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August 2018 graphics

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Choropleth map of the US showing share of hospital beds in Catholic hospitals by state in 2016, with Midwest states darkest and Wisconsin annotated at 41%.

Maps 2018-08-01

Hospitals are more likely to be Catholic in the Midwest

From Insurers Can Send Patients To Religious Hospitals That Restrict Reproductive Care by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

US county map highlighting counties that voted more Republican than in 2012 and counties that flipped Republican, shown in shades of red.

Maps 2018-08-01

Counties That Voted More Republican or Flipped Republican vs. 2012

From Who Are The Most Important Swing Voters In This Year’s Midterms?

County-level map of the upper Midwest showing Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Michigan with certain counties highlighted in red.

Maps 2018-08-01

Upper Midwest Counties Map (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan)

From Who Are The Most Important Swing Voters In This Year’s Midterms?

MLB.com projected roster graphic for the Tampa Bay Rays as of Aug 1, 2018, showing player headshots arranged by field position on a baseball diamond.

Other 2018-08-01

Tampa Bay Rays Projected Roster – Aug 1, 2018

From All The Things MLB Teams Did Wrong At The Trade Deadline

Line chart showing thyroid cancer cases rising from about 6 to 15 per 100,000 people between 1992 and 2015, while deaths remain flat near zero.

Charts 2018-08-02

Thyroid cancers are on the rise, but deaths are flat

From The Case Against Screening For Thyroid Cancer by Christie Aschwanden

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to Election Day Nov. 6, 2018, with Democrats at 47.4% and Republicans at 40.3% as of Aug. 2, 2018.

Charts 2018-08-03

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From The Gender Gap Among Midterm Voters Looks Huge — Maybe Even Record-Breaking by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to July 2023 Day 560, with disapprove at 52.8% and approve at 41.4%.

Charts 2018-08-03

Presidential Approval Ratings: 52.8% Disapprove, 41.4% Approve

From The Gender Gap Among Midterm Voters Looks Huge — Maybe Even Record-Breaking by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Bar chart showing the share of GOP Senate and House primaries won by candidates with no political experience from 1980 to 2016, with 2016 highlighted in red at about 61%.

Charts 2018-08-06

2016 was a banner year for GOP outsiders

From Can Science Save Politics? Or Will Politics Ruin Science? by Maggie Koerth

Horizontal bar chart showing Boston Red Sox net WAR added and subtracted via arrivals, departures, and holdovers each season from 2015 to 2018 under Dave Dombrowski.

Charts 2018-08-07

Boston's WAR math under Dave Dombrowski

From Dave Dombrowski Fixed The Red Sox — But He Didn’t Do It Alone by Neil Paine

Two bar charts comparing news outlet bias/unbiased ratings, one from Democrats and one from Republicans, with blue bars for unbiased and pink bars for biased.

Charts 2018-08-08

News Outlet Bias Ratings by Party

From How Can Journalists Prove They’re Not The Enemy?

Stacked bar chart showing racial breakdown of 2016 political reporting teams and editorial staff by newsroom, with percentages for White, African American, Latino, and Asian staff.

Charts 2018-08-08

Racial breakdown of 2016 political reporting teams by newsroom

From How Can Journalists Prove They’re Not The Enemy?

Grouped bar chart comparing trust in Trump vs. news media to tell the truth about important issues, by political affiliation, from Quinnipiac University polling July 2018.

Charts 2018-08-08

Trust to tell the truth about important issues?

From How Can Journalists Prove They’re Not The Enemy?

Network graph showing clusters of Twitter topics related to Black Lives Matter, with labeled nodes representing hashtag communities and their percentage shares.

Charts 2018-08-08

Black Lives Matter Twitter Topic Network Graph

From We Gave You 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets. Here’s What You’ve Found So Far. by Oliver Roeder

A waffle or grid chart showing colored squares in blue, pink, purple, salmon, teal, and green arranged in a roughly circular pattern on a white grid background.

Charts 2018-08-08

Colored Grid/Waffle Chart

From We Gave You 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets. Here’s What You’ve Found So Far. by Oliver Roeder

Network graph showing clusters of pro-Trump Twitter bot activity labeled by topic such as CNN is fake news, NFL Protests, Hillary Voter Fraud, and Antifa Violence with percentage shares.

Charts 2018-08-08

Pro-Trump Twitter Bot Topic Clusters Network Graph

From We Gave You 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets. Here’s What You’ve Found So Far. by Oliver Roeder

Network graph showing Twitter mention connections among 1245 Russian troll accounts, color-coded by account type including NonEnglish, RightTroll, LeftTroll, and others.

Charts 2018-08-08

Russian Troll to Russian Troll Twitter Mention Network (n=1245)

From We Gave You 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets. Here’s What You’ve Found So Far. by Oliver Roeder

Bar chart showing number of troll tweets per day from Jan 2015 to Apr 2018, with spikes annotated for Fort McMurray Fire, Quebec City mosque shooting, and border crossings.

Charts 2018-08-08

When trolls tweet the most

From We Gave You 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets. Here’s What You’ve Found So Far. by Oliver Roeder

FiveThirtyEight Premier League 2018-19 season predictions table showing team ratings, average simulated season stats, and end-of-season probabilities for all 20 clubs.

Tables 2018-08-10

Premier League 2018-19 Season Predictions

From Who’s The Favorite And Who’s A Sleeper In The English Premier League? by Terrence Doyle

Soccer match stats table showing Everton 4 vs Man City 0 on 1/15, with adjusted goals, shot-based xG, and non-shot xG for each team.

Tables 2018-08-10

Everton 4 vs Man. City 0 — Match Stats Table

From How Our Club Soccer Predictions Work by Jay Boice

Multi-panel chart showing pre-match goal probability distributions for Liverpool and Brighton, plus a heatmap matrix of every possible final score probability for their May 13, 2018 match.

Charts 2018-08-10

From projected goals to a match forecast: Liverpool vs. Brighton, May 13, 2018

From How Our Club Soccer Predictions Work by Jay Boice

Area chart showing the height gap in inches between NBA average centers and average point guards weighted by minutes played, from 1977 to 2018, illustrating a narrowing trend.

Charts 2018-08-15

The gap between the NBA's tall and small is narrowing

From The NBA’s Small Guys Are Getting Bigger, And That’s Bad News For Isaiah Thomas by Chris Herring, Dimitrije Ćurčić

S-curve line chart showing probability of no defective rugs when manufacturing 1,000,000 rugs as a function of the number of different colors used, rising steeply between 4 and 6 colors.

Charts 2018-08-17

Manufacturing 1,000,000 rugs

From Step 1: Game Theory. Step 2: ???? Step 3: Profit! by Oliver Roeder

Line chart showing Democratic vs Republican generic ballot polling averages from May 2017 through November 2018 election day, with Democrats at 47.7% and Republicans at 39.9%.

Charts 2018-08-20

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

From Will Backing Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Help Or Hurt Red-State Democrats? by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over 575 days from January 2023 to July 2024, with disapproval at 52.5% and approval at 42.0%.

Charts 2018-08-20

Presidential Approval Ratings Over Time (Day 575)

From Will Backing Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Help Or Hurt Red-State Democrats? by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing preseason Elo ratings for NFL expansion teams since 1970 by season of existence, with Cleveland highlighted in orange returning to its starting Elo of 1300.

Charts 2018-08-20

Cleveland is right back where it started

From The Browns’ Suckiness Defies Math And Reason by Neil Paine

Heatmap showing Francisco Lindor's pitch location density from the catcher's perspective, with a color scale from 5 to 45 and a strike zone rectangle overlay.

Charts 2018-08-21

Francisco Lindor Heatmap

From Cleveland Has Taken The Fly-Ball Revolution To The Next Level by Travis Sawchik

Heatmap showing Francisco Lindor's pitch location density from the catcher's perspective, with a color scale from white to black indicating frequency from 5 to 40.

Charts 2018-08-21

Francisco Lindor Heatmap

From Cleveland Has Taken The Fly-Ball Revolution To The Next Level by Travis Sawchik

Heatmap showing pitch location density for Jose Ramirez from the catcher's perspective, with a color scale ranging from 5 to 30+.

Charts 2018-08-21

Jose Ramirez Heatmap

From Cleveland Has Taken The Fly-Ball Revolution To The Next Level by Travis Sawchik

Heatmap showing Jose Ramirez's pitch location density from the catcher's perspective, with a color scale from white (5) to black (35+) indicating pitch frequency.

Charts 2018-08-21

Jose Ramirez Heatmap

From Cleveland Has Taken The Fly-Ball Revolution To The Next Level by Travis Sawchik

Line chart showing generic congressional ballot polling from May 2017 to November 2018, with Democrats at 47.8% and Republicans at 40.0% as of Aug. 23, 2018.

Charts 2018-08-24

Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats vs. Republicans 2017-2018

From Could A Libertarian Win A Senate Race This Year? by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over 581 days from January 2023 to July 2024, with disapproval at 53.0% and approval at 42.1%.

Charts 2018-08-24

Presidential Approval Ratings: 53.0% Disapprove, 42.1% Approve (Day 581)

From Could A Libertarian Win A Senate Race This Year? by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing Trevor Cahill's daily 15-game rolling average pitching stats (ERA, SI%, SL%, CH%, CU%) from 2015 to 2018, sourced from FanGraphs.

Charts 2018-08-24

Trevor Cahill's Daily 15-Game Rolling Average Pitching Stats, 2015-2018

From The A’s Changed Baseball Once. They May Be Changing It Again. by Travis Sawchik

Two histogram charts comparing how often senators voted with their party on party-line votes in 1987-96 vs 1997-2015, with McCain's position highlighted in black.

Charts 2018-08-26

Congress became more polarized, while McCain mostly stayed put

From John McCain Was A Maverick — And A Politician by Clare Malone

Line chart comparing McCain's American Conservative Union legislative ratings versus the median Republican senator from 1988 to 2015, showing McCain becoming less conservative over time.

Charts 2018-08-26

McCain became less reliably 'conservative'

From John McCain Was A Maverick — And A Politician by Clare Malone

Line chart comparing McCain's share of party-line votes with Republicans versus the median senator from the 100th to 114th Congress, 1987 to 2016.

Charts 2018-08-26

McCain wobbled off and on the party line

From John McCain Was A Maverick — And A Politician by Clare Malone

Line chart showing the declining number of adjusted batted balls in play per MLB season from 1978 to 2018, illustrating a long-term downward trend.

Charts 2018-08-28

There's less and less to defend in baseball

From Baseball Positions Are Starting To Lose Their Meaning by Travis Sawchik

Donut chart showing the Democratic Party's 713 superdelegates by category: 432 DNC members, 193 U.S. Representatives, 47 U.S. Senators, 21 Governors, and 20 Distinguished party leaders.

Charts 2018-08-29

Who are the Democratic Party's superdelegates?

From Are Democrats Courting Chaos In 2020 By Limiting The Power Of Superdelegates?

Sankey-style diagram showing how FiveThirtyEight's Lite, Classic, and Deluxe forecast models weight adjusted polls, CANTOR, fundamentals, and experts to produce final election forecasts.

Other 2018-08-29

FiveThirtyEight Forecast Model Inputs: Lite, Classic, and Deluxe

From Election Update: Check Out How The Forecast Works For All 435 House Races by Micah Cohen

Polling data table showing Hill vs Knight margins with adjustments from three pollsters including IMGE Insights, Global Strategy Group, and Fairbank Maslin Maullin Metz & Associates.

Tables 2018-08-29

Hill vs. Knight Poll Averages with Adjustments

From Election Update: Check Out How The Forecast Works For All 435 House Races by Micah Cohen

FiveThirtyEight election forecast showing Katie Hill (D) with a 3-in-4 chance of winning (75.1%) versus Steve Knight (R) incumbent with a 1-in-4 chance (24.9%), with forecasted vote shares of 52.5% and 47.5%.

Other 2018-08-29

Katie Hill vs. Steve Knight Election Forecast

From Election Update: Check Out How The Forecast Works For All 435 House Races by Micah Cohen

Line chart comparing the combined probability of making the College Football Playoff by preseason AP ranking in the CFP era versus the pre-CFP era, showing lower-ranked teams have had it harder in the playoff era.

Charts 2018-08-30

Lower-ranked teams have had it harder in the playoff era

From Don’t Expect College Football’s Elite Programs To Stop Hogging All The Playoff Spots by Neil Paine

Line chart showing the correlation between recruiting rank and previous season's Elo ranking for ESPN top 25 recruiting classes from 2006 to 2018, trending upward overall.

Charts 2018-08-30

Top prospects are going to teams that are already good

From Don’t Expect College Football’s Elite Programs To Stop Hogging All The Playoff Spots by Neil Paine

Line chart showing the declining number of NFL players age 30 or older who started at least eight games per season from 2007 to 2017.

Charts 2018-08-30

The 30-somethings are dwindling

From The NFL Is No League For Old Men by Michael Salfino

Line chart showing Democratic vs Republican generic ballot polling averages from May 2017 through November 2018 election day, with Democrats at 48.2% and Republicans at 40.0%.

Charts 2018-08-31

Generic Ballot Polling Average: Democrats vs Republicans 2017-2018

From How Much Trouble Is Ted Cruz Really In? by Dhrumil Mehta, Janie Velencia

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January 2023 to July 2023 (Day 588), with disapproval at 53.5% and approval at 41.5%.

Charts 2018-08-31

Presidential Approval Ratings Over Time (Day 588)

From How Much Trouble Is Ted Cruz Really In? by Dhrumil Mehta, Janie Velencia

Bar chart showing average game duration in minutes increasing with the number of hoops, from near 0 minutes at 1 hoop to about 58 minutes at 80 hoops.

Charts 2018-08-31

Average Game Duration vs. Number of Hoops

From The New National Pastime: Competitive Coin Flipping by Oliver Roeder