U.S. Broadband Internet Speed
How the U.S. compares with other countries in average broadband download speed, via the Google Public Data explorer:
View ArticleA Rough Year for AMR
American Airlines’ parent company, AMR Corp., announced today that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. AOL DailyFinance summed up the effect on investors: AMR’s investors got a nasty...
View ArticleCharting Days Members of Congress Spend in ‘Session’
Time is winding down on another year of congressional business. How much time have representatives and senators worked this year compared to the past? Senators, on average, were in session about 155...
View ArticleCharting Recessions and Recoveries
Amanda Cox from The New York Times charted the current downturn compared with history: Horizontal axis shows months. Vertical axis shows the ratio of that month’s nonfarm payrolls to the nonfarm...
View ArticleVisualizing Gas Prices by State, Income and Time
Gas prices risen for the eighth straight day, part of a trend that’s driven the cost up 17% this year, according to AAA data reported by CNN Money: The national average price for a gallon of gasoline...
View ArticleU.S. Breastfeeding Rates By Duration, Race/Ethnicity Over Time
Early this month, the Centers for Disease Control released a study analyzing breastfeeding in America, noting that the percentage of babies who were breastfed increased by four points from 2000 to...
View ArticleCharting NFL Injuries
The Washington Post has a fascinating story today about NFL players and injuries, with the local peg being Robert Griffin III’s knee injury. The gist: Interviews with more than 50 doctors, players,...
View ArticleBirthday Heatmap Born Again
Last year on my birthday I created a quick heatmap visualizing birthdays by their rank on the calendar. Despite its flaws, the graphic went viral by The Daily Viz standards, receiving a quarter million...
View ArticleCharting Partisan Polarization in Congress
The Fix today has a post about the newly released digital version of Vital Statistics on Congress, a partnership between between a few think tanks that contains reams of enlightening data about the...
View ArticleA Century Of Global Plane Crashes
Investigators still want to know what caused a civilian airliner to crash Tuesday morning in the French Alps. The incident, which likely killed 144 passengers and six crew members aboard the Airbus...
View ArticleCharting a Sky-High Electricity Bill
What of the biggest surprises about moving to Seoul, South Korea — aside from the impenetrable language and other cultural adjustments — was the pricey cost of electricity. The monthly power bills in...
View ArticleAir Quality in Seoul, China, U.S.
The view from our apartment in Seoul. Some days are better than others. The air quality in Seoul — a mega city home to 70,000 taxis and 10 million residents — can get rough at times, especially for...
View ArticleHow Immigration is Animating the ‘Brexit’ Vote, in Four Charts
Immigration to the United Kingdom has risen sharply in recent years, and it’s fueling the debate about Britain’s looming “Brexit” vote on whether to leave the European Union. Many supporters advocating...
View ArticleCharting New York City’s Changing Borough Population, Over Time
I woke one recent morning at 5 a.m. obsessing about, of all things, the people of New York City — specifically how the population is distributed among the five boroughs: Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan,...
View ArticleSeoul’s Steamy Summer (Updated)
Note: I followed my wife, a foreign correspondent for NPR News, to Seoul last year. This is one of a series of posts exploring our adopted country’s demographics, politics and other nerdy data stuff....
View ArticleCharting NICAR Attendance, Over the Years
Next week is the Investigative Reporters and Editors annual CAR convention — the gathering of news nerds from across the world to discuss the latest and greatest in data journalism. This year NICAR, as...
View ArticleAmerica Imports Lots of Stuff from China, Including Christmas Decorations
Last year, the United States imported more than $460 billion in goods — clothes, toys, gadgets, you name it — from China. Of course, our Christmas decorations were on that list, too. Some $2.2 billion...
View ArticleIt’s Been a Hot Summer, Down Under
My family is vacationing this week in Mosman, Australia, a harbourside Sydney suburb near Balmoral Beach known for its family friendly attractions and boutique shops. This place is a great holiday...
View ArticleHow China’s Economic Retaliation Hurt the South Korean Tourism Industry
I wrote this week about the one-year anniversary of China’s economic retaliation against South Korea over the THAAD missile system, a defensive weapon designed to stop North Korea’s medium-range...
View ArticleChina’s Imbalanced Trade with the United States, in Four Charts
A trade war could be looming between the United States and China, fueled by President Trump’s fixation on the two nations’ unbalanced import-export relationship. The trade imbalance between the two...
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