Data explorations.

As we approach the mid-terms, see how sixty indicators of household stress are hitting all 50 states and DC, spanning hiring and unemployment claims, housing, wages, rents, utility bills and credit. Compare trends from before the pandemic in 2019, or 2022, when inflation, job postings and housing demand peaked.

In the middle of August, water in the Eastern Pacific is already at temperature anomalies only ever seen at the December peak of the strongest El Niño on record. I wanted to offer some perspective on just how crazy this is.

The skills employers ask for have never been more human. Graduates are less ready to prove they have them. As organizations hire fewer new grads and flatten management layers, they are missing the chance to close the durable skill gaps in their people.

Where do Americans stay put? This week I saw a state-level map showing the share of residents born in their home state. But intra-state differences are way more interesting, so I mapped the data for all 3,142 counties.

A quarter-million time diaries trace how Americans increasingly spend more time at home, on screens, and away from other people as technology and the Covid pandemic reshaped society.

New York City is a political Rorschach test we use to project our feelings about crime and urban living. But what do fifty years of data and national comparisons say?

Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. His obsession with nature produced a 50 year record of the weather as he experienced it. Explore his records from Charlottesville to France.

Tracing the work Americans do over the last 150 years through census microdata and fifty years of monthly labor statistics.

After six years of recovery, have we settled into a permanent "new normal"?

Hotter nights and more rain define the long term trends from DC to Boston.

The complete game has gone from a normal thing for starting pitchers to a near-extinct event.