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Are we back yet?
In 2020, our everyday routines shifted dramatically, but over the past few years, it’s felt like things are getting back to where they were. Are we back? Or did our baselines move so low that any tick...
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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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Existing mortgages with lower rates than new ones
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing mortgages against current rates for new loans. A stacked area chart shows the large share of existing rates that are...
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Shifting to batteries for electricity
To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in popularity over the last few years, especially in California. For the New York Times, Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich show the...
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Trendy baby name sounds
For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura Wattenberg. But instead of zeroing in on trends for full names, they looked at the letters that names end with. Then a funny...
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Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants come from other places, of course. Using immigration records from the past decade, the Washington Post provides a breakdown with...
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Renting vs. Owning a Home as We Get Older
One-third of households are rented and the other two-thirds are owned or in the process. This is based on 2022 data from the American Community Survey. However, the difference between renting and...
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✚ Make the Chart: Grid Map with Stacked Areas
In this new tutorial series, Make the Chart, you’ll walk through the steps to remake a specific visualization that I made from start to finish: data, analysis, code, and editing. Download the data and...
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Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Adoption in the States
About 4% of registered light-duty vehicles in the United States are either electric, hybrid electric, or plug-in hybrid, as of 2023. That’s more than double than in 2016. However, electric adoption...
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When to expect results from each state, based on previous elections
Some states count quickly, whereas others can take days. For NYT, Alicia Parlapiano and Lazaro Gamio show how long it took states to call elections in 2020 and 2022 for an idea of what to expect...
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