In a follow-up to the 2020 project, Moritz Stefaner and Google Trends show geographic and temporal search patterns for this election year in Waves of Interest. This site presents Google Trends data on a curated set of political topics, comprising the currently most searched political concepts in the United States, topics from Pew Research Center’s...

In their ongoing series on fentanyl in the United States, Reuters illustrates the journey of fentanyl precursors hidden among billions of everyday shipments. The volume of boxes, despite various layers of security, makes it impossible to intercept all illicit materials. There are charts blended with the illustrations that you might miss if you’re just...

Chenxiao Guo, a PhD candidate in geography who goes by the name Atlas, made a quick comparison between satellite images to highlight places without power due to Hurricane Helene. Blue shows the path. Tags: Atlas Guo, hurricane, outage, power

Hey, it’s Nathan. This is The Process, the weekly newsletter for FlowingData members. Part thoughts on working with data and part guidance on making better charts. As election day in the United States draws closer, the probabilities, odds, and forecasts are in full swing, which gives us a chance to check the ways in which we currently communicate the...

Mira Rojanasakul and Nadja Popovich, for The New York Times, mapped migration out of cities between 2020 and 2023. The dot density maps show where more people moved out than in as orange dots and the opposite in green. For many, this has meant more space and lower cost of living in exchange for moving closer to areas with higher natural disaster risk....

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 the most common. Cashiers. Drivers. Teachers. It gets more interesting the further down the list you go, breaking it down by demographic. You get a more...