What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on. 4 stacked bar charts. showing in short that while heart diseases and cancer constitutes 55% of the causes of death, they receive about 7% of the media coverages. Homicide is under 1% but receives between 42% and 52%. Terrorisme barely registers in the causes of death, but gets between 11% and 18%. The first stacked bar is causes of death in the US in 2023 Heart diseases 29% Cancer 26% Accidents 9.5% Stroke 6.9% Lower respiratory diseases (6.2%) Alzheimer's disease (4.8%) Diabetes (4.0%) Kidney failure (2.4%) Liver disease (2.2%) Suicide (2.1%) COVID-19 (2.1%) Influenza/Pneumonia (1.9%) Drug overdose (1.8%) Homicide (<1%) Terrorism (<0.001%) Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in... New York Times Heart disease (2.8%) Cancer (4.1%) Accidents (9.7%) Suicide (3.8%) COVID-19 (5.3%) Drug overdose (7.5%) Homicide (42%) Terrorism (18%) Washington Post Heart disease (2.9%) Cancer (4.7%) Accidents (5.9%) Suicide (3.3%) COVID-19 (7.9%) Drug overdose (9.5%) Homicide (46%) Terrorism (12%) Fox News Heart disease (2.3%) Cancer (3.8%) Accidents (6.1%) Suicide (4.1%) COVID-19 (6.0%) Drug overdose (9.8%) Homicide (52%) Terrorism (11%) Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US. A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e.g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "flu") least twice. Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025); deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index. Fox News

This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊

Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.

So it turns out posting to social media is a PIA. But I'll get there. This piece is captioned: Still fun, 30 years later. #MyMatrescenceProject #Histogram #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

Calvin: I'M FILLING OUT A READER SURVEY FOR CHEWING MAGAZINE. SEE, THEY ASKED HOW MUCH MONEY I SPEND ON GUM EACH WEEK, SO I WROTE, '500.' FOR MY AGE, I PUT 43; AND WHEN THEY ASKED WHAT MY AVORITE FLAVOR IS, I WROTE GARLIC/ CURRY. Hobbes: THIS MAGAZINE SHOULD HAVE SOME AMUSING ADS SOON Calvin: I LOVE MESSING WITH DATA.

There’s a Calvin in every dataset.

"In Experiment 1 we found that Jitter Plots reduced personal attribution (i.e. blame) by 7.0 points, relative to Bar Charts (p=0.0011)." @elibryan.bsky.social 3iap.com/dispersion-d...

I have to sing it, even in my head. #MyMatrescenceProject #Histogram #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

Cosleeping saved us, but gosh it's chilly. #MyMatrescenceProject #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

I did/am doing a thing and then wrote about the doing!

I really appreciate an alternative presentation but that's no excuse for sloppy work 🧣🧶

Screenshot of google image search results for "Ingela P. Arrhenius cat", showing two almost identical children's book covers with an illustration of a cat. One book is titled "Where's the cat?" and the other is titled "Where's Mrs Cat?"

I love it! It brings to mind Ingela Arrhenius' animal lift the flap books, which were originally non-gendered but are inexplicably released in some markets (*cough*Australia*cough*) with gendered honorifics.

I love this so much. Unsurprisingly kangaroo trends she/her. I'd love to see an Australian version of this dataset...

I think it's useful! I am doing a lot of work generating word document survey analysis summaries using quarto which has been a real headache. Being able to look at other approaches is really helpful!

My most extreme act of nesting behaviour. #MyMatrescenceProject #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

There's some things you just shouldn't say to people you don't know (or at all, honestly). #MyMatrescenceProject #Pictogram #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

It's #ShowYourStripes day. Despite the freezing cold the last week or so, this has felt like a very warm dry winter and that's not a trend that brings me joy. #DataViz

I'd never washed literally every towel in the house in one day before. #MyMatrescenceProject #BarChart #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

A simplification, but a useful one. #MyMatrescenceProject #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

We’re thrilled to unveil the winners of the 2024 #IIBAwards! These works stand out not just for their mastery of #dataviz and storytelling, but for their impact and innovation. See the winners: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...

Thanks for a great presentation :) it made my day to get to watch something super relevant to what I'm working on at the moment during my standard working hours (unheard of!)

Too precious to waste. #MyMatrescenceProject #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

There's no words for how deep this fear runs. #MyMatrescenceProject #SparkLine #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

We're two for two on purple projectile vomit at midnight. #MyMatrescenceProject #PieChart #SmallMultiples #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

There would be a pop of the highlight for each language and would draw more attention to languages with most bfrequent letters that aren't E (or would be a wall of bright green Es 😅)

I like the experiment and the colour version more but maybe the colours could use some tweaking? It looks like the colours are an encoding of frequency across the entire dataset - maybe if the scale was frequency across the individual language the colour would add more to the visualisation?

A good night's sleep really does change everything. #MyMatrescenceProject #DivergentBarChart #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

It was a super pleasant surprise to stumble on this the other night while hashtag surfing and get to read a whole set of Australian themed visualisations ❤️

I used to love getting in the car with a playlist and snacks. #MyMatrescenceProject #DivergentBarChart #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

I guess you could call this a set of interdependent variables. #MyMatrescenceProject #PostpartumMentalHealth #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

It's a cliché for a reason. #MyMatrescenceProject #Love #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism