Once upon a time there was a newsletter called How To Read This Chart. Then it went away, only to be replaced by a newsletter called How To Read This Chart. Then that went away, and has stayed gone. Or, I suppose, had stayed gone. Because I am bringing it
I will not be in the habit of sharing my new newsletter from my old one because, as any person possessing a passing familiarity with modern culture will understand, doing so risks the sort of utter annihilation otherwise seen in the collision of matter and anti-matter. It's
I was sitting on set at MS NOW yesterday evening as I was introduced — Philip Bump, MS NOW contributor and author of "How To Read This Chart" — and I realized, oh, crud, I probably should have anticipated that. If you are one of the people who saw me
I can imagine what you’re thinking: Is it 10 a.m. on Saturday already? Is this yet another week when you’ve endured several days of amnesic catatonia? Happily for you, it is not. It is Wednesday, which is in fact not when you usually receive this newsletter. But
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 I could perfectly tailor content to themes every single
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 begin with a map of Montreal. Chapter 1 What what we sound like looks like There was a
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 and suddenly find myself trying to dissect the strings
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 time to call out a terrible chart from Fox News, so stick
It's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to launch a war against a foreign country. Not much to do but throw
Some of you may have noticed that last week's newsletter ended with a bit of housekeeping: I wasn't planning on doing a newsletter this week, since I'm on a trip with my family. I was still rummaging around on the internet of course, bookmarking
Today, Feb. 14, commemorates the day St. Valentine drove the incels from Italy or something. It is to love what Oct. 31 is to fear, which makes it a bit nicer in theory but – in practice? Turns out earning candy by dressing up as something dead is more fun than
It has been quite a week in quite a month in quite a year in quite a decade, has it not? A lot of things have gone sideways, often driven into ditches by distracted drivers. Happily for us, some interesting data visualizations have emerged as a result. Chapter 1 The