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Three area charts showing how the ACA changed insurance coverage among Americans under 65: employer-sponsored insurance, uninsured share, and public insurance from 2000 to 2015.

Charts 2017-01-03

How did the ACA change insurance coverage?

From As Obamacare Faces Repeal, Its Legacy Is Still Up In The Air by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Dual line chart showing U.S. health care spending as a share of GDP and year-over-year percentage change from 2000 to 2015, with a dotted vertical line marking when the ACA was signed.

Charts 2017-01-03

It's unclear what the ACA did to spending

From As Obamacare Faces Repeal, Its Legacy Is Still Up In The Air by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Area chart showing the share of U.S. population under 65 reporting trouble paying medical bills declining from about 21% in 2011 to about 17% in 2015.

Charts 2017-01-03

Many Americans report less financial burden

From As Obamacare Faces Repeal, Its Legacy Is Still Up In The Air by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Bar chart showing vote preference among likely voters by top issue: Clinton leads 67% to 27% on economy/health care, Trump leads 69% to 20% on corruption/immigration.

Charts 2017-01-03

Vote Preference Among Issue Groups Among Likely Voters

From Do Voters Care About Ethics?

Stacked bar chart comparing age breakdown of registered voters who voted versus did not vote in the 2016 presidential election, showing non-voters were younger.

Charts 2017-01-05

Non-voters were younger than the electorate

From Registered Voters Who Stayed Home Probably Cost Clinton The Election by Harry Enten

Stacked bar chart showing racial and ethnic breakdown of registered voters who did or did not vote in the 2016 presidential election, based on a SurveyMonkey poll.

Charts 2017-01-05

Voters were whiter than non-voters

From Registered Voters Who Stayed Home Probably Cost Clinton The Election by Harry Enten

Table showing NFL teams that used a backup QB during the regular season but started their original starter in playoff games, with PPG and ANY/A changes versus regular season.

Tables 2017-01-05

NFL Backup QB Regular Season, Original Starter in Playoffs: Performance Changes

From The Raiders Are Rolling With Historic Inexperience At QB by Neil Paine

Color-coded payoff matrix showing combined strategies for player A (rows, various raise hands) and player B (columns, call thresholds) at prob=1/3 and prob=2/3.

Tables 2017-01-06

Payoffs for Combined Strategies for A (rows) and B (columns)

From Don’t Throw Out That Calendar! by Oliver Roeder

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

Charts 2017-01-06

Hourly earnings, change from prior year

From Obama Leaves Behind A Job Market That Is Finally (Mostly) Healthy by Ben Casselman

Bar chart showing seasonally adjusted monthly job growth under Obama from 2009 to 2017, with negative months in pink and positive months in black, excluding 2010 Census hiring effects.

Charts 2017-01-06

Job growth under Obama

From Obama Leaves Behind A Job Market That Is Finally (Mostly) Healthy by Ben Casselman

Two line charts showing the U.S. labor force participation rate for ages 16-plus, seasonally adjusted: one from 1970 to 2017 and a zoomed-in view from 2010 to 2017.

Charts 2017-01-06

Labor force participation rate

From Obama Leaves Behind A Job Market That Is Finally (Mostly) Healthy by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted non-agricultural jobs change from prior year for private-sector and total employment from 2010 to 2017.

Charts 2017-01-06

Non-agricultural jobs, change from prior year

From Obama Leaves Behind A Job Market That Is Finally (Mostly) Healthy by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing the number of NBA games meeting Game Score thresholds of 30, 35, and 40 within the first 38 team games per season from 1984 to 2017.

Charts 2017-01-06

Stat-stuffing is back in style

From What’s Behind All These Crazy NBA Stat Lines? by Neil Paine

Line chart showing the U.S. annual murder rate per 100,000 people from 1960 to the mid-2010s, with a projected uptick at the end.

Charts 2017-01-09

U.S. murder rate

From U.S. Cities Experienced Another Big Rise In Murder In 2016 by Jeff Asher

Diverging horizontal bar chart showing percentage of white officers, Black officers, all whites, and all blacks who say the country has made enough changes vs. needs more changes for racial equality.

Charts 2017-01-11

Police, public divided by race over whether attaining equality requires more changes

From Police Officers Say Scrutiny Of Police Killings Has Made Their Job Tougher by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing the share of Americans who support choosing the president by national popular vote, overall and by party (Democrats, Republicans), from 1967 to 2016.

Charts 2017-01-11

Parties split over the Electoral College

From Will Trump Make Vaccines Another Partisan Issue? by Harry Enten

Scatter plot showing every NFL team's win probability added in first and second halves of playoff games from 1990 to 2016, highlighting Chiefs, Giants, Ravens, Packers, Patriots, and Dolphins.

Charts 2017-01-12

The Chiefs lose playoff games early and late

From Is This The Year The Chiefs Finally Have A Playoff Breakthrough? by Neil Paine

Line chart showing the share of residents in various countries confident the U.S. president will do the right thing regarding world affairs, from 2003 to 2016.

Charts 2017-01-13

Do other countries trust the U.S. president?

From Does The United States Really Need To Improve Its Image Abroad? by Maggie Koerth

Line chart showing the share of Americans who think world leaders respect the U.S. president from 2000 to 2016, spanning the Clinton, Bush, and Obama presidencies.

Charts 2017-01-13

Do you think leaders respect the U.S. president?

From Does The United States Really Need To Improve Its Image Abroad? by Maggie Koerth

Line chart showing the share of residents with a favorable view of the United States by country from 2002 to 2016, with Ghana and Kenya highest and Jordan lowest.

Charts 2017-01-13

How the world sees the United States

From Does The United States Really Need To Improve Its Image Abroad? by Maggie Koerth

A grid-based tile chart showing a game board for n=6 with colored squares representing moves by two players P1 (salmon) and P2 (teal).

Charts 2017-01-13

n=6 Two-Player Grid Game Board

From How Long Will It Take To Blow Out The Birthday Candles? by Oliver Roeder

A grid-based chart showing a spiral pattern of two players P1 and P2 on a 7x7 board with nested square outlines, labeled n=7.

Charts 2017-01-13

n=7 Two-Player Grid Spiral Chart

From How Long Will It Take To Blow Out The Birthday Candles? by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing offensive holding penalties per 1,000 run plays at different field positions, comparing calls on the defense's sideline vs. offense's sideline.

Charts 2017-01-13

Holding gets called on the defense's sideline

From NFL Coaches Yell At Refs Because It Freakin’ Works by Noah Davis, Michael Lopez

Two line charts showing defensive penalties per 1,000 pass plays at different field positions, comparing calls near the offense's vs defense's sideline, illustrating sideline bias in NFL officiating.

Charts 2017-01-13

Sideline bias is real

From NFL Coaches Yell At Refs Because It Freakin’ Works by Noah Davis, Michael Lopez

Line chart showing win probability throughout the Green Bay Packers vs Dallas Cowboys NFL game, with GB win at top and DAL win at bottom, tracking from start through end of 3rd quarter.

Charts 2017-01-16

Win Probability - Final: GB vs DAL

From That Cowboys-Packers Game Was As Great As It Seemed by Neil Paine

Line chart comparing public and private Hall of Fame vote shares for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens from 2013 to 2017, showing private ballots consistently lower than public ones.

Charts 2017-01-17

Private votes bring Bonds and Clemens down

From Barry Bonds And Roger Clemens Are Benefiting From Public Hall Of Fame Ballots by Rob Arthur, Greg Matthews

Scatter plot showing expert rankings of US presidents in 2009 versus their public approval ratings on leaving office, with a trend line and Obama's 2017 approval marked.

Charts 2017-01-18

Presidential legacy is linked to approval ratings

From How Will Obama Be Graded By History? by Andrew R. Lewis, Paul A. Djupe

World map showing GISTEMP annual mean temperature anomalies for 2016 relative to the 1951-1980 baseline, with a color scale from blue (cooler) to red (warmer).

Maps 2017-01-18

GISTEMP Annual Mean 2016 Temperature Anomaly Map

From 2016 Was The Hottest Year On Record

Step chart showing cumulative square inches of trade ad space bought in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter for animated films from Nov 2016 to Jan 2017.

Charts 2017-01-18

The best animated film race is competitive

From Who’s Trying To Buy An Oscar Nomination? by Walt Hickey

Step chart showing cumulative square inches of Oscar for-your-consideration ads in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety from Nov 2016 to Jan 2017 for films including Loving, Manchester by the Sea, Sully, Nocturnal Animals, and La La Land.

Charts 2017-01-18

Which films are trying to get an Oscar nod?

From Who’s Trying To Buy An Oscar Nomination? by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot comparing Oscar winning probability vs. ad space bought for films, showing no clear correlation between advertising spend and Oscar odds.

Charts 2017-01-18

You really, really can't buy Oscar buzz

From Who’s Trying To Buy An Oscar Nomination? by Walt Hickey

Hand-drawn Venn diagram showing net rating combinations for Clippers players Paul, Griffin, and Jordan with cutout photos of each player's face.

Other 2017-01-18

Clippers Paul, Griffin, Jordan Venn Diagram Net Ratings

From The Clippers Aren’t The Clippers Without Chris Paul by Neil Paine

A four-column table comparing pre-election, post-election, and FiveThirtyEight empirical views of traditional political journalists on five 2016 election elements.

Tables 2017-01-19

FiveThirtyEight vs. Traditional Journalists: Views on the 2016 Election

From The Real Story Of 2016 by Nate Silver

A three-row editorial table comparing pre-election, post-election, and FiveThirtyEight's empirical views on the impact of the Comey letter on the 2016 election.

Tables 2017-01-19

Impact of Comey Letter: Three Views Compared

From The Real Story Of 2016 by Nate Silver

A text table comparing interpretations of 2016 election polling from traditional political journalists versus FiveThirtyEight's empirical view, before and after the election.

Tables 2017-01-19

Interpretation of the Polling: Journalists vs. FiveThirtyEight

From The Real Story Of 2016 by Nate Silver

A three-row editorial table comparing pre-election, post-election, and FiveThirtyEight views on the proficiency of the Clinton campaign.

Tables 2017-01-19

Proficiency of Clinton Campaign: Three Views Compared

From The Real Story Of 2016 by Nate Silver

A three-row editorial table comparing pre-election and post-election views of traditional political journalists versus FiveThirtyEight's empirical view on the role of the Electoral College in Clinton's 2016 loss.

Tables 2017-01-19

Role of Electoral College: Journalist Views vs. FiveThirtyEight

From The Real Story Of 2016 by Nate Silver

Text-based infographic comparing pre-election, post-election, and FiveThirtyEight empirical views on the role of racial resentment in Trump's 2016 election victory.

Other 2017-01-19

Role of Racial Resentment: Three Views Compared

From The Real Story Of 2016 by Nate Silver

Line chart comparing Grand Slam titles won by age for Federer, Nadal, Sampras, and Djokovic, showing Djokovic trailing the others.

Charts 2017-01-19

Djokovic is behind pace

From Novak Djokovic Is Falling Behind In His Quest To Break Roger Federer’s Record by Carl Bialik

Match summary for Everton 4 vs Man. City 0 on 1/15, showing win/draw probabilities and adjusted goals, shot-based xG, and non-shot xG stats.

Charts 2017-01-19

Everton 4 - Man. City 0 Match Stats and Win Probabilities

From How Our Club Soccer Projections Work by Jay Boice

Color-coded table showing percentage point change in party control of Senate, House, governorships, and state legislatures after each party held the White House for eight years since 1952.

Tables 2017-01-19

A party tends to lose power when it holds the White House

From Barack Obama Won The White House, But Democrats Lost The Country by Clare Malone

Three line charts showing Democrats becoming younger, more diverse, and more liberal over time from 1970 to 2016, using Gallup and General Social Survey data.

Charts 2017-01-19

Democrats are becoming younger, more diverse, and more liberal

From Barack Obama Won The White House, But Democrats Lost The Country by Clare Malone

Line chart showing the share of Democratic presidential vote cast in high-density urban versus rural counties from 2000 to 2016, illustrating growing urban clustering.

Charts 2017-01-19

Democrats are more clustered in cities

From Barack Obama Won The White House, But Democrats Lost The Country by Clare Malone

Two line charts showing the share of U.S. House, Senate, state legislatures, and governorships controlled by Democrats from 1900 to the 2010s, with blue and red shading indicating Democratic and Republican control.

Charts 2017-01-19

Democrats have lost a lot of power

From Barack Obama Won The White House, But Democrats Lost The Country by Clare Malone

Two line charts showing the share of U.S. House, Senate, state legislatures, and governorships controlled by Democrats from 1900 to the 2010s, illustrating Democratic power loss over time.

Charts 2017-01-19

Democrats have lost a lot of power

From Barack Obama Won The White House, But Democrats Lost The Country by Clare Malone

Dual bar chart comparing total executive clemency actions and share by type (commutations, pardons, other) for every U.S. president who took office after 1900, as of Jan. 19, 2017.

Charts 2017-01-19

Obama's clemency focused on commutations

From Obama Granted Clemency Unlike Any Other President In History by Charlie Smart

Scatter plot comparing NFL running backs' average yards before contact vs. league average and yards after contact vs. expectation in the 2016 season, highlighting Bell, Blount, and Freeman.

Charts 2017-01-20

Le'Veon Bell is good before and after he's hit

From NFL Conference Championship Previews: Are Matt Ryan And Le’Veon Bell For Real? by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot comparing 2016 NFL defenses on avg yards before contact vs. league average (x-axis) and avg yards after contact vs. expectation (y-axis), highlighting Patriots, Falcons, Steelers, Packers, and others.

Charts 2017-01-20

The Patriots' defense is great before the tackle

From NFL Conference Championship Previews: Are Matt Ryan And Le’Veon Bell For Real? by Benjamin Morris

Table showing the five best and five worst NBA teams with Carmelo Anthony-like players, listing year, team, player, and playoff result.

Tables 2017-01-20

Best and worst teams with Carmelo clones

From How To Win With Carmelo Anthony by Neil Paine

Table showing average percentile differences between Carmelo-like players and their teammates on top vs bottom teams, highlighting true-shooting and defense as key factors.

Tables 2017-01-20

What should Carmelo's team look like?

From How To Win With Carmelo Anthony by Neil Paine

Line chart showing average implicit gender bias by age for women and men, both rising during teenage years and remaining higher for women throughout life.

Charts 2017-01-21

Gender bias increases during teenage years

From How Unconscious Sexism Could Help Explain Trump’s Win by Carl Bialik

Dot plot showing gender-career implicit bias scores for 404 Clinton and Trump voters by gender and vote choice, from October 2016.

Charts 2017-01-21

Gender bias varies by voter preference

From How Unconscious Sexism Could Help Explain Trump’s Win by Carl Bialik

Line chart showing average implicit gender bias scores by gender and race across political ideology from liberal to conservative, with women scoring higher than men across all groups.

Charts 2017-01-21

Women have stronger implicit gender biases

From How Unconscious Sexism Could Help Explain Trump’s Win by Carl Bialik

Two US choropleth maps comparing pre-election hate crime rates (2010-15, per 100,000 residents) and post-election hate incident rates in the 10 days after Nov. 8, 2016.

Maps 2017-01-23

Hate before and after the election

From Higher Rates Of Hate Crimes Are Tied To Income Inequality by Maimuna Majumder

Line chart showing Chicago's murder rate in murders per 100,000 residents from 1992 to 2016, with a decline from the early 1990s and a spike in 2016.

Charts 2017-01-25

Chicago's murder rate

From Chicago’s Murder Rate Is Rising, But It Isn’t Unprecedented by Rob Arthur

Scatter plot showing Makuuchi division sumo wrestlers with at least one top-two finish since 1909, plotting tournament wins vs second-place finishes, with Yokozuna in purple.

Charts 2017-01-26

Kisenosato finally wins

From Sumo Has Its First Japanese Yokozuna In Nearly Two Decades by Benjamin Morris

Illustrated map infographic showing how Russia's 2010 heat wave caused atmospheric waves that triggered wildfires in Russia and deadly floods in Ladakh, India, with temperature and rainfall data callouts.

Other 2017-01-26

Russia's 2010 Heat Wave and Its Ripple Effects on Weather Systems

From How A Deadly Heat Wave Led To Disastrous Floods 2,000 Miles Away by Kendra Pierre-Louis

Line chart showing survey respondents' views on building a U.S.-Mexico border fence from 2008 to 2017, broken down by Republicans, Democrats, and overall average on a 1-4 scale.

Charts 2017-01-26

Americans are less in favor of building a fence

From Trump’s Election Doesn’t Mean Americans Are More Opposed To Immigration by Dan Hopkins

A scale from 1 to 7 showing how Americans perceived immigration stances in 2012 and 2016, with labeled positions for GOP, Democrats, Obama, Romney, and respondents' own views.

Other 2017-01-26

How Americans perceived stances on immigration in 2012 and 2016

From Trump’s Election Doesn’t Mean Americans Are More Opposed To Immigration by Dan Hopkins

Line chart showing immigration policy views of Democrats, Republicans, and all party affiliations on a 1-7 scale from 2014 to 2016, with all groups trending more liberal over time.

Charts 2017-01-26

Views on immigration have grown more liberal

From Trump’s Election Doesn’t Mean Americans Are More Opposed To Immigration by Dan Hopkins

Line chart showing winning probability for a coin toss game for Player 1 and Player 2 as the number of heads needed to win increases from 1 to 15.

Charts 2017-01-27

Winning Probability For Coin Toss Game

From Can You Win At Tetris? Can You Save A Species? by Oliver Roeder

Table showing animated film nominees ranked by points from awards and nominations, with Zootopia at 228 and Kubo and the Two Strings at 199.

Tables 2017-01-27

Animated Film Nominees: Points from Awards and Nominations

From This Is A Huge Weekend For The Oscars Race by Walt Hickey

Table showing Best Actress nominees ranked by points from awards and nominations, with Isabelle Huppert and Natalie Portman tied at 96 and Emma Stone at 52.

Tables 2017-01-27

Best Actress Nominees: Points from Awards and Nominations

From This Is A Huge Weekend For The Oscars Race by Walt Hickey

Ranking of Best Director nominees by award points, showing Damien Chazelle (113), Barry Jenkins (86), and Kenneth Lonergan (59) with their films and wins listed.

Tables 2017-01-27

Best Director Nominees: Points from Awards and Nominations

From This Is A Huge Weekend For The Oscars Race by Walt Hickey

Ranking of Best Supporting Actress nominees by points from awards and nominations, showing Viola Davis at 100, Michelle Williams at 61, and Naomie Harris at 53.

Tables 2017-01-27

Best Supporting Actress Nominees: Points from Awards and Nominations

From This Is A Huge Weekend For The Oscars Race by Walt Hickey

Partial table showing documentary nominees with points from awards and nominations; O.J.: Made in America leads with 60 points, 13th has 25.

Tables 2017-01-27

Documentary Nominees: Points from Awards and Nominations

From This Is A Huge Weekend For The Oscars Race by Walt Hickey

Table showing Oscar nominee points from awards and nominations, with Casey Affleck leading at 150 points and Andrew Garfield at 64 points.

Tables 2017-01-27

Oscar Nominee Points from Awards and Nominations

From This Is A Huge Weekend For The Oscars Race by Walt Hickey

Table showing Oscar nominees with points from awards and nominations, listing Mahershala Ali with 101 points and Jeff Bridges with 44 points.

Tables 2017-01-27

Oscar Nominee Points from Awards and Nominations

From This Is A Huge Weekend For The Oscars Race by Walt Hickey

Ranking of Oscar nominees by points from awards and nominations, showing La La Land (117), Moonlight (114), and Manchester by the Sea (104) with their wins listed.

Tables 2017-01-27

Oscar Nominees Ranked by Points from Awards and Nominations

From This Is A Huge Weekend For The Oscars Race by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot showing age of tennis Grand Slam semifinalists from 1987-2017 for men and women, highlighting Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams.

Charts 2017-01-27

Tennis has aged with the greats

From Tennis Is Growing Old With Federer, Nadal And The Williams Sisters by Carl Bialik

Dot plot showing the ideological positions of current Supreme Court justices and how Trump's most likely nominees would shift the court's composition on a liberal-conservative scale.

Charts 2017-01-30

The court's future makeup

From How Trump’s Nominee Will Alter The Supreme Court by Oliver Roeder

Ranked list of Oscar Best Picture nominees by points from awards and nominations, showing La La Land (189), Moonlight (114), and Manchester by the Sea (104).

Tables 2017-01-30

Oscar Best Picture Nominees: Points from Awards and Nominations

From The Oscars Race Just Got A Whole Lot More Interesting by Walt Hickey

Table showing Oscar documentary nominees with points from awards and nominations, listing O.J.: Made in America at 118 points and 13th at 25 points.

Tables 2017-01-30

Oscar Documentary Nominees: Points from Awards and Nominations

From The Oscars Race Just Got A Whole Lot More Interesting by Walt Hickey

Ranking of Oscar nominees by points from awards and nominations, showing Mahershala Ali with 157 points and Jeff Bridges with 44 points.

Tables 2017-01-30

Oscar Nominee Points from Awards and Nominations

From The Oscars Race Just Got A Whole Lot More Interesting by Walt Hickey

Award points ranking showing Viola Davis (Fences, 170 points) and Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea, 61 points) as nominees with their awards won listed below each.

Tables 2017-01-30

Oscar Nominees: Points from Awards and Nominations

From The Oscars Race Just Got A Whole Lot More Interesting by Walt Hickey

Scatter plot of height vs. 40-yard dash times for NFL wide receivers with 400+ receiving yards in 2016, highlighting Julio Jones as unusually tall and fast.

Charts 2017-01-30

Nobody as big as Julio Jones should be so fast

From Julio Jones Is the Best by Neil Paine

Bar chart showing the share of NBA veterans joining a new team who moved to within 100 miles of their birthplace from 1990 to 2016, with annotations for notable players.

Charts 2017-01-30

NBA players are heading home

From The NBA Has A New Generation Of Hometown Heroes by Chris Herring

Scatter plot ranking Supreme Court nominees since 1965 by ideology (liberal to conservative) and qualifications (most to least), with portrait photos and predicted yes-vote counts.

Charts 2017-01-30

Who makes it to the Supreme Court?

From How Conservative A Supreme Court Nominee Can Trump Get Through The Senate? by Harry Enten

Area chart showing the growing difference in winnings between an AI program and human players over 20 days in the Brains vs. AI poker match, with AI lead increasing to over $1.5m.

Charts 2017-01-31

Poker dominance slips from human hands

From A Computer Just Clobbered Four Pros At Poker by Oliver Roeder

US map showing congressional districts that voted for Trump in blue states (red) and for Clinton in red states (blue), illustrating how Trump would have lost 16 electoral votes under Maine-Nebraska style rules.

Maps 2017-01-31

If every state voted like Maine and Nebraska, Trump would have lost 16 electoral votes

From Under A New System, Clinton Could Have Won The Popular Vote By 5 Points And Still Lost by Harry Enten

Line chart comparing Clinton's estimated electoral votes under three systems—current, congressional district, and national vote proportional—across varying popular vote margins.

Charts 2017-01-31

The GOP has a big edge in an Electoral College based on congressional districts

From Under A New System, Clinton Could Have Won The Popular Vote By 5 Points And Still Lost by Harry Enten

Ranking of Oscar acting nominees by points from awards and nominations, showing Denzel Washington with 154 points and Casey Affleck with 150 points.

Tables 2017-01-31

Oscar Nominee Points from Awards and Nominations

From Is Casey Affleck’s Oscar Run In Jeopardy? by Walt Hickey