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December 2016 graphics

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Stata regression output table showing a weighted OLS regression of trump_vs_polls on whitenocollege, whitecollege, and romneymargin with 51 observations, R-squared 0.7812.

Tables 2016-12-01

Stata Regression Output: Trump vs. Polls by Race and Education

From Pollsters Probably Didn’t Talk To Enough White Voters Without College Degrees by Nate Silver

Scatter plot comparing actual vs expected Box Plus/Minus scores for NBA players 1977-2017, highlighting one-dimensional scorers in pink who tend to fall below the zero line.

Charts 2016-12-01

One-dimensional scorers usually disappoint

From DeMar DeRozan Is Less Than The Sum Of His Points by Neil Paine

Scatter plot with cosine curve fit showing percentage of nobody-wins situations as a function of number of villagers, ranging from 0 to 1000.

Charts 2016-12-02

Percentage of "nobody wins" situations as a function of number of villagers

From Can You Unmask The Secret Santas? by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing probability of outcome (nobody wins vs. somebody wins) as a function of kingdom population size on a logarithmic x-axis, with an extrapolation curve.

Charts 2016-12-02

Probability as a function of population size

From Can You Unmask The Secret Santas? by Oliver Roeder

Dot plot showing poll error by state for Trump's margin in late campaign polls versus actual election results, with states sorted by political lean.

Charts 2016-12-02

Where the polls were wrong — and right

From How Much The Polls Missed By In Every State by Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing year-over-year change in hourly earnings for all workers and non-managers from 2008 to 2017, seasonally adjusted but not inflation-adjusted.

Charts 2016-12-02

Hourly earnings, change from prior year

From Trump Will Benefit From Obama’s Strong Job Market by Ben Casselman

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

Charts 2016-12-02

Labor-force participation rate

From Trump Will Benefit From Obama’s Strong Job Market by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing change in manufacturing jobs since December 2007, seasonally adjusted, from 2008 to 2017, with a sharp drop to about -2.3 million by 2010 and partial recovery to about -1.4 million.

Charts 2016-12-02

Manufacturing jobs in recession and recovery

From Trump Will Benefit From Obama’s Strong Job Market by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted year-over-year change in non-agricultural jobs from 2010 to 2017, peaking around +3 million in 2015.

Charts 2016-12-02

Non-agricultural jobs, change from prior year

From Trump Will Benefit From Obama’s Strong Job Market by Ben Casselman

Area chart showing seasonally adjusted U.S. manufacturing jobs from 1970 to around 2016, peaking near 20 million around 1980 and declining to about 12.5 million by 2016.

Charts 2016-12-02

U.S. manufacturing jobs

From Trump Will Benefit From Obama’s Strong Job Market by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the share of unemployed people who found a job versus stopped looking, seasonally adjusted, from 2007 to 2016.

Charts 2016-12-02

What the unemployed are doing a month later

From Trump Will Benefit From Obama’s Strong Job Market by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot of height vs. Box Plus/Minus for NBA guards in the 2016-17 season, highlighting Giannis Antetokounmpo and James Harden as outliers.

Charts 2016-12-02

Giannis is in a height class by himself

From We’ve Never Seen A Player Quite Like Giannis Antetokounmpo by Neil Paine

Dot plot showing Giannis Antetokounmpo's percentile rank among NBA players in nine statistical categories during the 2016-17 season as of Nov. 30.

Charts 2016-12-02

The Greek Freak is good at (almost) everything

From We’ve Never Seen A Player Quite Like Giannis Antetokounmpo by Neil Paine

Table showing favorable opinions of ACA provisions by party affiliation, with percentages for Total Public, Democrat, Independent, and Republican.

Tables 2016-12-02

Many Elements Of ACA Continue To Be Popular Across Parties

From What Trump May Have In Store For Americans’ Health Care

Table showing percentage of Americans with favorable opinions of ACA provisions, broken down by Total, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans.

Tables 2016-12-02

Table 2: Americans' Opinions of ACA Provisions

From What Trump May Have In Store For Americans’ Health Care

Scatter plot showing difference in points above replacement vs. yards per attempt for QBs playing with vs. without a given receiver since 2006, highlighting Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski.

Charts 2016-12-02

With or without Gronk

From Rob Gronkowski Is The Randy Moss Of Tight Ends by Benjamin Morris

Line chart comparing Dallas Cowboys win percentage straight up versus against the spread from 1978 to 2016, showing Vegas usually predicts correctly.

Charts 2016-12-02

Vegas usually bets correctly on the Cowboys

From The Browns Can’t Beat Anyone. Not Even The Spread. by Chase Stuart

Bar chart showing the number of National Security Letter requests sent by the FBI from 2003 to 2015, based on government reports.

Charts 2016-12-03

National Security Letter requests sent by the FBI

From An FBI Error Opens A Window Into Government Demands For Private Info by Dhrumil Mehta

Rankings table of top college football teams by ELO ratings, showing per-game stats and ELO ratings for teams from 1945 to 2016, with 2016 Alabama ranked first.

Tables 2016-12-05

Top College Football Teams by ELO Rating (All-Time Rankings)

From We Rate Alabama The Strongest Team In College Football History by Neil Paine

Line chart showing share of films with at least five top-critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes by days before release and RT score category, July 2006–August 2016.

Charts 2016-12-06

Bad movies don't get early reviews

From When Should You Buy Into A Movie’s Hype? by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing percentage point difference between average Rotten Tomatoes scores before and after film release, grouped by rating tier, July 2006 to August 2016.

Charts 2016-12-06

Don't be fooled by early critic buzz

From When Should You Buy Into A Movie’s Hype? by Walt Hickey

Area chart showing cumulative share of top critics' Rotten Tomatoes reviews published by day relative to film release date, July 2006 to August 2016.

Charts 2016-12-06

When do movie reviews come out?

From When Should You Buy Into A Movie’s Hype? by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing the LA Rams' rank among 32 NFL teams in scoring, yards, and first downs from 2012 through week 13 of 2016, illustrating a decline to worst rank.

Charts 2016-12-06

The Rams have gone from bad to worse

From The Jeff Fisher Rams Are An Offensive Tragedy by Chase Stuart

Stacked area chart showing the projected decline in U.S. veteran population from 2013 to 2043, split between wartime and peacetime veterans.

Charts 2016-12-07

The number of U.S. veterans is projected to fall

From Fewer Than 1 Million American WWII Veterans Survived To Pearl Harbor’s 75th Anniversary by Carl Bialik

Area chart showing the estimated U.S. WWII veteran population declining from about 1.2 million in 2013 to near zero by 2043, segmented by war service overlap.

Charts 2016-12-07

The number of WWII veterans is falling fast

From Fewer Than 1 Million American WWII Veterans Survived To Pearl Harbor’s 75th Anniversary by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing labor force participation rate among women aged 15 and older for Latin American countries from 1990 to around 2013, with All of Latin America and Nicaragua highlighted.

Charts 2016-12-07

More Latin American women are working

From In One Of Latin America’s Poorest Countries, Boosting The Economy Is Women’s Work by Lucia He

Scatter plot showing the difference in LeBron James's true shooting percentage overall vs. when on court with Carmelo Anthony or Chris Paul, by NBA season from 2011-12 to 2015-16.

Charts 2016-12-08

LeBron shoots worse against his best friends

From LeBron Plays A Little Worse Against His Friends by Chris Herring

Scatter plot showing the difference between LeBron James's overall free-throw percentage vs. when playing against the Knicks, Lakers, and Clippers by season from 2011-12 to 2015-16.

Charts 2016-12-08

LeBron struggles at the line vs. big-city teams

From LeBron Plays A Little Worse Against His Friends by Chris Herring

Area chart showing US college fall enrollment for ages 35 and up including graduate students from 1970 to mid-2010s, peaking around 2010 then declining.

Charts 2016-12-08

Fewer older Americans are going to college

From Older Americans Went Back To School During The Recession. Did It Pay Off? by Donna M. Airoldi

Stacked area chart showing total US student loan balances by age group from 2004 to 2015, rising to $1.2 trillion.

Charts 2016-12-08

Student debt is on the rise

From Older Americans Went Back To School During The Recession. Did It Pay Off? by Donna M. Airoldi

U.S. Drought Monitor map of the Southeast region dated November 29, 2016, showing drought intensity by county from D0 Abnormally Dry to D4 Exceptional Drought.

Maps 2016-12-08

U.S. Drought Monitor – Southeast, November 29, 2016

From The Southeast Is Becoming A Wildfire Hotspot by Lyndsey Gilpin

Line chart showing NFL prime-time matchup quality by Elo rating for Sunday, Monday, and Thursday night games across the 2006-2016 seasons.

Charts 2016-12-08

A Thursday-night revival

From Raiders-Chiefs Shows That Thursday Night Isn’t The NFL’s Trash Heap Anymore by Neil Paine

Line chart showing actual and projected probability of earning more than your parents by birth year and parents' income percentile, comparing 1940 and 1980 birth cohorts under different inequality scenarios.

Charts 2016-12-08

Rising inequality is hurting mobility

From Inequality Is Killing The American Dream by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the declining probability of Americans earning more than their parents at the same age, by birth year from 1940 to 1985, with separate lines for age 30 and age 40.

Charts 2016-12-08

The eroding of the American dream

From Inequality Is Killing The American Dream by Ben Casselman

Dot plot showing the probability that everybody unmasks their Secret Santa as a function of n (2n+1 people total), converging near 0.31 as n increases.

Charts 2016-12-09

Probability that everybody unmasks their Secret Santa

From How Much Gold Would Push You Into A War? by Oliver Roeder

Three area charts showing MLB pitch trends from 2002-2016: share of pitches outside the strike zone, share of outside pitches swung at, and share of swings making contact on outside pitches.

Charts 2016-12-12

Batters learned to take what pitchers gave them

From Pitchers Won’t Throw Strikes, So Batters Are Getting Better At Hitting Bad Pitches by Rian Watt

Scatter plot comparing receiving vs. rushing yards per game for the NFL's top 25 players in yards from scrimmage in 2016, highlighting Le'Veon Bell, D. Johnson, E. Elliott, and J. Jones.

Charts 2016-12-12

Le'Veon Bell is a double threat

From Le’Veon Bell Is The Most Dominant Player In The NFL by Chase Stuart

Choropleth map of the US showing percent change in cancer deaths per 100,000 by county from 1980 to 2014, with blue indicating decreases and red indicating increases.

Maps 2016-12-13

Percent change in deaths per 100,000 from cancer from 1980 to 2014, by county

From How Americans Die May Depend On Where They Live by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the US showing percent change in deaths per 100,000 from transportation injuries by county from 1980 to 2014, with most counties showing decreases.

Maps 2016-12-13

Percent change in deaths per 100,000 from transportation injuries, 1980–2014, by county

From How Americans Die May Depend On Where They Live by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the US showing percent change in deaths per 100,000 from transportation injuries by county from 1980 to 2014, with blue indicating decreases and orange-red indicating increases.

Maps 2016-12-13

Percent change in deaths per 100,000 from transportation injuries, 1980–2014, by county

From How Americans Die May Depend On Where They Live by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Gallup table showing Americans' favorable opinions of Russia from 2013 to 2016, broken down by age group and party identification.

Tables 2016-12-14

Americans' Opinions of Russia, by Age and Party ID

From Will Trump Take A Honey Badger Approach To Congress?

Scatter plot showing the date of first freeze in NYC by year from 1870 to 2015, with a red 30-year rolling average line trending later over time.

Charts 2016-12-14

First freezes in NYC are occurring later

From New York’s First Freeze Came Late (Again) by Harry Enten

NFL playoff chances table showing make playoffs, win division, first round bye, and win Super Bowl probabilities for 16 teams, with choose-your-own-results matchup columns.

Tables 2016-12-14

NFL Playoff Chances — FiveThirtyEight

From Lions-Giants Is The Biggest Game Of Week 15 by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart showing Americans' favorability ratings of Russia, China, Cuba, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea from 2000 to 2016, with Russia showing the most volatility.

Charts 2016-12-14

Americans are unusually shifty about Russia

From All Of A Sudden, Russia Has Become A Partisan Issue by Harry Enten, Jeff Asher

Line chart showing Russia's favorability rating among Americans from 1996 to 2016, annotated with key geopolitical events that influenced opinion shifts.

Charts 2016-12-14

Americans have shifting opinions on Russia

From All Of A Sudden, Russia Has Become A Partisan Issue by Harry Enten, Jeff Asher

Line chart showing Russia's favorability rating among Americans by party (Democrats and Republicans) from 2013 to 2016, based on Gallup data.

Charts 2016-12-14

Recent views of Russia

From All Of A Sudden, Russia Has Become A Partisan Issue by Harry Enten, Jeff Asher

Line chart showing the share of Republicans and Democrats who gave the Soviet Union/Russia a positive opinion on a -5 to +5 scale from 1976 to 1994.

Charts 2016-12-14

Share by party who gave the Soviet Union/Russia a positive opinion

From All Of A Sudden, Russia Has Become A Partisan Issue by Harry Enten, Jeff Asher

Line chart showing the share of total annual box-office gross from franchise films for international and domestic markets from 1995 to 2015.

Charts 2016-12-15

Franchises fuel the box office's engine

From Star Wars Killed A Universe To Save The Galaxy by Walt Hickey

Area chart showing the number of Star Wars movies, books, video games, comic books, and TV episodes released per year from the late 1970s to 2015, peaking above 200 in 2015.

Charts 2016-12-15

There's never been this much Star Wars

From Star Wars Killed A Universe To Save The Galaxy by Walt Hickey

A geographic map showing average price per foot by zipcode in what appears to be the San Francisco Bay Area, with colored dots indicating price ranges from $0-5 to $20+.

Maps 2016-12-15

Avg. Price Per Foot by Zipcode

From A Cheaper Christmas Tree May Be Just Around The Corner by Jody Avirgan

Map of New York City showing average price per foot by zipcode, with colored dots ranging from light to dark green indicating price ranges from $0-5 to $20+.

Maps 2016-12-15

Avg. Price Per Foot by Zipcode — NYC Map

From A Cheaper Christmas Tree May Be Just Around The Corner by Jody Avirgan

Dot map of the United States showing locations marked with blue circles of varying shades and sizes across states.

Maps 2016-12-15

US Dot Map with Blue Circle Markers by Location

From A Cheaper Christmas Tree May Be Just Around The Corner by Jody Avirgan

Choropleth map of the US showing arrest-related deaths per million residents by state from June 2015 to March 2016, with darker green indicating higher rates concentrated in the West.

Maps 2016-12-15

Higher rates of arrest-related deaths in the West

From The Government Finally Has A Realistic Estimate Of Killings By Police by Carl Bialik

Figurative map chart showing the balance in the Force over the Galactic Civil War from 0 BBY to 5 ABY, tracking Imperial Navy troop losses across Star Wars films.

Charts 2016-12-16

Figurative map of Imperial Navy troop losses in the Galactic Civil War, 0 BBY-5ABY

From Star Wars, In One Chart by Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze

Figurative map showing Imperial Navy troop losses across Star Wars films from 0 BBY to 5 ABY, with a flowing band tracking troop numbers and Force balance over key battles.

Maps 2016-12-16

Figurative map of Imperial Navy troop losses in the Galactic Civil War, 0 BBY-5ABY

From Star Wars, In One Chart by Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze

Scatter plots comparing NFL teams' average starting yard line position relative to touchback line vs. share of kickoffs returned from end zone, for 2015 and 2016, highlighting Chicago and Jacksonville.

Charts 2016-12-16

Chicago didn't get the memo

From The NFL Is Botching Kickoff Returns by Benjamin Morris

Area chart showing the total number of FBS/Division I-A college football bowl games by season from 1936 to 2016, rising from about 5 to over 40.

Charts 2016-12-16

Bowl season just keeps on growing

From Grading The Many, Many, Many College Football Bowls by Neil Paine

Scatter plot with trend line showing average overall college football bowl game grade by season from 1960 to 2016, illustrating a declining trend in bowl quality.

Charts 2016-12-16

The typical bowl has been getting worse

From Grading The Many, Many, Many College Football Bowls by Neil Paine

Two US maps showing candidate campaign stops on Sept. 1, with a dot marking Trump's stop and a dot marking Clinton's stop.

Maps 2016-12-16

Candidate Campaign Stops – Sept. 1

From The Last 10 Weeks Of 2016 Campaign Stops In One Handy Gif by Matthew Conlen

Line chart showing domestic box office cumulative earnings over 60 days for 14 films with similar opening weekends to Rogue One, highlighting The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2.

Charts 2016-12-19

What movies performed most like Rogue One?

From How Much More Money Could ‘Rogue One’ Make? by Walt Hickey

Color-coded table showing increase in a team's odds of winning the World Series based on two-year increases in payroll and WAR talent.

Tables 2016-12-21

How to shop for a World Series

From The 2016 Cubs Won Just Like The 1997 Marlins Did by Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing two-year payroll increase vs. two-year net projected WAR added for World Series winners from 1987 to 2016, with notable teams labeled.

Charts 2016-12-21

Shopping for a championship

From The 2016 Cubs Won Just Like The 1997 Marlins Did by Neil Paine

Line chart showing monthly Google search interest for 'War on Christmas' from 2004 to 2017, indexed to the peak in December 2005.

Charts 2016-12-21

Searches for 'War on Christmas' on Google

From The ‘War On Christmas’ Is As Stale As Last Year’s Fruitcake by Dhrumil Mehta

Hand-drawn postcard data visualization tracking a week of podcast listening habits using tangled earbud cord lines, with a legend explaining knot types, host gender, and listening duration.

Other 2016-12-22

Dear (FiveThirtyEight) Data: A Week of Podcasts

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

Hand-drawn postcard data visualization tracking podcast listening habits using colored patterns for categories and different textures for activities, sent to FiveThirtyEight's Dear Data project.

Other 2016-12-22

Dear Data + FiveThirtyEight: Podcast Listening Tracker Postcard

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

Hand-drawn Dear Data postcard showing a Waterman Butterfly world map with colored lines connecting podcast subject locations to recording locations and the sender, with legend and diversity score graphs.

Maps 2016-12-22

Dear Data – What's the Point Podcast Edition, March 12–17

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

Dear Data postcard hand-drawn infographic tracking a week of podcast listening, with illustrated podcast logos, subscription status, mood symbols, and genre legend.

Other 2016-12-22

Dear Data: A Week of Podcasts

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

A collage of hand-drawn listener-submitted data visualizations and personal charts sent to FiveThirtyEight, showing various creative ways people tracked their daily lives.

Other 2016-12-22

FiveThirtyEight Listener Chart Challenge Submissions

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

A collage of multiple hand-drawn data visualizations, sketches, notes, and infographics submitted as reader responses to FiveThirtyEight.

Other 2016-12-22

FiveThirtyEight Reader-Submitted Hand-Drawn Charts Collage

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

A collage of hand-drawn data visualizations and infographics about podcast listening habits, sent as postcards to FiveThirtyEight.

Other 2016-12-22

Hand-Drawn Podcast Listening Habit Infographics Sent to FiveThirtyEight

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

Hand-drawn postcard infographic tracking when and how the creator listened to podcasts in March, with a legend explaining colors for posture and bar types for headphones vs speakers.

Other 2016-12-22

How Do I Listen? Tracks WHEN and HOW I Listen to Podcasts

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

A collage of hand-drawn data visualizations and infographics submitted by readers tracking their podcast listening habits, featuring charts, maps, timelines, and illustrated graphics.

Other 2016-12-22

Reader-Submitted Podcast Listening Habit Visualizations

From We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver by Jody Avirgan, Kate LaRue

NFL playoff probability table showing NFC East, North, and South teams with win-loss records, division, and percentage chances for various playoff outcomes.

Tables 2016-12-22

NFL NFC Playoff Probabilities by Team

From Dolphins-Bills Is The Game To Watch In Week 16 by Kyle Wagner, Reuben Fischer-Baum

Google Trends line chart showing search interest over time for Federal Bureau of Investigation vs WikiLeaks in the United States from June 1 to November 8, 2016.

Charts 2016-12-23

Google Trends: FBI vs WikiLeaks Search Interest, Jun–Nov 2016

From How Much Did WikiLeaks Hurt Hillary Clinton? by Harry Enten

US map showing the difference between percentage of people who favor 'merry Christmas' vs 'happy holidays' by Census region, based on a December 2016 survey.

Maps 2016-12-23

Mapping the 'War on Christmas'

From Where To Say ‘Merry Christmas’ vs. ‘Happy Holidays’ — 2016 Edition by Andrew R. Lewis, Paul A. Djupe

Scatter plot comparing Trump's 2016 vote share versus the share of state populations favoring 'happy holidays' over 'merry Christmas', with reference lines at 50% on each axis.

Charts 2016-12-23

The 'War on Christmas' vs. Trump support

From Where To Say ‘Merry Christmas’ vs. ‘Happy Holidays’ — 2016 Edition by Andrew R. Lewis, Paul A. Djupe

Waffle chart showing Cleveland Browns' chances of winning 0, 1, or 2 of their final two games: Lose Both 65%, Win One 33%, Win Both 2%.

Charts 2016-12-23

It's not looking good for the Browns

From Are The Browns Really Going To Go 0-16? (Update: No.) by Reuben Fischer-Baum

Line chart showing probability of victory versus number of storm troopers for seven different K values (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100), with higher K values producing slower decay curves.

Charts 2016-12-30

Probability of victory for different K values

From Can You Deal With These Card Game Puzzles? by Oliver Roeder

Map of Oklahoma showing paths of all tornadoes with magnitude 3 or greater from 1950 to 2015, with Moore and the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area highlighted.

Maps 2016-12-30

Is Moore a tornado hot spot or just unlucky?

From The 52 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2016 by Andrei Scheinkman

Choropleth map of the US showing percent change in cancer deaths per 100,000 by county from 1980 to 2014, with Loudoun County VA at -46.0% and Owsley County KY at +45.6% highlighted.

Maps 2016-12-30

Percent change in deaths per 100,000 from cancer from 1980 to 2014, by county

From The 52 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2016 by Andrei Scheinkman

Two US county-level choropleth maps showing GOP vote margin change 2000-2012 and share identifying ethnicity as American, highlighting Appalachian regions.

Maps 2016-12-30

Regions that identify ethnically as "American" have grown much more Republican

From The 52 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2016 by Andrei Scheinkman

Map showing fires around Los Angeles and San Diego metro areas from 2000 to 2015, with city boundaries, 2-mile buffers, fire areas, and overlaps highlighted.

Maps 2016-12-30

Southern California cities have felt the heat

From The 52 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2016 by Andrei Scheinkman

Bubble scatter chart comparing average resulting field position vs. kickoff yards into the end zone for NFL kickoffs in 2015 and 2016, with trend lines and touchback yard lines marked.

Charts 2016-12-30

Stop returning out of your end zone!

From The 52 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2016 by Andrei Scheinkman

Small multiples area charts showing relative Google searches and Google News articles for five 2016 Republican presidential candidates from Aug 2015 to Feb 2016, with Trump dominating both metrics.

Charts 2016-12-30

Trump continues to dominate both news coverage and Google searches

From The 52 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2016 by Andrei Scheinkman