Framing social class with sample selection

Venn diagrams to help people think about for screening subjects for social class status.

COVID-19 graphs, with data and code

The figures I have so far.

Do rich people like bad data tweets about poor people? (Bins, slopes, and graphs edition)

How a Brad Wilcox tweet taught me nothing at all, but inspired me to write this post.

Visualizing family modernization, 1900-2016

After this post about small multiple graphs, and partly inspired by two news reports I was interviewed for -- this Salt Lake Tribune story about teen marriage, and this New York Times report mapping age at first birth -- I made some historical data figures. These visualizations use decennial census data from 1900 to 1990,…

African American marital status by age, Du Bois replication edition

Updating a 1900 chart from W. E. B. Du Bois and his students.

Marriage and gender inequality in 124 countries

More marriage, more gender inequality.

Visualizing attitude differences

Race versus gender attitudes, visualized a little.

NYT magazine infographic: not just dumb and annoying

But if they cared about communicating the data they probably would have used real data in the first place.

Why I called it The Family, and what that has to do with Cosby

First, a note on language In American English books from 1910 to 1950, about 25% of the uses of "family" were preceded by "the." Starting about 1950, however, "the family" started falling out of fashion, finally dropping below 16% of "family" uses in the mid-2000s. This trend coincides with the modern rise of family diversity. In her classic…

Ridiculous NY Times Magazine data graphics

Nihilist graphics that waste time and space, and distract from real information.