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howtoreadthisch.artVisualizations of our conversationsThis week I bestow upon you, through an abundance of my well-established generosity, a series of maps offering different perspectives on the American experience. As you would therefore expect, we will...

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howtoreadthisch.artWhere journeys endThere's a bit of a theme this week: migration and movement. It's not a perfect fit with everything that follows, but I don't know what you expect from a weekly newsletter about data visualization. If ...

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5. And, as always, Chart Attack: random visualizations from random places.

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3. How baseball teams' seasons will go depending on how their first 20 games do.

4. Government employees don't trust their leaders.

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1. What my watch recorded when I walked 9 miles through Manhattan.

2. The plunge in new immigration between 2024 and 2025.

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pbump.netA review of 2,871 Opening Days — and the seasons that followedA look at what Opening Day means for the other 161 games of the season.

Baseball teams that win on Opening Day go on to win 52 percent of their games that season on average. Teams that lose on Opening Day go on to win 49 percent of their games. www.pbump.net/o/opening-day/

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5. And, of course, the newsletter concludes with the cornucopia of visualizations that is Chart Attack.

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3. Where those who've died in ICE custody came from.

4. For a lot of the country, Canada isn't necessarily north and Mexico isn't necessarily south.

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1. Mapping what languages are spoken in cities.

2. How well do Americans know their governors and members of Congress?

21 Mar

A language map of Montreal by @jamaps.bsky.social which inspired a language map of NYC by me. These and much more in this week's (free) newsletter. www.howtoreadthisch.art/visualizatio...

howtoreadthisch.artThe answers to five questionsI've been at this a while, gang, this business of looking at the world around me and wondering what patterns hold it together. It's the seventh-grade-biology-class version of The Matrix; I see a thing...

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6. And, of course, the newsletter ended with Chart Attack, various things culled from the wilds of the internet.

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4. The overlap of Muskworld and the DOGE bros.

5. What we can learn from historic inflation patterns (not much).

2. Two-party vote margins in Senate primaries are not predictive of the general.

3. How incomes have shifted in the U.S. since the 1990s.

1. Losing presidential candidates almost always get more votes in states they lost.

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15 Mar

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14 Mar

In this week's newsletter, I answer some questions: - Where do losing presidential candidates' votes come from? - Do Senate primaries predict the general? - Who worked for DOGE? - Does history forecast an inflation surge? And more! All for free. Right here: www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-...

howtoreadthisch.artWhere Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries)This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...

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5. And, of course, the potpourri that is Chart Attack.

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3. Data visualization, taken to its extreme.

4. Fixing a lousy Fox News chart.

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1. Visualizing the hundreds of businesses that flow into Donald Trump's wallet.

2. Revisiting a 1939 New York Times article that noticed how winters were getting warmer.

9 Mar

This week's newsletter centered on a visualization of the nearly 400 nested LLCs in which President Trump claims an ownership stake. It's … complicated. www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

8 Mar

Really looking forward to those noon sunrises.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”@pixelatedboat.bsky.social

To avoid all the confusion of the daylight savings changeover, we should simply arrange it so the sun sets at 9pm every day and work backward from that to what time the rest of the day is

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7 Mar

Inspired by ProPublica’s new database, I created a visualization of the nearly 400 LLCs that make up Trump’s business empire. That and more in this week’s newsletter. Read! Free! www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

howtoreadthisch.artThis way madness lies, but you knew thatIt's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to l...

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6. And, as always, the potpourri that is Chart Attack.

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4. A look at when Supreme Court justices got over their shyness enough to cross the street.

5. When Americans started to sour on Israel.

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2. Some visualizations of the Epstein data dump.

3. The relationship between race and age in America over time.

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1. A quick-and-dirty look at the start of the Iran conflict and Trump's non-effort to sell the public on it.

28 Feb

Went ahead and made a chart showing how much effort Bush put into making the case for war against Iraq in his 2003 SOTU compared to the effort Trump put into doing so for Iran this week. Read more: www.howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-mad...