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March 2018 graphics

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Histogram showing Democratic House members by district partisan lean and whether they took a pro-impeachment position in a January vote, with annotation for Rep. Tim Walz of Minnesota.

Charts 2018-03-01

A blue House still might not impeach the president

From The Midterms Could Set Trump On A Path Toward Impeachment by Perry Bacon Jr

Horizontal bar chart comparing Obama and Trump communications chiefs by days in office, showing Obama average of 585.4 days versus Trump average of 78.6 days.

Charts 2018-03-01

Obama and Trump communications chiefs by length of service

From What The Hope Hicks Resignation Could Mean For Trump by Perry Bacon Jr

Line chart showing the golfer with the longest average driving distance each year on the PGA Tour from 1980 to 2018, highlighting John Daly, Dustin Johnson, and Tony Finau.

Charts 2018-03-01

Tony Finau is driving to the next level

From Meet The Golfer Who Could Smash The PGA Tour Driving Record by Josh Planos

Side-by-side comparison of two circular cross-section images labeled 2014-2015 and 2016-2017 showing density differences, with a less dense to more dense grayscale legend.

Other 2018-03-01

Density Comparison 2014-2015 vs 2016-2017

From We X-Rayed Some MLB Baseballs. Here’s What We Found. by Rob Arthur, Tim Dix

Bar chart showing the share of women among officers and board of governors members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from the 1920s to 2018, rising sharply in recent years.

Charts 2018-03-01

Women are finally getting more of a role in the academy

From The People Who Ran The Oscars Were Almost Exclusively Men For Decades. That’s Changing. by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 46.4% and Republicans at 38.4% as of March 1, 2018.

Charts 2018-03-02

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From The State Of Senate Democrats In Trumpland Is … by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to January 2024 (Day 406), with disapprove at 54.1% and approve at 40.6%.

Charts 2018-03-02

Presidential Approval Ratings: 54.1% Disapprove, 40.6% Approve (Day 406)

From The State Of Senate Democrats In Trumpland Is … by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing the relationship between round-win probability and overall game win percentage in the FiveThirtyEight Token Game, with a blue crosshair marking approximately 65% round probability yielding 56% game win rate.

Charts 2018-03-02

FiveThirtyEight Token Game

From How Long Will You Shuffle This Damn Deck Of Cards? by Oliver Roeder

Horizontal bar chart showing NBA bad calls and bad non-calls in the last two minutes of close games by team for the 2017-18 season through Feb. 28.

Charts 2018-03-02

Mistakes were made ... NBA incorrect calls by team, 2017-18

From Which NBA Team Is Wronged By The Refs The Most? by Chris Herring, Neil Paine

Stacked bar chart showing the share of evangelicals who identify with Democrats, Independents, and Republicans by race in 2016, broken down by All Americans, All evangelicals, White, Black, and Hispanic evangelicals.

Charts 2018-03-02

Nonwhite evangelicals lean Democratic

From How Trump And Race Are Splitting Evangelicals by Perry Bacon Jr, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

The White Test infographic showing that 0 of 50 movies passed criteria requiring half department heads, department members, and crew to be women.

Other 2018-03-02

The White Test: 0 Passed, All 50 Failed

From Why Did It Take So Long For The Oscars To Nominate A Female Cinematographer? by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing female share of graduating classes in cinematography-related graduate programs at the top five film schools from 2001 to 2016.

Charts 2018-03-02

The cinematography pipeline has plenty of women

From Why Did It Take So Long For The Oscars To Nominate A Female Cinematographer? by Walt Hickey

Bubble chart showing repeat vs. one-time Oscar nominees across all Academy Award categories from 1958-2017, highlighting 2018 nominees in teal.

Charts 2018-03-03

Which Oscar category is the least open to newcomers?

From The Last 60 Years Of Oscar Nominations In One Chart by Gus Wezerek

Bubble cluster chart showing which Oscar categories have the most repeat versus one-time nominees, based on 9,942 nominations from 1958-2017, with green dots for current nominees.

Charts 2018-03-03

Which Oscar category is the least open to newcomers?

From The Last 60 Years Of Oscar Nominations In One Chart by Gus Wezerek

Bar chart showing FiveThirtyEight model points for 2018 Oscar Best Documentary nominees based on nominations and wins, with Faces Places leading at 12 points.

Charts 2018-03-05

The race for best documentary

From How Our Oscar Predictions Did by Walt Hickey

Horizontal bar chart showing FiveThirtyEight model points awarded to 2018 Oscar Best Picture nominees based on nominations and wins, with The Shape of Water leading at 248 points.

Charts 2018-03-05

The race for best picture

From How Our Oscar Predictions Did by Walt Hickey

A satirical trading card called the Nakamoto Card featuring a Pepe the Frog illustration styled as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto with stats and a rareness score of 97.

Other 2018-03-06

Nakamoto Card – Rare Pepe Trading Card

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the sale price in USD for a single Dank Pepe NFT from September 2016 to January 2018, with a sharp spike near $600 in late 2017.

Charts 2018-03-06

Sale Price For A Single Dank Pepe Since September 2016

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the sale price in USD for a single Dankpepe NFT from October 2016 to January 2018, with a dramatic spike near $600 in January 2018.

Charts 2018-03-06

Sale Price For A Single Dankpepe Since September 2016

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the sale price in USD for a single JesusPepe crypto collectible from November 2016 through July 2017, with a sharp spike near July.

Charts 2018-03-06

Sale Price For A Single JesusPepe Since November 2016

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the sale price for a single JesusPepe NFT card from November 2016 to July 2017, with a sharp spike near July reaching above $6k.

Charts 2018-03-06

Sale Price For A Single JesusPepe Since November 2016

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the sale price in USD for a single Modern Pepe NFT from March 2017 to January 2018, rising sharply to nearly $3k.

Charts 2018-03-06

Sale Price For A Single Modern Pepe Since March 2017

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the sale price for a single ModernPepe NFT in USD from March 2017 to January 2018, rising sharply to nearly $3k.

Charts 2018-03-06

Sale Price for a Single ModernPepe Since March 2017

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the sale price in USD for a single Rare Pepe NFT from October 2016 to January 2018, with a dramatic spike near January 2018.

Charts 2018-03-06

Sale Price for a Single Rare Pepe Since September 2016

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the sale price in USD for a single Rare Pepe NFT from September 2016 to January 2018, with a sharp spike near January 2018.

Charts 2018-03-06

Sale Price for a Single Rare Pepe Since September 2016

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing the price of Pepe Cash in U.S. dollars from early 2016 through March 5, 2018, with a sharp spike near $0.14 in early 2018.

Charts 2018-03-06

The changing value of Pepe Cash

From People Are Paying Thousands Of Dollars To Own Pictures Of Pepe The Frog by Oliver Roeder

Histogram showing the distribution of feature films by share of IMDb ratings made by women, skewed heavily toward male raters, as of Feb. 14, 2018.

Charts 2018-03-06

More ratings on IMDb come from men

From What If Online Movie Ratings Weren’t Based Almost Entirely On What Men Think? by Walt Hickey

Histogram showing the share of IMDb user ratings from women for the 250 highest-ranked films, as of Feb. 16, 2018, with most films clustered below 50% women raters.

Charts 2018-03-06

The highest-ranked movies have more ratings from men

From What If Online Movie Ratings Weren’t Based Almost Entirely On What Men Think? by Walt Hickey

Grouped bar chart comparing percent of people who think 'the news media' vs 'the news media you use most often' are moral, immoral, or neither applies.

Charts 2018-03-07

People are nearly twice as likely to think the media they use are moral

From Why Do Americans Hate The Media?

Line chart showing trust and confidence in the press by party over time from 1997 to 2017, with Democrats consistently higher than Republicans.

Charts 2018-03-07

Trust and confidence in the press by party over time

From Why Do Americans Hate The Media?

Grouped bar chart showing partisan differences in positive and negative views of major institutions including churches, banks, labor unions, national news media, and colleges, comparing Republicans and Democrats.

Charts 2018-03-07

Wide partisan differences over the impact of major institutions on the country

From Why Do Americans Hate The Media?

Scatter plot comparing 2017-18 NBA wings by number of good games minus bad games versus total good games, highlighting Tobias Harris alongside stars like Durant, LeBron, and Leonard.

Charts 2018-03-07

Harris is as consistent as big stars

From Why Denver’s Gary Harris Could Be The Next Kawhi Leonard by Chris Herring

Six US maps showing geographic centers of top men's college basketball conferences and locations of their 2018 tournament sites, illustrating how far championships are from conference centers.

Maps 2018-03-07

Conference championships are far from the conference centers

From The Ridiculousness Of Conference Tournament Locations, In 6 Maps by Neil Paine, Ella Koeze

Six US maps showing the geographic centers of top men's college basketball conferences and the locations of their 2018 tournament sites, illustrating how far tournaments are held from conference centers.

Maps 2018-03-07

Conference championships are far from the conference centers

From The Ridiculousness Of Conference Tournament Locations, In 6 Maps by Neil Paine, Ella Koeze

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 47.7% and Republicans at 38.8% as of March 8, 2018.

Charts 2018-03-09

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From How The Pennsylvania Special Election Could Matter To Trump And Pelosi by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings from January 2023 through Day 413, with disapproval at 53.6% and approval at 40.6%.

Charts 2018-03-09

Presidential Approval Ratings: 53.6% Disapprove, 40.6% Approve

From How The Pennsylvania Special Election Could Matter To Trump And Pelosi by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Scatter plot showing 2018 NCAA men's basketball tournament teams by points scored vs. points allowed per 100 possessions, with East region schools highlighted in pink.

Charts 2018-03-12

The East has some of the highest-scoring teams

From How To Build A Bracket For This Wide-Open NCAA Tournament by Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing 2018 NCAA men's basketball tournament teams by points scored vs. points allowed per 100 possessions, with Midwest region schools highlighted in orange.

Charts 2018-03-12

The Midwest region is solidly in the middle

From How To Build A Bracket For This Wide-Open NCAA Tournament by Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing 2018 NCAA men's basketball tournament teams by points scored vs. points allowed per 100 possessions, with South region schools highlighted in teal.

Charts 2018-03-12

The South has some of the strongest defensive teams

From How To Build A Bracket For This Wide-Open NCAA Tournament by Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing 2018 NCAA men's basketball tournament teams by points scored vs. points allowed per 100 possessions, with West region schools highlighted in green.

Charts 2018-03-12

The West has some of the weakest teams

From How To Build A Bracket For This Wide-Open NCAA Tournament by Neil Paine

Scatter plot of 2018 NCAA women's basketball tournament teams by points scored vs. points allowed per 100 possessions, highlighting UConn, Notre Dame, Baylor, and Mississippi State.

Charts 2018-03-13

Does anyone have a shot against UConn?

From This May Be The Best UConn Team Ever by Neil Paine

Dot/icon chart comparing the number of Cabinet position replacements by year for recent US presidents from Carter to Trump, through March 13, 2018.

Charts 2018-03-13

Trump shakes up his Cabinet, again

From Tillerson’s Departure Adds To Trump’s Historic Levels Of Cabinet Instability by Andrea Jones-Rooy

Line chart on a log scale showing the number of known digits of pi by year from 250 B.C. to 2016, reaching 22,459,157,718,361 digits.

Charts 2018-03-14

How many digits of pi have humans found?

From Even After 22 Trillion Digits, We’re Still No Closer To The End Of Pi by Oliver Roeder

Bar chart showing estimated number of school shootings by year from the late 1960s to mid-2010s, with Columbine, VA Tech, and Newtown highlighted.

Charts 2018-03-14

School shootings are rare, but not as rare as they used to be

From These Researchers Have Been Trying To Stop School Shootings For 20 Years by Maggie Koerth

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 47.7% and Republicans at 39.3% as of March 15, 2018.

Charts 2018-03-16

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From Americans Are Partisan About Everything — Even Sex Scandals by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to January 2024, with disapproval at 53.7% and approval at 40.4% at day 420.

Charts 2018-03-16

Presidential Approval Ratings Over Time (Day 420)

From Americans Are Partisan About Everything — Even Sex Scandals by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing revenue from IRS audits in fiscal year 2016 dollars from 2007 to 2016, depicting a general decline from about $18b to $10b.

Charts 2018-03-19

Revenue from IRS audits, in fiscal year 2016 dollars

From Everyone Tries To Dodge The Tax Man, And It Keeps Getting Easier by Evan Horowitz

Grouped bar chart comparing distribution of NCAA tournament round of 16 teams by seed, showing 1985-2017 average versus 2018 season.

Charts 2018-03-19

The year of the middle seeds

From This Year’s Sweet 16 Is Downright Odd by Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing percent difference between people counted in the 2010 census and total residents from birth, death and immigration records by age, revealing young kids are most undercounted.

Charts 2018-03-19

Young kids are the most likely group to be undercounted

From A Million Children Didn’t Show Up In The 2010 Census. How Many Will Be Missing In 2020? by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Line chart showing Phil Mickelson's average finishing place by season in individual stroke play tournaments from 1988 through March 20, 2018, with 2018 highlighted as his best recent season.

Charts 2018-03-20

It looks like the old Lefty

From Everyone’s Talking About Tiger, But Phil Mickelson Is Playing The Best Golf Of His Career by Josh Planos

Icon-driven infographic showing breast cancer causes: one gray figure for three variants in report, five blue for BRCA1/BRCA2 variants not in report, and many orange figures for other factors.

Other 2018-03-21

Example: Breast Cancers — Icon Infographic

From Anyone Can Now Take This Breast Cancer Gene Test, But It Probably Won’t Tell You Much by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart showing the share of voters with at least a bachelor's degree from 1980 to 2016, with midterm election years highlighted, showing a steady increase over time.

Charts 2018-03-22

Every midterm since 1982 has set a new record for the best-educated electorate in history

From Which U.S. House Race Is The Best 2018 Bellwether?

Histogram showing the partisan lean of every U.S. House seat, with congressional districts colored blue for Democrat-held and red for Republican-held, plotted by partisan lean relative to the nation.

Charts 2018-03-22

The partisan lean of every House seat

From Which U.S. House Race Is The Best 2018 Bellwether?

Infographic showing NCAA championship win probabilities: Villanova (seed 1) at 64% and Michigan (seed 3) at 36%.

Charts 2018-03-22

Villanova vs. Michigan Championship Win Probabilities

From Beside The Points For Thursday, March 22, 2018 by Walt Hickey

Win probability comparison showing Villanova at 64% and Michigan at 36% for a college basketball matchup.

Other 2018-03-22

Villanova vs. Michigan Win Probability

From Beside The Points For Thursday, March 22, 2018 by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 47.3% and Republicans at 41.1% as of March 22, 2018.

Charts 2018-03-23

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From Religious Democrats, Young Republicans: What The Stereotypes Miss About Both Parties by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to January 2024 (Day 427), with disapproval at 53.4% and approval at 40.6%.

Charts 2018-03-23

Presidential Approval Ratings: 53.4% Disapprove, 40.6% Approve (Day 427)

From Religious Democrats, Young Republicans: What The Stereotypes Miss About Both Parties by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Scatter plot titled Averages showing average values on the y-axis versus index on the x-axis, with points densely clustered around 4.5 and sparse outliers.

Charts 2018-03-23

Averages

From Can You Shuffle Numbers? Can You Find All The World Cup Results? by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing number of satisfying values vs allowed number of digits, with a linear regression line and equation y = 0.6423x + 31.009, R² = 0.9956.

Charts 2018-03-23

Number of Satisfying Values vs. Allowed Number of Digits

From Can You Shuffle Numbers? Can You Find All The World Cup Results? by Oliver Roeder

Dot plot showing share of 2014 survey respondents' confidence levels that records of their activity would remain private, broken down by 11 data handlers including social media, advertisers, and government agencies.

Charts 2018-03-27

Americans don't trust social media or online advertisers

From The Trouble With Quitting Facebook Is That We Like Facebook by Maggie Koerth

Dot plot showing survey respondents' sensitivity levels toward 16 types of personal data, from Social Security numbers to basic purchasing habits, based on 2014 Pew Research Center data.

Charts 2018-03-27

Some personal data is seen as more sensitive than others

From The Trouble With Quitting Facebook Is That We Like Facebook by Maggie Koerth

Choropleth map of the US showing estimated mail return rates for the 2010 census by county, highlighting low-response areas and noting Catron County, NM at 45.1%.

Maps 2018-03-29

Low response rates are already a problem in some areas

From The Census’s New Citizenship Question Could Hurt Communities That Are Already Undercounted by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 46.4% and Republicans at 39.7% as of March 29, 2018.

Charts 2018-03-30

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From How A Massachusetts Republican Became One Of America’s Most Popular Politicians by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over 434 days from January 2023 to March 2023, with disapproval at 53.6% and approval at 40.2%.

Charts 2018-03-30

Presidential Approval Ratings: 53.6% Disapprove, 40.2% Approve (Day 434)

From How A Massachusetts Republican Became One Of America’s Most Popular Politicians by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing share of field-goal attempts from behind the 3-point line for Division I men's basketball and Final Four teams since 2008-09, highlighting Kansas's recent rise.

Charts 2018-03-30

Kansas is finally playing modern basketball

From Kansas Is The Only Final Four Team Playing Modern Basketball by Kyle Wagner

Grouped bar chart showing percent difference in average sentence length for women of four racial groups versus white men across five reporting periods from 2000 to 2016.

Charts 2018-03-30

Women of all races get shorter sentences than white men

From Women Aren’t Always Sentenced By The Book. And Maybe They Shouldn’t Be. by David Dagan