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Scatter plot of VORP vs. age for NBA players signed to mid-level exception contracts 2008-18, highlighting DeMarcus Cousins 2018 as an outlier.

Charts 2018-07-03

One of these players is not like the others

From The Warriors Are Making A Mockery Of The NBA Salary Cap by Neil Paine

Google Trends screenshot comparing search interest over time for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) versus Vanilla Ice from 2013 to 2018.

Charts 2018-07-03

Google Trends: U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) vs. Vanilla Ice

From Trump Says ‘Abolish ICE’ Is Bad Politics For Democrats. Is He Right?

Stacked horizontal bar chart showing how women in office would affect the country, broken down by age and gender of respondents as of January 2018.

Charts 2018-07-05

Will women in office change anything?

From Young Women Could Redefine The Women’s Vote by Daniel Cox, Melissa Deckman

Line chart showing Martin-Quinn ideology scores over time for Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices Blackmun, Stevens, Souter, Kennedy, and Roberts, illustrating leftward shifts.

Charts 2018-07-05

Republican-appointed justices who shifted left

From John Roberts Has Cast A Pivotal Liberal Vote Only 5 Times by Oliver Roeder

Scatter plot showing every 2018 World Cup team by expected goals scored vs expected goals allowed, with Brazil, Belgium, France, England, Sweden, Uruguay, Croatia, and Russia highlighted.

Charts 2018-07-05

Brazil is one of the best on both sides of the ball

From Make No Mistake: Brazil Is Dominating This World Cup by Mike Goodman

Dot/square chart comparing Cabinet replacement counts by year for Trump, Obama, G.W. Bush, Clinton, G.H.W. Bush, Reagan, and Carter through July 5, 2018.

Charts 2018-07-05

Trump's latest Cabinet shake-up: Pruitt is out

From With Pruitt’s Departure, More Than A Quarter Of Trump’s Cabinet Has Changed by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Line chart showing the percentage of Republicans, Independents, and Democrats who are extremely or very proud to be Americans from 2001 to 2017, with Democrats dropping to 67% in 2017.

Charts 2018-07-06

Fewer Democrats Are Extremely or Very Proud to Be Americans

From We’re Divided On Patriotism Too by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 47.3% and Republicans at 39.6%.

Charts 2018-07-06

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From We’re Divided On Patriotism Too by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line and scatter chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to Day 532, with disapproval at 52.7% and approval at 41.9%.

Charts 2018-07-06

Presidential Approval Ratings Over Time (Day 532)

From We’re Divided On Patriotism Too by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Stacked bar chart showing percentages of Total, Democrat, and Republican respondents describing themselves as very, somewhat, not very, or not at all patriotic in 2013, 2017, and 2018.

Charts 2018-07-06

Republicans much more likely to say they're very patriotic

From We’re Divided On Patriotism Too by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Soccer pitch diagram showing locations where England won fouls and free kicks in 2018 World Cup matches through the round of 16, with dots marking fouls and penalties.

Charts 2018-07-06

England has had the most opportunities through fouls won

From England Can Get Even Better. And It Will Need To. by Michael Caley

Dot plot showing Judicial Common Space scores for current Supreme Court justices and Trump's four finalists on a liberal-to-conservative scale.

Charts 2018-07-06

The ideologies of Trump's Supreme Court finalists

From How Four Potential Nominees Would Change The Supreme Court by Oliver Roeder, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Scatter plot showing World Cup final four teams ranked by expected goals for vs. against per 90 minutes, with Belgium, England, Croatia, and France highlighted.

Charts 2018-07-09

How the final four rank

From How The World Cup Semifinalists Match Up by Bobby Gardiner

Dot plot comparing the Judicial Common Space scores of current Supreme Court justices and Brett Kavanaugh on a liberal-to-conservative scale.

Charts 2018-07-10

How Kavanaugh compares

From How Brett Kavanaugh Would Change The Supreme Court by Oliver Roeder, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Diverging horizontal bar chart comparing total transfer value of bench and starters for 2018 World Cup teams, with France having the highest combined value.

Charts 2018-07-10

France's bench is worth more than your team

From France’s Benchwarmers Are Worth More Than Most Starting Lineups by Terrence Doyle

Line chart showing the average time in seconds for a penalty to take place from whistle to kick in each FIFA World Cup from 1966 to 2018, rising sharply after 2002.

Charts 2018-07-11

Penalties are taking much longer

From VAR Is Making Penalties Take Longer. Is This Icing The Kickers? by Albert Larcada

Scatter plot with trend line showing penalty kick success rate decreasing as wait time between whistle and kick increases, titled 'Waiting is the hardest part'.

Charts 2018-07-11

Waiting is the hardest part

From VAR Is Making Penalties Take Longer. Is This Icing The Kickers? by Albert Larcada

FiveThirtyEight bracket infographic showing in-match win probabilities for 2018 World Cup matches from Round of 16 through the final, with France 59% vs Croatia 41%.

Charts 2018-07-11

2018 World Cup Final Forecast: In-Match Win Probabilities

From How France And Croatia Made It To The World Cup Final, In One Chart by Rachael Dottle

FiveThirtyEight infographic showing in-match win probabilities for completed 2018 World Cup matches with bracket progression from Round of 16 to the final, showing France 59% vs Croatia 41%.

Charts 2018-07-11

In-match win probabilities for completed matches and FiveThirtyEight's World Cup final forecast

From How France And Croatia Made It To The World Cup Final, In One Chart by Rachael Dottle

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 47.9% and Republicans at 39.5% as of July 12, 2018.

Charts 2018-07-13

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From Is Trump Fueling Republicans’ Concerns About NATO, Or Echoing Them? by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Diverging bar chart showing unfavorable and favorable views of NATO across member countries, with Poland highest at 79% favorable and Turkey lowest at 23% favorable.

Charts 2018-07-13

In many NATO member countries, majorities approve of the alliance

From Is Trump Fueling Republicans’ Concerns About NATO, Or Echoing Them? by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to May 2023 day 539, with disapproval at 52.7% and approval at 42.3%.

Charts 2018-07-13

Presidential Approval Ratings: 52.7% Disapprove, 42.3% Approve (Day 539)

From Is Trump Fueling Republicans’ Concerns About NATO, Or Echoing Them? by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Diverging bar chart showing the average share of Republicans supporting remaining in or withdrawing from NATO in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Charts 2018-07-13

Republicans are warming up to withdrawal from NATO

From Is Trump Fueling Republicans’ Concerns About NATO, Or Echoing Them? by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Dot plot titled 'Better to use Ultra-Speed Trafficway?' showing red and green dots across columns A–U ranked from 5th to 60th place.

Charts 2018-07-13

Better to use Ultra-Speed Trafficway?

From Can You Slice This In Half? by Oliver Roeder

Contour map showing optimal PBJ delivery time in minutes across a grid labeled A-U on the x-axis and 5th-60th on the y-axis, with a red dot marking the minimum near F-20th.

Charts 2018-07-13

Optimal PBJ delivery time (mins)

From Can You Slice This In Half? by Oliver Roeder

Soccer field diagram showing Paul Pogba's passing zone differences between 2017-18 EPL and 2018 World Cup, with percentage point changes displayed in colored grid zones.

Other 2018-07-13

Pogba is passing from further back in his World Cup play

From France Is Rich With Offense But Is Winning With Defense by Michael Caley

Bubble timeline chart showing special investigations since 1973 with indictments and guilty pleas per week, comparing Mueller's Russia probe to past investigations by presidency.

Charts 2018-07-13

More charges from Mueller

From The Mueller Investigation Keeps Growing Fast by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Three scatter plots showing U.S. wildfire trends from 1985-2017: number of wildfires per year is consistent, total acres burned has risen dramatically, and average fire size is increasing.

Charts 2018-07-17

The number of wildfires each year is fairly consistent ... but acres burned has risen dramatically

From Wildfires In The U.S. Are Getting Bigger by Maggie Koerth

Radar/rose chart showing Hirving Lozano's 2018 World Cup performance stats alongside nine most similar historical World Cup performances including Damien Duff, Arjen Robben, and Kylian Mbappé.

Charts 2018-07-17

Hirving Lozano — Most Similar World Cup Performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar-style circular chart showing Hirving Lozano's soccer performance stats across Attack, Passing & dribbling, Defense, and Other categories for Mexico 2018.

Charts 2018-07-17

Hirving Lozano — Player Performance Radar Chart

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar-style performance chart for Kieran Trippier (England 2018) showing attack, defense, passing and other stats, alongside nine most similar World Cup player performances.

Other 2018-07-17

Kieran Trippier – Most Similar World Cup Performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar-style polar chart showing Kieran Trippier's soccer performance metrics across attack, defense, passing and dribbling, and other categories for England 2018.

Charts 2018-07-17

Kieran Trippier — England 2018 Player Performance Radar

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar-style circular chart showing Kylian Mbappé's soccer performance stats across attack, passing and dribbling, defense, and other categories for France 2018.

Charts 2018-07-17

Kylian Mbappé Player Profile – France 2018

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Charts 2018-07-17

Kylian Mbappé — Most Similar World Cup Performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar/rose charts showing the nine most similar World Cup performances to a reference player, ranked 1-9 with player name, country, and year.

Charts 2018-07-17

Most similar World Cup performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Nine polar/radar charts ranking the most similar World Cup performances to a reference player, showing players like Miroslav Klose, Andrzej Szarmach, and Adriano with colored segments.

Charts 2018-07-17

Most similar World Cup performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar/rose charts comparing nine soccer players with most similar World Cup performances, ranked 1-9 with player name, country, and year.

Charts 2018-07-17

Most similar World Cup performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Ranked radar/rose charts showing the 9 most similar World Cup performances to a reference player, with colored segments representing different performance metrics.

Charts 2018-07-17

Most similar World Cup performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar/rose charts showing the 9 most similar World Cup performances to a reference player, ranked 1-9 including Damien Duff, Juan Cuadrado, Arjen Robben, and others.

Charts 2018-07-17

Most similar World Cup performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar-style rose chart profiling Romelu Lukaku's 2018 World Cup performance stats alongside nine most similar historical World Cup performers including Klose, Voller, and van Persie.

Charts 2018-07-17

Romelu Lukaku – Most Similar World Cup Performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar-style polar chart showing Romelu Lukaku's soccer performance metrics across attack, passing and dribbling, defense, and other categories for Belgium 2018.

Charts 2018-07-17

Romelu Lukaku — Belgium 2018 Player Performance Radar

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radial performance chart for Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland 2018) showing attack, defense, passing, and other stats, alongside nine most similar World Cup player performances as small multiples.

Charts 2018-07-17

Xherdan Shaqiri Most Similar World Cup Performances

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Radar-style circular chart showing Xherdan Shaqiri's soccer performance metrics across attack, passing and dribbling, defense, and other categories for Switzerland 2018.

Charts 2018-07-17

Xherdan Shaqiri Player Profile — Switzerland 2018

From The Player Kylian Mbappe Really Plays Like by Bobby Gardiner

Scatter plot showing MLB teams' All-Star Game batting WAR per season vs pitching WAR per season from 1933-2017, with the Indians leading in both dimensions.

Charts 2018-07-17

Nobody throws an All-Star party like the Indians

From Who Needs A World Series? The Indians Are Dominating The All-Star Game by Neil Paine

Scatter plot showing average global confidence in the U.S. president vs. favorable view of the U.S. from 2005-2017, comparing Bush, Obama, and Trump eras.

Charts 2018-07-18

Perceptions of the U.S. abroad return to Bush-era levels

From Would Republicans Be Better Off If Clinton Were President?

Stacked bar chart comparing federal judges confirmed by the Senate through July 12 of the second year for seven US presidents, broken down by Supreme Court justices, appeals court judges, and district court judges.

Charts 2018-07-18

Trump has appointed more appeals court judges than any other recent president at same point in tenure

From Would Republicans Be Better Off If Clinton Were President?

Dot plot showing net support for Supreme Court nominees by party identification from Bork 1987 to Kavanaugh 2018, illustrating growing partisan divide.

Charts 2018-07-18

Supreme Court confirmations are more partisan now

From Brett Kavanaugh Is Polling Like Robert Bork And Harriet Miers by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart showing the probability that all five Supreme Court conservative justices survive together through future years, with small individual survival charts for Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch.

Charts 2018-07-19

How long will the court's conservative wing last?

From How Long Will The Supreme Court’s Conservative Bloc Survive? by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing survival probability of the Supreme Court's liberal bloc and each individual justice over time, with small multiples for Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan.

Charts 2018-07-19

How long will the court's liberal wing last?

From How Long Will The Supreme Court’s Conservative Bloc Survive? by Oliver Roeder

Icon grid chart showing winners by nationality of the four major golf tournaments from 1990 to 2018, with orange blocks for American winners and outlined blocks for other nationalities.

Charts 2018-07-19

Americans are major powers

From I Believe That We Will Win … At Golf by Josh Planos

World map showing land and ocean temperature percentiles for May 2018, color-coded from record coldest (blue) to record warmest (dark red), from NOAA NCEI.

Maps 2018-07-19

Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles May 2018

From What Climate Change Looks Like In 2018 by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 48.7% and Republicans at 39.4% as of July 19, 2018.

Charts 2018-07-20

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From What Some Early, High-Quality Polls Can Tell Us About The Race For The House by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over 546 days from January 2023 to mid-2024, with disapproval at 52.8% and approval at 41.8%.

Charts 2018-07-20

Presidential Approval Ratings Over Time (Day 546)

From What Some Early, High-Quality Polls Can Tell Us About The Race For The House by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Two US maps comparing the number of sole community Catholic hospitals in 2011 (29) versus 2016 (45), with dots marking hospital locations.

Maps 2018-07-25

Many isolated communities have only a Catholic hospital

From How Catholic Bishops Are Shaping Health Care In Rural America by Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Line chart showing the percentage of Americans mentioning immigration as the nation's top problem from January 2001 to July 2018, peaking at 22% in mid-2018.

Charts 2018-07-26

Immigration as Nation's Top Problem: January 2001–July 2018

From Is Trump Facing Any Political Fallout For The Family Separation Crisis? by Janie Velencia

Bar chart showing the number of social science studies using Twitter data published each year from 2007 to 2012, rising sharply from near zero to about 145.

Charts 2018-07-26

Twitter data use in the social sciences increased quickly

From Your Tweets Are Somehow Worthy Of Scientific Study by Maggie Koerth

Line chart showing Democratic vs Republican generic ballot polling averages from May 2017 through Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 48.1% and Republicans at 39.9%.

Charts 2018-07-27

Generic Ballot Polling: Democrats vs Republicans (2017–2018)

From How Every Governor Ranks According To ‘Popularity Above Replacement Governor’ by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to July 2024, with disapproval at 53.0% and approval at 41.3% on Day 553.

Charts 2018-07-27

Presidential Approval Ratings: 53.0% Disapprove, 41.3% Approve

From How Every Governor Ranks According To ‘Popularity Above Replacement Governor’ by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing favorable opinions of the FBI from 2010 to 2018 by party affiliation, with Republicans dropping to 49% while Democrats rose to 77%.

Charts 2018-07-27

Republicans' views of FBI turn far less positive

From How Every Governor Ranks According To ‘Popularity Above Replacement Governor’ by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Icon array chart showing accurate vs inaccurate 'leave early' predictions for 1,750 MLB games in 2016, broken down by inning the model said to leave.

Charts 2018-07-30

How much late-inning drama you would have missed

From When Is It Safe To Leave A Baseball Game? by Kaiser Fung, Pravin Santhanam, Sriram Subramanian

Line chart showing the probability that the leading baseball team wins, by run differential and inning, highlighting that a 4-run lead after the 6th inning gives over 95% win probability.

Charts 2018-07-30

When are baseball fans safe to leave the game?

From When Is It Safe To Leave A Baseball Game? by Kaiser Fung, Pravin Santhanam, Sriram Subramanian

Four small multiples bar charts showing tweets by Internet Research Agency troll categories (Left Troll, Right Troll, News Feed, Hashtag Gamer) over time from 2015 to 2018.

Charts 2018-07-31

Not all trolls are the same

From Why We’re Sharing 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets by Oliver Roeder

Area chart showing Russian troll tweets per day from 2015 to 2018, with annotations for Oct. 6 2016 WikiLeaks spike, Nov. 8 2016 Election Day, and Summer 2017 high season for Right Trolls.

Charts 2018-07-31

Russian troll tweets by day

From Why We’re Sharing 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets by Oliver Roeder

Area chart showing the share of total MLB prospect value held by farm systems of the top one-third of teams from 1990 to 2018, with a gap for partial seasons in 1994-95.

Charts 2018-07-31

Top teams have fewer prospects this year

From How MLB’s Tankathon Is Skewing The Trade Market by Neil Paine

Small multiples scatter plots comparing Donald Trump's 2016 vote share with Google search interest for seven major sports by media market, showing NFL has near-flat appeal across political lines.

Charts 2018-07-31

The NFL has appeal everywhere

From Why LeBron Can Say Whatever He Wants About Politics by Perry Bacon Jr