From Religious Diversity May Be Making America Less Religious by Daniel Cox

Scatter plot showing that U.S. states with higher religious diversity scores tend to have a lower share of 'very religious' residents, with a downward trend line and labeled outliers.

Charts 2016-08-23

Religiously diverse states are less religious

From Religious Diversity May Be Making America Less Religious by Daniel Cox

Table showing house effects of pollsters as of Aug. 23, 2016, displaying raw and discounted lean toward Clinton or Trump for online, automated, and live-caller telephone pollsters.

Tables 2016-08-23

Which polls lean toward Clinton and Trump?

From Election Update: Leave The LA Times Poll Alone! by Nate Silver

Horizontal bar chart showing the age difference in months between Serena Williams and her top rivals from 1997 to 2016, with Serena's year-end ranking shown as numbered circles.

Charts 2016-08-23

Age Difference (In Months) Between Williams and Her Top Rivals

From The Ageless Dominance Of Serena Williams And Novak Djokovic by Carl Bialik

Icon-dot infographic comparing Djokovic (age 29.3) vs every player younger than him across Grand Slam titles (12-2), Masters Series titles (30-1), and weeks at No. 1 (213-0).

Other 2016-08-23

Djokovic vs. Every Player Younger Than Him

From The Ageless Dominance Of Serena Williams And Novak Djokovic by Carl Bialik

EPS track guidance map for Low Invest AL99 initialized at 0000 UTC 23 August 2016, showing multiple model forecast tracks across the North Atlantic and eastern US.

Maps 2016-08-23

Low Invest (AL99) EPS Track Guidance, 23 August 2016

From Hurricane Hermine Doesn’t Exist Yet, But Experts Are Starting To Worry by Eric Holthaus

Scatter plot comparing 2008 versus 2004 U.S. presidential election results by state, with quadrants colored red and blue and Utah labeled as an outlier.

Charts 2016-08-24

2008 mostly followed the 2004 pattern

From Trump Is Making More States Competitive. Red States. by Harry Enten

Scatter plot comparing 1992 versus 1988 presidential election results by state, with FL and GA labeled, showing most states clustered near even margins.

Charts 2016-08-24

Most states were close in 1992

From Trump Is Making More States Competitive. Red States. by Harry Enten

Scatter plot comparing 1976 versus 1972 US presidential election results by state, showing little correlation between the two elections, with MA and AR labeled.

Charts 2016-08-24

The 1976 election had little relation to 1972's

From Trump Is Making More States Competitive. Red States. by Harry Enten

Scatter plot comparing 2016 state polling averages versus 2012 presidential election state results, showing Trump has not reordered the electoral map, with VT and UT labeled as outliers.

Charts 2016-08-24

Trump hasn't reordered the 2016 map

From Trump Is Making More States Competitive. Red States. by Harry Enten

Scatter plot comparing 2016 GOP share of registered voters versus Romney's 2012 vote share by county in Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

Charts 2016-08-24

GOP registration still lags Romney vote share

From Republicans’ Voter Registration Gains Probably Aren’t Gains At All by David Wasserman

Line chart showing the share of Summer Olympic gold medals won by U.S. men and women from 1900 to the 2010s, with U.S. women in orange and U.S. men in green.

Charts 2016-08-24

U.S. men and women through Olympic history

From Team USA’s Women Are An Olympic Powerhouse by Natália Mazotte

Area chart showing the share of U.S. gold medals won by women at Summer Olympic Games since 1900, with annotations for Title IX in 1972 and the 1980 Moscow Olympics boycott.

Charts 2016-08-24

U.S. women are earning more golds

From Team USA’s Women Are An Olympic Powerhouse by Natália Mazotte

Line chart showing the number of Summer Olympic events by gender from 1896 to 2016, with male events consistently higher but female events rising sharply since 1980.

Charts 2016-08-24

Women are catching up to men in events

From Team USA’s Women Are An Olympic Powerhouse by Natália Mazotte

Line chart showing inflation-adjusted federal and state TANF spending from roughly 1997 to 2014, with federal spending declining from about $24b to $16b and state spending relatively flat around $15b.

Charts 2016-08-25

Federal and state TANF spending, adjusted for inflation

From Most Welfare Dollars Don’t Go Directly To Poor People Anymore by Andrew Flowers

Line chart showing percentage of federal and state TANF spending by category from 1998 to 2014, with cash assistance declining and other categories rising.

Charts 2016-08-25

Percentage of federal and state TANF spending by category

From Most Welfare Dollars Don’t Go Directly To Poor People Anymore by Andrew Flowers

Two line charts showing U.S. electricity demand in megawatt-hours: one from 2001 to 2016 and a zoomed-in view from January 2015 onward, both showing summer peaks.

Charts 2016-08-25

Electricity usage peaks in the summer

From We Use A Whole Bunch Of Energy Every Summer (And A Lot Of It Goes To Waste) by Maggie Koerth

Sankey diagram showing estimated U.S. energy consumption in 2015 at 97.5 quads, with flows from energy sources through electricity generation to end-use sectors and rejected energy.

Charts 2016-08-25

Estimated U.S. Energy Consumption in 2015: 97.5 Quads

From We Use A Whole Bunch Of Energy Every Summer (And A Lot Of It Goes To Waste) by Maggie Koerth

Line chart showing percentage of missing Statcast tracking data by ball type (Popup, Groundball, Flyball, Line drive) from April 2015 to July 2016.

Charts 2016-08-25

Statcast tracking has improved

From MLB’s Hit-Tracking Tool Misses A Lot Of Hits by Rob Arthur

Calibrated ECMWF EPS sub-tropical cyclone risk map showing percent chance of tropical cyclone across the Atlantic and Gulf Coast for forecast period 08/25/2016-09/08/2016.

Maps 2016-08-26

Calibrated ECMWF EPS - Sub-/Tropical Cyclone Risk

From Foggy Forecasts: Meteorologists Chat About How Tough It Is To Predict A Hurricane by Eric Holthaus

Meteorological chart showing TC analog tracks and Z500 forecast maps for 99L INVEST, with storm tracks on the left and GFS plus top 3 analog forecast panels on the right.

Maps 2016-08-26

TC Analog Tracks and Days 3-10 Z500 Forecast for 99L INVEST

From Foggy Forecasts: Meteorologists Chat About How Tough It Is To Predict A Hurricane by Eric Holthaus

Dot plot showing SurveyMonkey Intelligence's engagement ratio for Pokemon Go from July to August 2016, with weekend days highlighted in red showing higher engagement than weekdays.

Charts 2016-08-26

Now is not the time to use that, apparently

From Our National Love Affair With ‘Pokemon Go’ Might Be Short-Lived by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing average active U.S. users of Pokemon Go from July 3 to August 21, with separate lines for monthly and weekly active users peaking around late July to early August.

Charts 2016-08-26

Prepare for trouble. Make it double! — Pokemon Go Active Users

From Our National Love Affair With ‘Pokemon Go’ Might Be Short-Lived by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing daily U.S. downloads of Pokemon Go from July 3 to August 21, spiking near 460K at launch then declining sharply to around 220K by late August.

Charts 2016-08-26

Professor Oak is slacking off — Daily U.S. downloads of Pokemon Go

From Our National Love Affair With ‘Pokemon Go’ Might Be Short-Lived by Walt Hickey

Bubble chart showing win percentage vs. WWE matches in database for Japanese wrestlers, with bubble size indicating net wins or losses, highlighting Nakamura, Asuka, Itami, Tajiri, and Funaki.

Charts 2016-08-26

The history of Japanese wrestlers in WWE

From WWE’s New Era Began In Japan by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing WWE wrestlers' Japanese match advantage (matches in Japan of winner minus loser) plotted against match importance, comparing SummerSlam and NXT Takeover events.

Charts 2016-08-26

The new WWE developmental territory?

From WWE’s New Era Began In Japan by Benjamin Morris

Horizontal bar chart showing win streaks accompanying the first televised win for WWE NXT champions, comparing men and women wrestlers.

Charts 2016-08-26

WWE's biggest NXT pushes

From WWE’s New Era Began In Japan by Benjamin Morris

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