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Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings from January 23 to July 1, 2021, with approve at 52.1% and disapprove at 42.2% on Day 163.

Charts 2021-07-02

Presidential Approval Ratings Through Day 163

From It’s A ‘Shot Girl Summer.’ But America Is Still Not Fully Back To Normal. by Kaleigh Rogers

Dot plot showing estimated ideologies of Supreme Court justices in the October 2020 term on a liberal-to-conservative scale, with Kavanaugh identified as the likely median justice.

Charts 2021-07-02

Kavanaugh was likely the median justice

From The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Is Just Beginning To Flex Its Muscles by Laura Bronner, Elena Mejia

Heatmap matrix showing the share of cases where pairs of Supreme Court justices agreed with each other in the October 2020 term, highlighting that Roberts and Kavanaugh agreed 94% of the time.

Charts 2021-07-02

Roberts and Kavanaugh agreed on nearly every case

From The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Is Just Beginning To Flex Its Muscles by Laura Bronner, Elena Mejia

Dot plot showing average point margin for NBA teams' regular-season home games from 2014-15 to 2020-21, with 2020-21 broken out by games with fans vs. no fans.

Charts 2021-07-06

Fans in the stands make all the difference

From After This Weird NBA Season, We Have A Better Idea Of How Much Fans Matter by Scott Ganz

Line chart showing shot-stopping rates (expected goals over actual goals) by shots on target for MLS goalkeepers since 2013, with Matt Turner highlighted as the top performer.

Charts 2021-07-09

Matt Turner is stopping shots like no other

From The Most Valuable Soccer Player In America Is A Goalkeeper by John Muller

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January to July, with approve at 51.7% and disapprove at 42.1% on Day 170.

Charts 2021-07-09

Presidential Approval Ratings Through Day 170

From Why The Gender Gap May Have Shrunk In The 2020 Election by Geoffrey Skelley

Histogram showing the frequency distribution of maximum scores ranging from approximately 225 to 250.

Charts 2021-07-09

Frequency Distribution of Maximum Score

From Can You Solve This Astronomical Enigma? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Line chart showing RAPTOR wins above replacement per 82 games for a team's primary point guard before and after hiring a point guard coach vs. non-point guard coach, 2000-21

Charts 2021-07-09

Ex-point guard coaches don't develop better point guards

From Does A Star Point Guard Really Need A Former Point Guard As His Coach? by Jared Dubin

Bar chart showing U.S. women's Olympic swimming medal counts compared to top-three finishing countries from 1956 to 2016, with U.S. bars in blue and others in gray.

Charts 2021-07-13

U.S. women usually rack up the most swimming medals

From Can The U.S. Women’s Swim Team Make A Gold Medal Sweep? by Josh Planos

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings from January 23 to July 15, with approve at 51.1% and disapprove at 42.6% on Day 177.

Charts 2021-07-16

Presidential Approval Ratings Through Day 177

From How Long Can Texas Democrats Hold Out? by Alex Samuels

A 20x20 grid table with red and white cells containing numbers, with one green-highlighted cell showing 153 at row 17, column 19.

Tables 2021-07-16

20x20 Numerical Grid Table with Red/White Pattern

From Can You Win The Penalty Shootout? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Line chart showing the area of a triangle formed by planet positions over time, with values oscillating between near 0 and about 20.

Charts 2021-07-16

Area of triangle formed by planet positions

From Can You Win The Penalty Shootout? by Zach Wissner-Gross

Line chart showing the number of U.S. House districts by partisan lean from 1996 to 2020, with lines for strongly Republican, strongly Democratic, and swing districts.

Charts 2021-07-19

Not so many House districts are competitive anymore

From Changing How Primaries Work Probably Won’t Make Politics Less Divisive by Geoffrey Skelley

Timeline chart showing which sports disciplines were contested at the Olympic Games from 1896 to 2020, with summer games in orange and winter games in blue.

Charts 2021-07-22

The games played through the years: Olympic disciplines 1896-2020

From Every Olympic ‘Sport,’ In One Chart by Jasmine Mithani

Horizontal bar chart showing the timeline of Olympic disciplines contested from 1896 to 2020, color-coded by Summer and Winter seasons.

Charts 2021-07-22

The games through the years: Olympic disciplines 1896–2020

From Every Olympic ‘Sport,’ In One Chart by Jasmine Mithani

Horizontal stacked bar chart showing U.S. adult interest in watching Summer Olympics sports ahead of Tokyo Games, with gymnastics and swimming topping the list.

Charts 2021-07-23

Gymnastics, Swimming Top List of Most Popular Summer Olympics Events Ahead of Tokyo Games

From How The World Feels About Holding The Tokyo Olympics Amid COVID-19 by Nathaniel Rakich

Stacked horizontal bar chart showing interest levels in the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics across 28 countries, with four categories from very interested to not at all interested.

Charts 2021-07-23

How interested are you in the 2021 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan?

From How The World Feels About Holding The Tokyo Olympics Amid COVID-19 by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings from January 23 to July 22, 2021, with approve at 52.2% and disapprove at 42.8% on Day 184.

Charts 2021-07-23

Presidential Approval Ratings Through Day 184

From How The World Feels About Holding The Tokyo Olympics Amid COVID-19 by Nathaniel Rakich

Horizontal stacked bar chart showing percentage of adults in 28 countries who agree or disagree that the 2021 Olympics should go ahead even if the COVID pandemic isn't over.

Charts 2021-07-23

The Olympics Should Go Ahead in 2021, Even if COVID Isn't Over

From How The World Feels About Holding The Tokyo Olympics Amid COVID-19 by Nathaniel Rakich

Bar chart showing percent change in arrests in America's largest cities from 2013 to 2019 by offense type, highlighting that low-level offenses saw the largest declines.

Charts 2021-07-26

Big cities have made fewer arrests for low-level offenses

From Cities That Reduced Arrests For Minor Offenses Also Saw Fewer Police Shootings by Samuel Sinyangwe

Horizontal bar chart showing percent change in arrests in America's largest cities from 2013 to 2019 by type of offense, highlighting low-level offenses in teal.

Charts 2021-07-26

Big cities made fewer arrests

From Cities That Reduced Arrests For Minor Offenses Also Saw Fewer Police Shootings by Samuel Sinyangwe

Grouped bar chart comparing percent change in crime, violent crime, murder, and police shootings between US cities that decreased vs. increased low-level arrests from 2013 to 2019.

Charts 2021-07-26

Cities that made fewer low-level arrests did not experience a bigger uptick in crime

From Cities That Reduced Arrests For Minor Offenses Also Saw Fewer Police Shootings by Samuel Sinyangwe

Horizontal bar chart showing percent change in low-level arrests from 2013 to 2019 in America's largest cities, shaded by whether police shootings increased or decreased.

Charts 2021-07-26

Fewer arrests, fewer shootings

From Cities That Reduced Arrests For Minor Offenses Also Saw Fewer Police Shootings by Samuel Sinyangwe

Bar chart showing percent change in reported crimes and police shootings in cities that reduced low-level arrests by 50% or more vs cities that increased arrests, 2013-2019

Charts 2021-07-26

Fewer arrests, not more crime

From Cities That Reduced Arrests For Minor Offenses Also Saw Fewer Police Shootings by Samuel Sinyangwe

Bar chart showing percent change in low-level arrests in America's largest cities from 2013 to 2019, color-coded by whether police shootings increased or decreased in each city.

Charts 2021-07-26

Most big cities reduced low-level arrests — and police shootings

From Cities That Reduced Arrests For Minor Offenses Also Saw Fewer Police Shootings by Samuel Sinyangwe

Line chart showing the average age of women's Olympic gymnastics teams from Romania, USSR, and USA declining from 1952 to 1992.

Charts 2021-07-27

American gymnasts got younger fast

From Time For The End Of The Teen Gymnast by Dvora Meyers

Line chart showing presidential approval and disapproval ratings over time from January to July, with approve at 51.4% and disapprove at 43.3% on Day 191.

Charts 2021-07-30

Presidential Approval Ratings Through Day 191

From Partisanship Isn’t The Only Reason Why So Many Americans Remain Unvaccinated by Geoffrey Skelley

Four scatter plots showing network graphs of climbing route holds connected by yellow lines, each labeled with number of holds and starts.

Charts 2021-07-30

Climbing Route Network Graphs: Holds and Starts Comparisons

From Will Riddler Nation Win Gold In Archery? by Zach Wissner-Gross