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April 2017 graphics

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Partial pie chart showing several segments in varying shades of red and pink, with no visible labels or legend.

Charts 2017-04-03

Partial Pie Chart in Red Shades

From Six Degrees Of Trump Opposition by Perry Bacon Jr

Partial view of a pie or donut chart showing a large dark gray segment and a smaller pink segment, with no visible labels.

Charts 2017-04-03

Partial Pie Chart with Gray and Pink Segments

From Six Degrees Of Trump Opposition by Perry Bacon Jr

A partial pie or donut chart showing segments in dark gray, red, and two shades of pink, with no visible labels.

Charts 2017-04-03

Partial Pie Chart with Gray, Red, and Pink Segments

From Six Degrees Of Trump Opposition by Perry Bacon Jr

Partial pie chart showing two pink segments and one large dark gray segment, with no visible labels or legend.

Charts 2017-04-03

Partial Pie Chart with Pink and Dark Gray Segments

From Six Degrees Of Trump Opposition by Perry Bacon Jr

A partial pie or donut chart showing several segments in shades of red, pink, and dark gray, with no visible labels or legend.

Charts 2017-04-03

Partial Pie Chart with Red and Gray Segments

From Six Degrees Of Trump Opposition by Perry Bacon Jr

Partial pie or radial chart showing segments in varying shades of red, pink, and gray with no visible labels.

Charts 2017-04-03

Radial chart with red, pink, and gray segments

From Six Degrees Of Trump Opposition by Perry Bacon Jr

Scatter plot with trend line showing Mets vs. Yankees popularity margin versus years since Mets made playoffs, based on nine NYC polls from 2001 to 2017.

Charts 2017-04-03

New York City baseball fans like winners

From New York Now Has More Mets Fans Than Yankees Fans by Harry Enten

Dot plot showing FiveThirtyEight pitcher scores for every MLB team's projected top five starters, grouped by division, with team and division averages marked.

Charts 2017-04-04

Every rotation in Major League Baseball

From We Rated Every Rotation In MLB. How Does Your Team’s Stack Up? by Chadwick Matlin, Gus Wezerek

Dot plot showing FiveThirtyEight pitcher scores for every MLB team's projected top five starters, grouped by division, with team and division averages marked.

Charts 2017-04-04

Every rotation in Major League Baseball

From We Rated Every Rotation In MLB. How Does Your Team’s Stack Up? by Chadwick Matlin, Gus Wezerek

Four horizontal bar charts showing average strokes gained per round by stroke category and PGA Tour money list rank from 2004-16, illustrating that top earners gain most strokes approaching the green.

Charts 2017-04-05

Tournaments are won off the green

From This Is How You Master The Masters by Todd Schneider

Scatter plot showing potential Republican votes on the AHCA by first- and second-dimension DW-Nominate scores, with likely no voters in teal and likely yes voters in gray.

Charts 2017-04-05

Anti-AHCA Republicans weren't all conservative

From The GOP’s New Health Care Plan Is Doomed Without Moderate Republicans by Harry Enten

Bar chart showing average amount of student debt not being repaid by unpaid student debt percentile of school, with the highest-percentile schools reaching over $10k.

Charts 2017-04-06

A few colleges have big student debt problems

From To Ease The Student Debt Crisis, Hold Colleges Responsible by Doug Webber

Dot plot showing vases in the Met's collection by approximate year of origin and civilization, covering Minoan, Mycenaean, Attic Greek, Etruscan, and Roman categories from 2500 B.C. to 1 A.D.

Charts 2017-04-06

All about that vase

From An Excavation Of One Of The World’s Greatest Art Collections by Oliver Roeder

Dot plot showing the top 10 countries of origin for items in the Met's collection by year acquired from 1880 to 2000, with Egypt and the U.S. dominating.

Charts 2017-04-06

Egypt and the U.S. dominate at the Met

From An Excavation Of One Of The World’s Greatest Art Collections by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot showing Met Museum modern and contemporary paintings by year painted vs year acquired, highlighting first Picasso and Matisse acquisitions.

Charts 2017-04-06

Picasso (and Matisse), baby

From An Excavation Of One Of The World’s Greatest Art Collections by Oliver Roeder

Dot plot showing the top 10 categories of items in the Met's collection by type and year of origin, spanning 6000 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

Charts 2017-04-06

The Met's collection

From An Excavation Of One Of The World’s Greatest Art Collections by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing three seasonally adjusted measures of US unemployment from 2008 to 2017: official rate, broader definition, and including underemployment.

Charts 2017-04-07

Different measures of unemployment

From One Slow Month Doesn’t Change The Strong Trend On Jobs by Ben Casselman

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

Charts 2017-04-07

Hourly earnings, change from prior year

From One Slow Month Doesn’t Change The Strong Trend On Jobs by Ben Casselman

Two line charts showing 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 2017-04-07

Labor force participation rate

From One Slow Month Doesn’t Change The Strong Trend On Jobs by Ben Casselman

Line chart showing seasonally adjusted year-over-year change in non-agricultural jobs (private sector and total) from 2011 to 2017.

Charts 2017-04-07

Non-agricultural jobs, change from prior year

From One Slow Month Doesn’t Change The Strong Trend On Jobs by Ben Casselman

Scatter plot showing standard deviation of seasonal WAR vs. average WAR for MLB players with 4+ seasons of 500+ plate appearances from 1901-2016, with Mike Trout highlighted as consistently great.

Charts 2017-04-07

Mike Trout is consistently great

From Mike Trout Is Outrageously Consistent At Being Outrageously Great by Rob Arthur

Small multiples chart showing 500-pitch rolling average location of pitches thrown to Mike Trout by year from 2012 to 2016, with notable strategy shifts highlighted.

Charts 2017-04-07

Pitchers keep trying new ways to get Trout out

From Mike Trout Is Outrageously Consistent At Being Outrageously Great by Rob Arthur

Bar chart comparing mammogram screening frequency recommendations by age from three organizations: US Preventive Services Task Force, American Cancer Society, and ACOG.

Charts 2017-04-10

How often should you get a mammogram? Screening standards, by organization

From Some Doctors Are Giving Mammogram Advice That Could Hurt Women by Christie Aschwanden

Bar charts showing the share of physicians who recommend routine screening mammograms by patient age group and specialty: obstetrics/gynecology, family medicine, and internal medicine.

Charts 2017-04-10

When do doctors recommend mammograms?

From Some Doctors Are Giving Mammogram Advice That Could Hurt Women by Christie Aschwanden

Histogram showing the Democratic lean of GOP-held House seats relative to the nation, with Kansas 4 and Georgia 6 highlighted, based on the last two presidential elections.

Charts 2017-04-11

The partisan lean of GOP-held House seats

From Why Republicans Are Worried About Kansas by Harry Enten

Area chart showing pre-playoff odds of a Canadian NHL team winning the Stanley Cup from 1989 to 2015, highlighting key years and the NHL lockout.

Charts 2017-04-13

Canada's Stanley Cup odds have seen better days

From Will Canada End Its Stanley Cup Drought? Well, It’s Not Impossible. by Neil Paine

Dot plot comparing NBA team net points per 100 possessions with and without key players in 2016-17, highlighting Curry's large positive impact on the Warriors.

Charts 2017-04-13

Curry has LeBron-like impact on a better team

From The Case For Stephen Curry, MVP by Benjamin Morris

Six scatter plots showing NBA teammates' true shooting percentages vs. usage rates with and without MVP candidates (Curry, Durant, Harden, LeBron, Leonard, Westbrook) in 2016-17.

Charts 2017-04-13

How key players affect their teammates

From The Case For Stephen Curry, MVP by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot showing NBA player impact vs team quality without player for the 2016-17 season, with players from Thunder, Cavaliers, Rockets, Spurs, and Warriors highlighted.

Charts 2017-04-13

It's hard to be great on a great team

From The Case For Stephen Curry, MVP by Benjamin Morris

Scatter plot comparing NBA players' true shooting percentage vs. usage rate over three seasons, highlighting Steph Curry's regression alongside Leonard, James, Harden, Westbrook, and others.

Charts 2017-04-13

Steph picked a bad time to regress

From The Case For Stephen Curry, MVP by Benjamin Morris

Color-coded matrix showing optimal second card placement (LL, UL, UR, LR) based on first card value (columns 0-9) and second card value (rows 0-9).

Charts 2017-04-14

Second Card Placement by First and Second Card Value

From How Many Bingo Cards Are There In The World? by Oliver Roeder

Two scatter plots comparing win probability added vs. goose eggs and saves statistics for MLB pitchers since 1974, showing goose stats correlate better with win probability than save stats.

Charts 2017-04-17

Goose stats closely match win probability vs. save stats don't capture value well

From The Save Ruined Relief Pitching. The Goose Egg Can Fix It. by Nate Silver

Heat map showing total innings pitched by situation for an average MLB closer in 2016, broken down by inning and team deficit or lead at start of appearance.

Charts 2017-04-17

Today's closers are just 9th-inning pitchers

From The Save Ruined Relief Pitching. The Goose Egg Can Fix It. by Nate Silver

Heat map showing baseball leverage index by inning and run differential, highlighting the Goose situation in late innings when the game is tied or the pitcher's team leads by one.

Charts 2017-04-17

When does an inning matter most? Leverage index by inning

From The Save Ruined Relief Pitching. The Goose Egg Can Fix It. by Nate Silver

Histogram showing the Democratic lean of GOP-held House seats relative to the nation, with Georgia 6 highlighted, based on the last two presidential elections.

Charts 2017-04-18

The partisan lean of GOP-held House seats

From Everything You Need To Know About The Georgia 6 Special Election by Harry Enten, Ryan Matsumoto

Scatter plot showing NBA teams' percentage of shots within 3 feet of the rim vs. overall free-throw rate per field-goal attempt for the 2016-17 season, with Memphis and San Antonio labeled.

Charts 2017-04-18

Teams that drive end up on the free-throw line

From The Grizzlies Foul So Damn Much by Kyle Wagner

Overlapping histogram showing the distribution of winning and losing scores across 700,000 tournament Scrabble games, with losing scores peaking around 350 and winning scores shifted right.

Charts 2017-04-19

700,000 games of Scrabble

From How ‘Qi’ And ‘Za’ Changed Scrabble by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot with trend lines showing weekly average Scrabble scores before and after the March 1, 2006 dictionary update adding around 11,000 words including QI and ZA.

Charts 2017-04-19

Scrabble scores in the age of 'QI' and 'ZA'

From How ‘Qi’ And ‘Za’ Changed Scrabble by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the share of Americans identifying as religiously unaffiliated by political ideology (Liberals, Moderates, Conservatives) from the late 1970s to mid-2010s.

Charts 2017-04-20

Liberals are abandoning religion

From Don’t Bet On The Emergence Of A ‘Religious Left’ by Daniel Cox

Stacked bar chart showing religious affiliation by age group among U.S. liberals in 2016, with younger groups showing higher unaffiliated shares.

Charts 2017-04-20

Young people are more secular

From Don’t Bet On The Emergence Of A ‘Religious Left’ by Daniel Cox

Choropleth map of the US showing estimated deaths per 100,000 people from HIV and tuberculosis by county in 1980, with darker teal indicating higher mortality.

Maps 2017-04-20

Estimated deaths per 100,000 people from HIV and tuberculosis (1980)

From Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the US showing estimated deaths per 100,000 people from HIV and tuberculosis in 1980, with mortality rates age adjusted.

Maps 2017-04-20

Estimated deaths per 100,000 people from HIV and tuberculosis (1980)

From Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the United States showing estimated cervical cancer deaths per 100,000 people by county in 2014, with darker purple indicating higher mortality rates concentrated in the South.

Maps 2017-04-20

Estimated deaths per 100,000 people from cervical cancer, 2014

From Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the US showing estimated cervical cancer deaths per 100,000 people by county in 2014, with darker purple indicating higher mortality rates.

Maps 2017-04-20

Estimated deaths per 100,000 people from cervical cancer, 2014

From Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the US showing estimated deaths per 100,000 people from diabetes, blood and endocrine diseases by county in 2014, with darker blue indicating higher mortality.

Maps 2017-04-20

Estimated deaths per 100,000 people from diabetes, blood and endocrine diseases, 2014

From Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the US showing estimated deaths per 100,000 people from diabetes, blood and endocrine diseases by county in 2014, with darker blue indicating higher mortality.

Maps 2017-04-20

Estimated deaths per 100,000 people from diabetes, blood and endocrine diseases, 2014

From Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Line chart showing infant deaths per 1,000 live births from 1950 to 2010 for Black Alabamians, White Alabamians, and the U.S. overall, with Black Alabamians consistently highest.

Charts 2017-04-20

Infant mortality is higher for black Alabamians

From Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Historical choropleth map showing the distribution of the slave population across Southern States of the United States, compiled from the 1860 Census, with shading indicating percentage of enslaved persons by county.

Maps 2017-04-20

Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States, 1860

From Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Line chart showing smoothed trends of key metrics for MLB leadoff hitters relative to MLB-wide average from 2002 to 2017, including OPS, walks, ground balls, isolated power, and balls hit to opposite field.

Charts 2017-04-20

The changing skills of MLB's leadoff men

From Baseball’s New Leadoff Hitters Don’t Need To Be Speed Demons by Neil Paine

Area chart showing Supreme Court seat breakdown over time by party (Democrat blue, Republican red) with a declining curve for average empty seats at 0.71429.

Charts 2017-04-21

Court Breakdown Over Time

From Pick A Card, Any Card! by Oliver Roeder

Bar chart on a logarithmic probability scale showing the long-run distribution of Supreme Court vacancies, from 0 to 9 vacancies.

Charts 2017-04-21

Long-run distribution of Supreme Court vacancies

From Pick A Card, Any Card! by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing seven-day rolling average of first-round polling for five French presidential candidates from January to April.

Charts 2017-04-21

France's presidential election is up in the air

From The French Election Is Way Too Close To Call by Harry Enten

Scatter plot with trend line showing the percentage of MLB games ending in a tie each season from 1870s to 2010s, with a marked drop after 1918 when daylight saving time was adopted.

Charts 2017-04-24

Tied baseball games used to happen all the time

From ‘But It’s Tradition!’ Is No Reason To Ban Tie Games In MLB by Harry Enten

Scatter plot with trend line showing the president's party House midterm vote margin versus average generic ballot lead 18-24 months before midterms since 1942.

Charts 2017-04-25

Early generic ballot results are pretty predictive

From Don’t Just Look At Trump’s Approval Rating To Judge His First 100 Days by Harry Enten

Scatter plot showing Republican votes on the AHCA House health care bill by DW-Nominate scores, with likely no voters in teal and likely yes voters in gray.

Charts 2017-04-27

Anti-AHCA Republicans weren't just conservative

From Trump’s Health Care Bill Won Over The Freedom Caucus — But Risks Losing Everyone Else by Harry Enten

Color-coded map of federal land across all 50 US states in 2016, showing land managed by Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife, US Forest Service, and other agencies.

Maps 2017-04-27

Federal land in the 50 states, 2016

From Trump Might Be The First President To Scrap A National Monument by Ella Koeze

Map of federal land in all 50 US states in 2016, showing designated and undesignated protection levels with green and pink shading.

Maps 2017-04-27

Federal land in the 50 states, 2016

From Trump Might Be The First President To Scrap A National Monument by Ella Koeze

Map of the United States showing federal land in all 50 states as of 2016, colored by protection level: designated (green) and undesignated (tan).

Maps 2017-04-27

Federal land in the 50 states, 2016

From Trump Might Be The First President To Scrap A National Monument by Ella Koeze

Color-coded map of federal land in all 50 US states in 2016, showing land managed by Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife, and US Forest Service.

Maps 2017-04-27

Federal land in the 50 states, 2016

From Trump Might Be The First President To Scrap A National Monument by Ella Koeze

Bar chart showing national monuments established under the Antiquities Act by president as of April 2017, highlighting ocean monuments and those over 100k acres subject to Trump's review order.

Charts 2017-04-27

Trump's order could affect many monuments

From Trump Might Be The First President To Scrap A National Monument by Ella Koeze

Step chart showing optimal card game strategy with blue Keep Playing and red Stop Playing regions based on current card value versus number of cards flipped, for n=100 and k=10.

Charts 2017-04-28

Strategy for OPTIMAL play (n=100, k=10)

From Can You Solve These Colorful Puzzles? by Oliver Roeder

Color-coded chart showing optimal play strategy for a card game with n=10000 and k=40, dividing the space into Keep Playing (blue) and Stop Playing (red) regions.

Charts 2017-04-28

Strategy for OPTIMAL play (n=10000, k=40)

From Can You Solve These Colorful Puzzles? by Oliver Roeder

Editorial graphic showing the number 100 in large dark red type on a red background with Trump's face visible through the zero, referencing his first 100 days.

Other 2017-04-28

Trump's First 100 Days

From What Trump Has Done

Line chart showing average absolute error of MLB pitch-location measurements in April from 2014 to 2017, with vertical error spiking sharply when MLB switched to Statcast in 2017.

Charts 2017-04-28

Statcast doesn't track pitches well

From Baseball’s New Pitch-Tracking System Is Just A Bit Outside by Rob Arthur

Line chart showing average absolute error in MLB pitch-break measurements from 2014 to 2017, comparing horizontal and vertical break error, with a marker when MLB switched to Statcast in 2017.

Charts 2017-04-28

Statcast struggles most with how pitches break

From Baseball’s New Pitch-Tracking System Is Just A Bit Outside by Rob Arthur

Scatter or bubble chart featuring NFL quarterback player images positioned on a grid, with teal and red bubbles indicating data points for various quarterbacks including Matt Ryan, Russell Wilson, Dak Prescott, Kirk Cousins, Tyrod Taylor, Trevor Siemian, and Brock Osweiler.

Charts 2017-04-28

NFL Quarterback Comparison Bubble Chart

From The Browns Need A Great QB, Which Is Why They Didn’t Draft One by Benjamin Morris

Dot plot showing the share of NFL QBs drafted in each round since 2000 who started at least 5 games in the 2016-17 season, broken down by draft round and pick position.

Charts 2017-04-28

Where starting QBs come from

From The Browns Need A Great QB, Which Is Why They Didn’t Draft One by Benjamin Morris

Bubble scatter chart showing QB points above replacement per year vs draft pick position for QBs drafted 2006-2016, with bubble size indicating years since being drafted.

Charts 2017-04-28

Why you don't reach down for QBs

From The Browns Need A Great QB, Which Is Why They Didn’t Draft One by Benjamin Morris