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April 2018 graphics

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Three scatter plots showing Democratic overperformance in special elections since Jan. 20, 2017, relative to partisan lean, broken down by presidential vote shift, income, and education.

Charts 2018-04-02

Democrats are overperforming in all kinds of districts

From Be Skeptical Of Anyone Who Tells You They Know How Democrats Can Win In November by Nathaniel Rakich

US map with red and blue arrow-like symbols scattered across various states, likely indicating some directional or partisan data comparison by state.

Maps 2018-04-02

US State Map with Red and Blue Arrow Indicators

From Be Skeptical Of Anyone Who Tells You They Know How Democrats Can Win In November by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart showing estimated U.S. deaths per 100,000 people from drug use and alcohol use from 1980 to around 2013, with drug deaths rising sharply after 1995.

Charts 2018-04-02

Estimated Deaths per 100,000 People from Drug Use vs. Alcohol Use

From More Americans Are Dying From Suicide, Drug Use And Diarrhea by Ella Koeze, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Two US county-level choropleth maps showing estimated deaths per 100,000 people in 2014 from alcohol use disorders (teal) and drug use disorders (purple).

Maps 2018-04-02

Estimated Deaths per 100,000 People in 2014 by County: Alcohol vs. Drug Use Disorders

From More Americans Are Dying From Suicide, Drug Use And Diarrhea by Ella Koeze, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Two US county-level choropleth maps showing estimated deaths per 100,000 people in 2014 from interpersonal violence (teal) and self-harm (purple).

Maps 2018-04-02

Estimated Deaths per 100,000 People in 2014 by County: Interpersonal Violence and Self-Harm

From More Americans Are Dying From Suicide, Drug Use And Diarrhea by Ella Koeze, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Line chart showing estimated U.S. deaths per 100,000 people from self-harm and interpersonal violence from 1980 to around 2013, with self-harm rising slightly and violence declining sharply.

Charts 2018-04-02

Estimated Deaths per 100,000 People in the U.S. from Self-Harm and Interpersonal Violence

From More Americans Are Dying From Suicide, Drug Use And Diarrhea by Ella Koeze, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Table showing estimated deaths from chronic respiratory diseases per 100,000 people in the U.S. with sparkline trends from 1980 to 2014 and 2014 death rates.

Tables 2018-04-02

Estimated deaths from chronic respiratory diseases per 100,000 people in the U.S.

From More Americans Are Dying From Suicide, Drug Use And Diarrhea by Ella Koeze, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the US showing estimated deaths from diarrheal diseases per 100,000 people in 2014 by county, with darker teal indicating higher rates.

Maps 2018-04-02

Estimated deaths from diarrheal diseases per 100,000 people in 2014, by county

From More Americans Are Dying From Suicide, Drug Use And Diarrhea by Ella Koeze, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Choropleth map of the US showing percentage change in estimated deaths from lower respiratory infections per 100,000 people by county from 1980 to 2014.

Maps 2018-04-02

Percentage change in estimated deaths from lower respiratory infections per 100,000 people, 1980–2014

From More Americans Are Dying From Suicide, Drug Use And Diarrhea by Ella Koeze, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Three line charts showing how FiveThirtyEight trade war game players changed their Friendliness, Imitation, and Vindictiveness strategies over up to 20 repeated games through March 30.

Charts 2018-04-03

Our readers got meaner over time

From We Let Our Readers Practice International Trade. They Started A Bunch Of Trade Wars. by Rachael Dottle, Oliver Roeder, Julia Wolfe

Horizontal stacked bar chart showing most important candidate quality with percentages for four traits: cares about people like me, can bring needed change, has the right experience, and has good judgment.

Charts 2018-04-04

Most Important Candidate Quality

From What Issues Should Democrats Ignore In 2018?

Scatter plot showing 2018 Masters participants by PGA Tour scoring average and total strokes gained per round, with top players like D. Johnson and J. Thomas highlighted in orange.

Charts 2018-04-04

How the Masters field shapes up

From Everyone You Should Watch At The Masters Not Named Tiger Or Phil by Josh Planos

Line chart showing Boston Celtics' chance of winning each NBA playoff round with Kyrie Irving versus possible replacements at different Real Plus-Minus levels, per FiveThirtyEight CARM-Elo.

Charts 2018-04-05

How much will losing Kyrie Irving hurt Boston?

From How Losing Kyrie Irving Affects The Celtics’ Playoff Run by Kyle Wagner, Neil Paine

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 47.1% and Republicans at 39.1% as of April 5, 2018.

Charts 2018-04-06

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From The Diversity Of Black Political Views by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to March 2024 (Day 441), with disapproval at 53.8% and approval at 40.2%.

Charts 2018-04-06

Presidential Approval Ratings: 53.8% Disapprove, 40.2% Approve

From The Diversity Of Black Political Views by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Histogram showing the distribution of submitted numbers to FiveThirtyEight's Riddler Express, with a median of 332 marked by an orange dotted line.

Charts 2018-04-06

Distribution of submissions to last week's Riddler Express

From When Will The Arithmetic Anarchists Attack? by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot showing Sunday Nielsen ratings for the Masters golf tournament by winner from 1958 to 2017, highlighting Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, and Phil Mickelson.

Charts 2018-04-06

Star power at the Masters

From Just How Much Does Tiger Affect TV Ratings For The Masters? by Greg Guglielmo

Line chart showing women's median hourly earnings as a share of white men's earnings from 1980 to 2015, broken down by race: Asian/Pacific Islander, White, Black, and Hispanic women.

Charts 2018-04-10

The wage gap has narrowed, but it's still divided by race

From The Pay Gap Is Way Too Entrenched To Be Solved By Women Alone by Maggie Koerth

FiveThirtyEight infographic showing causes of the gender pay gap, with horizontal bar segments indicating occupation (33%), industry (18%), experience (14%), race (4%), and unmeasured factors (38%).

Other 2018-04-10

What do we know about what causes the gender pay gap?

From The Pay Gap Is Way Too Entrenched To Be Solved By Women Alone by Maggie Koerth

Editorial infographic combining a black-and-white photo of a walking businesswoman with four colored trend lines representing earnings or employment by race: Asian/Pacific Islander, White, Black, and Hispanic.

Other 2018-04-10

Women's Economic Trends by Race: Asian/Pacific Islander, White, Black, Hispanic

From The Pay Gap Is Way Too Entrenched To Be Solved By Women Alone by Maggie Koerth

Strip plot showing NBA players' success rate on shots 28+ feet from the basket by season from 2000-01 to 2017-18, highlighting LeBron James, Steph Curry, D. Lillard, and M. Bibby.

Charts 2018-04-10

LeBron is the king of deep threes

From LeBron James Is The New Steph Curry by Owen Phillips

Choropleth map of the US showing percentage change in per capita personal income by county from 2000 to 2016, with most counties showing increases and Billings, ND highlighted at 205%.

Maps 2018-04-12

Many rural counties are doing OK

From Where Blue-Collar America Is Strongest by Evan Horowitz

Three US choropleth maps comparing Black, White, and Hispanic employment rates for 25-54 year-olds without a college degree by region, 2012-16, showing White workers more consistently employed.

Maps 2018-04-12

White workers are more consistently employed — Employment rate maps by race/ethnicity

From Where Blue-Collar America Is Strongest by Evan Horowitz

Choropleth map of the US showing working-class employment rates for 25- to 54-year-olds without a college degree by ACS microdata area, 2012-16, with Plains states darkest.

Maps 2018-04-12

Working-class employment is strong in the Plains states

From Where Blue-Collar America Is Strongest by Evan Horowitz

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 46.2% and Republicans at 39.6% as of April 12, 2018.

Charts 2018-04-13

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans (2017–2018)

From Democrats’ Chances Of Winning The Senate Are Looking Stronger by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to March 2023 Day 448, with disapproval at 53.3% and approval at 40.6%.

Charts 2018-04-13

Presidential Approval Ratings Over Time (Day 448)

From Democrats’ Chances Of Winning The Senate Are Looking Stronger by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Bar chart showing anarchist attacks by year from 2000 to 2100, with 212 total attacks, bars color-coded by count value from 0 to 7.

Charts 2018-04-13

Anarchist Attacks by Year

From Can You Find The Perfect Poker Hand? Can You Shut This Infernal Box? by Oliver Roeder

Stacked bar chart showing NCAA Men's Basketball transitive champions in 2018 by degree of separation from Villanova, based on 16,445 games by 1,362 unique teams, with 87% qualifying as transitive champions.

Charts 2018-04-13

NCAA Men's Basketball Transitive Champions, 2018

From Can You Find The Perfect Poker Hand? Can You Shut This Infernal Box? by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing Supreme Court justices' ideological leanings from 1955 to 2016 based on Judicial Common Space scores, with annotations marking key departures and replacements.

Charts 2018-04-16

Supreme Court departures and replacements

From If Justice Kennedy Retires, His Replacement Could Undermine His Legacy by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Line chart showing Supreme Court justices' Judicial Common Space scores from 1955 to 2016, with arrows marking departing and entering justices at key replacement moments.

Charts 2018-04-16

Supreme Court departures and replacements, 1955-2016

From If Justice Kennedy Retires, His Replacement Could Undermine His Legacy by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Line and dot chart showing Supreme Court justices' ideological scores from 1955 to 2016 using Judicial Common Space scores, with conservative justices in purple and liberal in gold.

Charts 2018-04-16

The Supreme Court's growing ideological divide

From If Justice Kennedy Retires, His Replacement Could Undermine His Legacy by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Dot plot showing Supreme Court justices' Judicial Common Space scores from 1955 to 2016, illustrating the growing ideological divide between liberal and conservative justices.

Charts 2018-04-16

The Supreme Court's growing ideological divide

From If Justice Kennedy Retires, His Replacement Could Undermine His Legacy by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Line chart showing the New York Mets' rank in wins above replacement (WAR) for pitching, team total, and total without pitching from 2015 to 2018.

Charts 2018-04-16

Pitching makes or breaks the Mets

From Can The Mets Possibly Be This Good? by Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing Boston Marathon winning times by country for women's and men's races from the late 1800s to 2018, highlighting Desiree Linden and Yuki Kawauchi as 2018 winners.

Charts 2018-04-16

A slower field at this year's Boston Marathon

From This Year’s Boston Marathon Was Sloooooowww by Gus Wezerek

Stacked bar chart showing total WAR per 162 games for Mike Trout and his LA Angels teammates by season from 2011 to 2018, with a league average reference line.

Charts 2018-04-17

For once, Trout's teammates have been top-notch

From Mike Trout Finally Has Some Help by Neil Paine

Two heatmap strike zone diagrams showing how umpires call pitches differently in extra innings based on whether the batting team is positioned to win or lose, 2008-16.

Charts 2018-04-18

Umpires see different strike zones in extra innings

From Everyone Wants To Go Home During Extra Innings — Maybe Even The Umps by Michael Lopez, Brian Mills

Two heatmap strike zone diagrams comparing umpire ball/strike call tendencies in extra innings when the batting team is positioned to win versus lose, 2008-16.

Charts 2018-04-18

Umpires see different strike zones in extra innings

From Everyone Wants To Go Home During Extra Innings — Maybe Even The Umps by Michael Lopez, Brian Mills

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 46.4% and Republicans at 39.8%.

Charts 2018-04-20

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats 46.4% vs Republicans 39.8%

From Republicans And Democrats Should Be Worried About 2020 by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to March 2023 Day 455, with disapproval at 54.2% and approval at 40.2%.

Charts 2018-04-20

Presidential Approval Ratings: 54.2% Disapprove, 40.2% Approve

From Republicans And Democrats Should Be Worried About 2020 by Perry Bacon Jr, Dhrumil Mehta

Small multiples bar charts showing BoardGameGeek rating distributions for six board games including Gloomhaven, Pandemic Legacy, Twilight Struggle, Monopoly, Risk, and Settlers of Catan.

Charts 2018-04-20

Gloomhaven is niche, but loved

From Players Have Crowned A New Best Board Game — And It May Be Tough To Topple by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot classifying Nicolas Cage movies into five clusters by domestic box office earnings versus Rotten Tomatoes score, with labeled groups including A National Treasure, Nouveau-Shamanic, Kick-Ass, Not The Bees, and The Recession.

Charts 2018-04-24

The five types of Nicolas Cage movies

From The Five Types Of Nicolas Cage Movies by Walt Hickey

Line chart showing the average percentage of running back touches taken by primary and secondary backs from 2002 to 2016, with primary backs declining from ~66% to ~53% and secondary backs rising slightly.

Charts 2018-04-25

Primary running backs are sharing the load more

From Here’s Why Drafting Saquon Barkley Could Be A Mistake by Scott Kacsmar

Scatter plot showing farm operators as a share of voting-age population versus Trump's 2016 vote share by state, with Clinton states in blue and Trump states in red.

Charts 2018-04-26

States that have a lot of farmers backed Trump

From What If Tariffs Cost Trump The Farm Vote? by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 46.4% and Republicans at 39.1% as of April 26, 2018.

Charts 2018-04-27

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From The Georgia Primary Offers A Preview Of Democrats’ 2020 Fault Lines by Perry Bacon Jr

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to March 2023, with disapproval at 53.7% and approval at 40.6% on day 462.

Charts 2018-04-27

Presidential Approval Ratings: 53.7% Disapprove, 40.6% Approve

From The Georgia Primary Offers A Preview Of Democrats’ 2020 Fault Lines by Perry Bacon Jr

Line chart showing the number of MLB teams projected to lose 90-plus games per season from 1969 to 2018, with 2018 reaching a record high of 8 teams.

Charts 2018-04-30

The 2018 tankfest is looking bigger than ever

From This Year’s MLB Tankfest Is Epic (And Maybe Pointless) by Neil Paine