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Line chart showing Democratic (48.0%) and Republican (40.3%) polling averages with confidence intervals from April 2019 through Election Day Nov. 3, 2020.

Charts 2020-05-01

Democrats vs. Republicans polling average April 2019–Election Day 2020

From We’ve Got Some Early Trump vs. Biden Swing State Polling by Perry Bacon Jr

Line chart showing Trump approval and disapproval ratings from January 2017 through early 2020, with disapproval at 52.4% and approval at 42.9% on Day 1197.

Charts 2020-05-01

Trump Approval Rating: 52.4% Disapprove, 42.9% Approve

From We’ve Got Some Early Trump vs. Biden Swing State Polling by Perry Bacon Jr

Scatter plot comparing Metacritic user scores vs. Metascores for NBA Live and NBA 2K games from 2000-2019, highlighting low user scores for 2K18, 2K19, and 2K20.

Charts 2020-05-01

... and NBA 2K, too

From Video Games Are Having A Moment — But Sports Games Are In A Rut by Neil Paine

Scatter plot comparing Metacritic user scores vs. Metascores for Madden and NFL 2K games from 2000-2019, showing recent Madden titles receiving very low user scores.

Charts 2020-05-01

Critics and users are revolting against Madden ...

From Video Games Are Having A Moment — But Sports Games Are In A Rut by Neil Paine

Area chart showing online news articles mentioning Tara Reade by media outlet ideology from March to May 2020, with conservative outlets dominating early coverage.

Charts 2020-05-05

Conservative outlets accounted for most early coverage

From How The Media Has — And Hasn’t — Covered Tara Reade’s Allegation by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing number of 15-second TV clips mentioning Tara Reade on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC from March to May 2020, with Fox leading coverage.

Charts 2020-05-05

Fox led cable networks in covering the Biden accusation

From How The Media Has — And Hasn’t — Covered Tara Reade’s Allegation by Nathaniel Rakich, Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing average Hall of Fame vote share by year on the ballot for players who eventually made it, rising from about 48% in year 1 to around 65% by year 9.

Charts 2020-05-05

Hall of Famers tend to start high and make steady gains

From Todd Helton’s Mile-High Stats Were Too Damn Good To Believe by Neil Paine

Line chart showing approval of Trump's coronavirus response by party from February to May 2020, with Republicans at 84.1%, Independents at 40.3%, and Democrats at 14.5%.

Charts 2020-05-06

Approval of Trump's response varies widely by party

From How Political Is The Coronavirus Pandemic Already?

Horizontal bar chart showing percentages of people doing various coronavirus pandemic behaviors, with breakdowns by Democrat and GOP on May 1 and April 16, 2020.

Charts 2020-05-06

Things People Are Doing in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

From How Political Is The Coronavirus Pandemic Already?

Stacked bar chart showing opinions on social distancing measures by political affiliation, with Republicans most likely to favor relaxing restrictions at 32%.

Charts 2020-05-06

When it comes to social distancing, what do you think we, as a country, need to be doing right now?

From How Political Is The Coronavirus Pandemic Already?

Line chart comparing Joe Burrow's sideline throw completion percentage vs. NCAA Power Five average by depth of target from line of scrimmage, 2019 season.

Charts 2020-05-06

Burrow had some trouble with throws to the sidelines

From What To Expect From The Top Quarterbacks Taken In This Year’s Draft by Josh Hermsmeyer

Line chart comparing Joe Burrow's pass completion percentage vs. NCAA Power Five average by depth of target from the line of scrimmage in the 2019 season.

Charts 2020-05-06

Burrow made more passes than expected at most depths

From What To Expect From The Top Quarterbacks Taken In This Year’s Draft by Josh Hermsmeyer

Line chart comparing Justin Herbert's pass completion percentage vs. NCAA Power Five average by depth of target from the line of scrimmage in the 2019 season.

Charts 2020-05-06

Herbert was average at completing passes

From What To Expect From The Top Quarterbacks Taken In This Year’s Draft by Josh Hermsmeyer

Line chart comparing Tua Tagovailoa's completion percentage vs NCAA Power Five average by depth of target from the line of scrimmage in the 2019 season.

Charts 2020-05-06

Tagovailoa also performed better than expected

From What To Expect From The Top Quarterbacks Taken In This Year’s Draft by Josh Hermsmeyer

Tile grid map of US states colored by share of COVID-19 deaths with unknown race, as of May 6, 2020, ranging from 0% to 100%.

Maps 2020-05-07

Data on COVID-19 deaths often omits race

From Many States Are Reporting Race Data For Only Some COVID-19 Cases And Deaths by Soo Rin Kim, Matthew Vann

Tile grid map of US states colored by share of positive COVID-19 cases with unknown patient race as of May 6, 2020, ranging from 0% to 100%.

Maps 2020-05-07

Many states are missing race data on COVID-19 cases

From Many States Are Reporting Race Data For Only Some COVID-19 Cases And Deaths by Soo Rin Kim, Matthew Vann

Horizontal bar chart showing expert estimates of total COVID-19 deaths in the US by end of 2020, with most experts estimating fewer than 1 million deaths.

Charts 2020-05-07

Most experts expect fewer than 1 million deaths

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Texas Will See An Increase In Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Bar chart showing expert probability estimates for total U.S. COVID-19 confirmed cases falling within each range by May 10, with peak probability around 1.35m-1.4m cases.

Charts 2020-05-07

Most researchers expect over 1.3 million cases by May 10

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Texas Will See An Increase In Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Bar chart showing expert probability estimates for different seven-day averages of new COVID-19 cases in Texas for the week of June 7-13, with bars ranging from under 675 to over 1,800 cases.

Charts 2020-05-07

Texas may have a long road ahead

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Texas Will See An Increase In Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Bar chart showing expert probability estimates for how many U.S. states will report more COVID-19 cases in September than June, across seven ranges.

Charts 2020-05-07

There's no consensus on how bad the fall will be

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Texas Will See An Increase In Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Bar chart showing expert probability estimates for different seven-day averages of new COVID-19 cases in Texas for June 7-13 if social distancing measures had remained in place.

Charts 2020-05-07

What Texas might have seen, had restrictions remained

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Texas Will See An Increase In Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Line chart showing approval and disapproval of Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis from February to May 2020, with key milestones marked by dashed lines.

Charts 2020-05-08

Do Americans approve of Trump's response to the coronavirus crisis?

From Most Americans Think It’s Too Soon To Return To What Life Was Like Pre-Pandemic by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart showing Democratic vs Republican generic ballot polling averages from April 2019 to Election Day Nov. 3, 2020, with Democrats at 48.5% and Republicans at 40.6% as of May 7, 2020.

Charts 2020-05-08

Generic Ballot Polling: Democrats 48.5% vs Republicans 40.6%

From Most Americans Think It’s Too Soon To Return To What Life Was Like Pre-Pandemic by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart showing how worried Americans are about coronavirus infection from February to May 2020, with four concern levels tracked over time.

Charts 2020-05-08

How worried are Americans about infection?

From Most Americans Think It’s Too Soon To Return To What Life Was Like Pre-Pandemic by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart showing how concerned Americans are about the coronavirus's effect on the U.S. economy from February to May 2020, with four concern levels tracked over time.

Charts 2020-05-08

How worried are Americans about the economy?

From Most Americans Think It’s Too Soon To Return To What Life Was Like Pre-Pandemic by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart showing Trump approval and disapproval ratings from January 2017 through Day 1,204, with disapproval at 51.4% and approval at 43.3%.

Charts 2020-05-08

Trump Approval Rating Over Time (All Polls)

From Most Americans Think It’s Too Soon To Return To What Life Was Like Pre-Pandemic by Nathaniel Rakich

3D visualization showing two gold-colored geometric shapes on a grid: a triangular surface with contour lines on the left and a stepped bar chart on the right, with XYZ axes visible.

Charts 2020-05-08

3D Chart with Triangular Surface and Stepped Bar Chart

From Can You Eat An Apple Like A Toddler? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Line chart showing the seasonally adjusted civilian unemployment rate from 2000 to 2020, spiking to nearly 15% in April 2020 with a note that the true rate may be 5 points higher.

Charts 2020-05-08

April's unemployment rate skyrocketed to historic levels

From The Terrible Jobs Report Gets Worse The More You Read It by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Julia Wolfe

Line chart showing the US employment-population ratio seasonally adjusted from about 2000 to 2020, with a sharp drop around 2020.

Charts 2020-05-08

The share of adults who are employed is way, way down

From The Terrible Jobs Report Gets Worse The More You Read It by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Julia Wolfe

Line chart showing Democratic vs Republican polling averages from April 2019 to Election Day Nov. 3, 2020, with Democrats at 48.5% and Republicans at 40.5% as of May 10, 2020.

Charts 2020-05-11

Democrats 48.5% vs Republicans 40.5% — Polling Average Through May 2020

From Democrats Lead The Race For Congress — But The National Environment Will Probably Change by Geoffrey Skelley

Editorial map showing congressional districts in California and Wisconsin with highlighted regions, labeled House Update.

Maps 2020-05-11

House Update: California and Wisconsin Congressional Districts

From Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020 by Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel Rakich

Scatter plot showing Trump vote share vs. share of ballots cast by mail for Florida counties in the 2016 presidential election, with a downward trend line indicating more Democratic counties voted more by mail.

Charts 2020-05-12

More Democratic counties tended to vote more by mail

From There Is No Evidence That Voting By Mail Gives One Party An Advantage by Lee Drutman

Horizontal bar chart showing the share of ballots cast by mail in each US state in the 2016 presidential election, with bars colored blue for Clinton states and red for Trump states.

Charts 2020-05-12

What the vote-by-mail landscape looked like in 2016

From There Is No Evidence That Voting By Mail Gives One Party An Advantage by Lee Drutman

Horizontal bar chart showing expert estimates of average daily new COVID-19 cases in Washington the week of June 1-7 under a universal Phase 2 start, with individual expert ranges and an expert consensus bar.

Charts 2020-05-14

An accelerated start could mean more cases

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Washington State’s Slow Reopening Will Mean Fewer Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Horizontal bar chart showing expert estimates of total COVID-19 deaths in Pennsylvania by June 13, with individual expert ranges and an expert consensus bar.

Charts 2020-05-14

Could Pennsylvania see 10,000 COVID-19 deaths?

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Washington State’s Slow Reopening Will Mean Fewer Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Bar chart showing expert probability estimates for total U.S. COVID-19 confirmed cases falling within various ranges on May 17, with most probability mass between 1.45 and 1.55 million.

Charts 2020-05-14

Most researchers expect over 1.45 million cases by May 17

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Washington State’s Slow Reopening Will Mean Fewer Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Horizontal bar chart showing expert estimates of average daily COVID-19 cases in Washington state for the week of June 1-7, with individual expert ranges and an expert consensus bar.

Charts 2020-05-14

Will Washington state stay under 500 cases per day?

From Infectious-Disease Experts Think Washington State’s Slow Reopening Will Mean Fewer Cases by Josh Hermsmeyer

Line chart showing approval and disapproval of Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis from February to May 2020, with disapproval at 52.5% and approval at 43.3% as of May 14, 2020.

Charts 2020-05-15

Do Americans approve of Trump's response to the coronavirus crisis?

From Democrats Say The Worst Of The Coronavirus Is Yet To Come. Republicans Say The Worst Is Over. by Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing Democratic and Republican generic ballot polling averages from April 2019 to Election Day Nov. 3, 2020, with Democrats at 48.9% and Republicans at 41.2% as of April 7, 2020.

Charts 2020-05-15

Generic Ballot Polling: Democrats 48.9% vs Republicans 41.2%

From Democrats Say The Worst Of The Coronavirus Is Yet To Come. Republicans Say The Worst Is Over. by Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing how concerned Americans are about coronavirus infection from February to May 2020, with four levels: Somewhat (36.3%), Very (31.7%), Not very (19.8%), and Not at all (11.7%).

Charts 2020-05-15

How worried are Americans about infection?

From Democrats Say The Worst Of The Coronavirus Is Yet To Come. Republicans Say The Worst Is Over. by Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing how concerned Americans are about the coronavirus's effect on the U.S. economy from February to May 2020, with four concern levels tracked over time.

Charts 2020-05-15

How worried are Americans about the economy?

From Democrats Say The Worst Of The Coronavirus Is Yet To Come. Republicans Say The Worst Is Over. by Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing Trump approval and disapproval ratings from January 2017 through April 2020 (Day 1,211), with disapproval at 52.0% and approval at 43.6%.

Charts 2020-05-15

Trump Approval Rating Over Time

From Democrats Say The Worst Of The Coronavirus Is Yet To Come. Republicans Say The Worst Is Over. by Dhrumil Mehta

Tile grid map of the US showing each state's median unemployment insurance replacement rate including CARES Act funds, color-coded from 120% to 170%.

Charts 2020-05-15

Unemployment benefits can exceed wages

From Many Americans Are Getting More Money From Unemployment Than They Were From Their Jobs by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Line chart showing approval of Trump's coronavirus response by party from Feb to May 2020: Republicans at 82.2%, Independents at 39.4%, Democrats at 12.5%.

Charts 2020-05-22

Approval of Trump's response varies widely by party

From The Gap Between Democrats And Republicans Is Growing On The Coronavirus Crisis by Geoffrey Skelley

Line chart showing Democratic vs Republican polling averages from April 2019 to Election Day Nov. 3, 2020, with Democrats at 48.2% and Republicans at 40.3% as of May 21, 2020.

Charts 2020-05-22

Democrats vs. Republicans Polling Average April 2019–Nov. 2020

From The Gap Between Democrats And Republicans Is Growing On The Coronavirus Crisis by Geoffrey Skelley

Line chart showing how concerned Americans are about the coronavirus's effect on the U.S. economy from February to May 2020, with four concern levels tracked over time.

Charts 2020-05-22

How worried are Americans about the economy?

From The Gap Between Democrats And Republicans Is Growing On The Coronavirus Crisis by Geoffrey Skelley

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings from January 2017 to early 2020, with disapproval at 53.5% and approval at 42.8% on Day 1,218.

Charts 2020-05-22

Presidential Approval Ratings Over Time (Day 1,218)

From The Gap Between Democrats And Republicans Is Growing On The Coronavirus Crisis by Geoffrey Skelley

Area chart showing rolling daily average of total and temporary layoffs in California from March 8 to May 10, peaking near 20,000 around March 29, based on WARN Act filings.

Charts 2020-05-22

California layoffs continue under partial lockdown

From America’s Unemployment Numbers Are Stabilizing. That’s Not A Good Thing. by Neil Paine

Area chart showing rolling daily average of Texas layoffs per week based on WARN Act filings from mid-March to mid-May 2020, peaking near 3,600 around March 26.

Charts 2020-05-22

Texas layoffs have been up and down

From America’s Unemployment Numbers Are Stabilizing. That’s Not A Good Thing. by Neil Paine

Area chart showing total seasonally adjusted initial unemployment insurance claims in the US by week from March 14 to May 16, 2020, peaking near 7 million in late March then declining.

Charts 2020-05-22

The drop in initial claims is slowing

From America’s Unemployment Numbers Are Stabilizing. That’s Not A Good Thing. by Neil Paine

Complementary CDF curves for five different dice roll types: Advantage, Disadvantage of Advantage, Single roll, Advantage of Disadvantage, and Disadvantage.

Charts 2020-05-22

Complimentary CDF for different rolls

From Can You Find The Fish In State Names? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Overlapping histogram chart showing simulated probability density functions for AoD/DoA dice rolls across 100,000 trials, with result of roll on x-axis and frequency on y-axis.

Charts 2020-05-22

Simulated PDFs (exact result of AoD/DoA rolls)

From Can You Find The Fish In State Names? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Line chart showing offensive efficiency (wRC+) by MLB position from 2001 to 2019, highlighting catchers and shortstops against all other positions.

Charts 2020-05-22

Catchers have taken over as the worst hitters in baseball

From Catcher Is Baseball’s Most Endangered Position by Travis Sawchik

Bar chart showing expert probability estimates for U.S. real GDP returning to pre-crisis levels across half-year time frames from 2021 to beyond 2022.

Charts 2020-05-26

How long will it take for GDP to return to what it was?

From Don’t Expect A Quick Recovery. Our Survey Of Economists Says It Will Likely Take Years. by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Neil Paine

Horizontal bar chart showing expert estimates for the U.S. unemployment rate in December 2020, with each bar representing one expert's 80% confidence interval and a dot for their best estimate.

Charts 2020-05-26

It's hard to predict where the unemployment rate will be

From Don’t Expect A Quick Recovery. Our Survey Of Economists Says It Will Likely Take Years. by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Neil Paine

Bar chart showing expert probability estimates that the US unemployment rate will fall below 10 percent in each quarter from Q2 2020 through later than Q2 2021.

Charts 2020-05-26

When will the unemployment rate fall below 10 percent?

From Don’t Expect A Quick Recovery. Our Survey Of Economists Says It Will Likely Take Years. by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Neil Paine

Dot plot comparing 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential vote margins relative to national margin for Sunbelt and Midwest swing states.

Charts 2020-05-27

Soak up the sunbelt — Democratic vote margin by state vs. national

From Are Arizona, Georgia And Texas Really In Play? by Sarah Frostenson, Nathaniel Rakich, Geoffrey Skelley

Stacked area chart showing the share of straight-ticket versus split-ticket votes for president and House from 1952 to 2016, with straight-ticket votes dominating throughout.

Charts 2020-05-27

Some split tickets to balance their presidential choice

From How Much Trump Could Help (Or Harm) Down-Ballot Republicans In November by Geoffrey Skelley

Scatter plot showing popular vote margin by party for president and House elections from 1992 to 2016, with quadrants shaded red and blue.

Charts 2020-05-27

Votes for president and House often align

From How Much Trump Could Help (Or Harm) Down-Ballot Republicans In November by Geoffrey Skelley

Line chart showing game-by-game Elo rating for the Houston Comets from 1997 to 2000, illustrating their rise to become the best WNBA team ever.

Charts 2020-05-27

How Houston became the best WNBA team ever

From It’s Time To Give Basketball’s Other GOAT Her Due by Neil Paine

Dot plot showing percent of Americans with some or a lot of trust in various institutions to handle COVID-19, broken down by overall, Republicans, and Democrats.

Charts 2020-05-27

Trust in science and doctors remains high

From Most Americans Haven’t Stopped Trusting Scientists by Maggie Koerth

Line chart showing Democratic (48.2%) and Republican (40.5%) polling averages with confidence intervals from April 2019 through Election Day Nov. 3, 2020.

Charts 2020-05-29

Democrats vs. Republicans polling average April 2019 to Election Day 2020

From States Are Reopening, But Many Americans Say They Aren’t Rushing Back To Normal Life by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings from January 2017 to early 2020, with disapproval at 53.6% and approval at 42.6% on Day 1,225.

Charts 2020-05-29

Presidential Approval Ratings Through Day 1,225

From States Are Reopening, But Many Americans Say They Aren’t Rushing Back To Normal Life by Nathaniel Rakich

Eight maple leaf emojis arranged in a grid with a prohibition sign emoji in the center, likely representing Canada-related data with one unit excluded.

Other 2020-05-29

Maple Leaf Icon Grid with Prohibition Symbol

From Can You Join the World’s Biggest Zoom Call? by Zach Wissner-Gross

A pie or circular chart divided into three colored segments: pink on the left, blue upper right, and green lower right, with no visible labels.

Charts 2020-05-29

Three-Segment Circular Chart

From Can You Join the World’s Biggest Zoom Call? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Choropleth map of the United States showing states shaded in varying shades of blue, with state abbreviations labeled.

Maps 2020-05-29

US States Choropleth Map (Blue Shading)

From Can You Join the World’s Biggest Zoom Call? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Unit circle on a coordinate plane with a red circular outline, a blue line, a green line, and a horizontal purple line forming a triangle inscribed in the circle.

Charts 2020-05-29

Unit Circle with Inscribed Triangle

From Can You Join the World’s Biggest Zoom Call? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Bar chart showing total seasonally adjusted continued unemployment insurance claims in the U.S. by week from March 7 to May 16, 2020, peaking at 25 million in the week ending May 9.

Charts 2020-05-29

...but continued claims are finally starting to decline

From Are Jobs Returning In Reopened States? by Neil Paine

Line chart showing average percentage change in Indeed job postings by weeks since reopening, comparing states that lifted stay-at-home orders after different durations.

Charts 2020-05-29

States that waited to reopen are seeing more job posts

From Are Jobs Returning In Reopened States? by Neil Paine

Bar chart showing total seasonally adjusted initial unemployment insurance claims filed in the U.S. by week from March 14 to May 23, 2020, peaking around late March.

Charts 2020-05-29

Unemployment claims are still piling up...

From Are Jobs Returning In Reopened States? by Neil Paine