As you get older, it might start to feel like everyone is getting younger around you. At what point are you older than the majority? Read More

Vivek Rao likes to play Sudoku, enough that he collected data on his gameplay and analyzed his strategies: In January 2023, I made a breakthrough. I started tracking what grids I fill out and how I fill them out1. And in the weeks after, I started to analyze my performance to look for patterns and ways I could speed up. As a throwback to my high school...

Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe. You choose where you want to go but don’t control the outcome: [I]n any given game of Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe you can do everything right and still lose (or do everything wrong and win.) However, the better player always rises to the top over time. These are...

Visualization tends towards familiarity and convenience, which is useful for getting things done and reading data quickly. But the familiar is also less fun and can be stifling. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and guides.

Job types changed over the years, because there were these things called computers that created occupations and shifted others. How did income change for different jobs, relative to everyone else? Use this chart to see how occupations ranked over the decades. Read More

I talked to Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic about my early motivations, FD origins, the new book, how I work, and data things. Listen to the episode here. Cole, who runs storytelling with data, came around not long after FD. Although she has a team now, I count Cole as one of the few long-term, independent visualization folks. It was fun to finally get to...