Data explorations.
Using data to look at the world around us.
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.
To live and die in NYC.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?
Our Founding Weather Geek.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.
Work in America from the Centennial to 2026.Tracing the work Americans do over the last 150 years through census microdata and fifty years of monthly labor statistics.
NYC subway: The long, slow climb back to normal.After six years of recovery, have we settled into a permanent "new normal"?
How Summer is changing in the Northeast.Hotter nights and more rain define the long term trends from DC to Boston.
The vanishing complete game.The complete game has gone from a normal thing for starting pitchers to a near-extinct event.