Where journeys end There'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.

4. Government employees don't trust their leaders.

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

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

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

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A review of 2,871 Opening Days — and the seasons that followed A 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/

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

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

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

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

1. Mapping what languages are spoken in cities.

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A language map of Montreal by @jamaps.bsky.social which inspired a language map of NYC by me.
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The answers to five questions I'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.

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

4. The overlap of Muskworld and the DOGE bros.

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

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

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

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- Where do losing presidential candidates' votes come from?
- Do Senate primaries predict the general?
- Who worked for DOGE?
- Does history forecast an inflation surge?
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Where 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.

4. Fixing a lousy Fox News chart.

3. Data visualization, taken to its extreme.