Empty Net Goals Have Skyrocketed. Here Are 25 Years of Data
Last NHL season set a record for drama: 326 regular-season games went to overtime,…
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Many Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet. How Many of Them Are Working Multiple Jobs?
Recently, I watched the 2025 movie Good Fortune directed by and starring Aziz Ansari…
Why Republicans Are Coming Around on Social Security Taxes
When it comes to Social Security reform, Democrats have traditionally been against benefit cuts…
I Replicated Two Tableau Dashboards With Claude. Here’s What Broke and What Didn’t.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve run an experiment testing Claude’s ability to…
Visualizing Qualitative Data: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities
Last year, I was asked to write two “Rip Outs” for the Journal of…
Right-Side Y-Axis Labels: Fan or Foe
At the end of the data visualization class I teach at Georgetown University, I…
Social Security TaxMax Reform Explorer
The Social Security Trustees estimate that the OASI program’s trust fund will exhaust in…
The Iran War’s Tax on Your Commute
Since the outbreak the US war with Iran in February, gas prices have climbed…
A Little Mac Tool to Export High-Resolution PNGs from Excel
If you make charts in Excel on a Mac, you’ve probably run into the…