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Billion dollar natural disasters
For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area chart and stacked bar chart on the top and bottom to show increased cost of billion dollar disasters and the counts over...
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Jobs with Higher Income and Fewer Hours
About 15% of working Americans make at least $100,000 of income per year as of the 2021 American Community Survey. As you’d expect, many who fall in that 15% spent more years in school and spend more...
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Attitudes towards tipping in the U.S.
Tipping seems to be in a confusing spot right now. On the one hand, customers want to support workers, but on the other, tip suggestions seem to be rising towards uncomfortable rates and in places...
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Young Money
Income tends to increase with age, because more work experience and education tends to lead to higher paying jobs. However, young people can also earn higher incomes. Using data from the most recent...
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Commonness of Races in Different Occupations
Some jobs are worked commonly by people of a certain race or ethnicity more than others. Farm managers are almost all white, postal service processors are half black, manicurists are 65% Asian, and...
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Feeling Rested with Age
How much you sleep each night matters, but more importantly, it’s about the quality and if you feel rested when you wake up. This seems to shift with age as responsibilities and sleep patterns change....
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Sleep Hours and Feeling Rested
As I peel myself out of bed in the morning after again not going to sleep at a civilized hour, blurry-eyed, I wonder what hours others sleep. Certainly, I must be in the majority. According to the...
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Who is Sleeping, by Age and Time
When we’re young, we tend to have fewer responsibilities, which means we can sleep and wake up later. Then work and parenting come along, and our schedules grow more structured. We can see the shift in...
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Where the Time Goes with Age
We get 24 hours in a day. How do we spend this time? How does our time use change as we get older and priorities shift? Here is the percentage breakdown in our teens, 20s, and 30s, through to our 80s....
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College Admission Rates for U.S. Schools Compared
A few years removed from applying to colleges, I wondered what admission rates are like these days. The United States Department of Education had the data. Here are rates for about 1,400 institutions...
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Two kinds of bar charts
Michael Correll describes two kinds of bar charts in the world. The first kind shows counts where you can apply a visual metaphor of stacking things. The more you stack, the higher the bar gets. The...
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Olympic medal tracker variations
As the 2024 Summer Olympics wrap up, medal trackers will fade from homepages for a couple years. You’ve probably seen a list or five by now where each row represents a country and four columns show the...
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Jobs of a Certain Age
There are hundreds of occupations, and while the exact number varies by classification system, most U.S. government organizations list about 500 of them. You can probably guess at least a handful of...
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