Some stuff from this week’s newsletter. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-...

In this week's newsletter, I answer some questions: - Where do losing presidential candidates' votes come from? - Do Senate primaries predict the general? - Who worked for DOGE? - Does history forecast an inflation surge? And more! All for free. Right here: www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-...

A quick thread with some of the goodies in this week's newsletter. www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

This week's newsletter centered on a visualization of the nearly 400 nested LLCs in which President Trump claims an ownership stake. It's … complicated. www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

Really looking forward to those noon sunrises.

Inspired by ProPublica’s new database, I created a visualization of the nearly 400 LLCs that make up Trump’s business empire. That and more in this week’s newsletter. Read! Free! www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

What you missed if you missed this week's newsletter: A brief thread.

Went ahead and made a chart showing how much effort Bush put into making the case for war against Iraq in his 2003 SOTU compared to the effort Trump put into doing so for Iran this week. Read more: www.howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-mad...

The newsletter is out, with a special last-minute update on Iran polling. www.howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-mad...

A quick thread with some of the good stuff from this week's newsletter! www.howtoreadthisch.art/may-your-lov...

A chart from this week’s newsletter: Guess who’s footing the bill for the tariffs! www.howtoreadthisch.art/may-your-lov...

The newsletter is out! It’s about love and also the opposite of love as it pertains to politics. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/3f9d0766?m...

A thread of what was in this week's (free!) newsletter. Buckle up. www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

In this week's newsletter, I visualized The Washington Post's 2024 losses as stacks of $100 bills, each stack containing $10 million. An anonymous 5'7" gentleman is shown for the sake of comparison. 1/3 www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

“this is still the equivalent of someone with a net worth of $500,000 finding themselves with a $240 credit-card charge”

Lots of good stuff in this week's newsletter! A quick thread: www.howtoreadthisch.art/whaddaya-mea...

This week’s newsletter is out! Where people moved, how many own homes — and how fast they should be driving to get there. That and more! www.howtoreadthisch.art/whaddaya-mea...

A quick thread with the goodies in this week's newsletter.

How the House voted on DHS funding this week. Interactive version: www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-robots-h...

This week’s newsletter is out! Here’s the path my family tree took from Edward Boumpass, born in 1603, to my kids. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-robots-h...

Here's what was in this week's (always free and unpaywalled) newsletter. www.howtoreadthisch.art/americas-myr... 1. A look at how education, politics, income and race overlap with measles vaccination rates.

I'd missed that an interview I did with the great @walthickey.bsky.social came out a while ago. Here's some behind-the-scenes about the newsletter and where The Post drew red lines on what I could put in it. www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

I made a chart.

Wow. Really good story about how to look critically at visual media. Worth your time. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In the newsletter this week: how to level up your skills in finding the information buried in publicly available data — like eyewitness videos and photos. www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-th...

The newsletter this week looks at how often police cited vehicles as threats in firearm deaths of citizens: 444 times from 2015 to 2024. www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-th...

How Bellingcat is training people to take a critical eye to photos and videos, finding information buried beneath the surface. This week's newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-th...

Be like Chris Hayes.

The newsletter this week was chock-full of good stuff. A brief thread of what was included. www.howtoreadthisch.art/post-holiday... 1. The news America searched for and heard about — and how it differed by party.

From this week's newsletter: A timeline of the people and events mentioned in "We Didn't Start the Fire" — the boomeriest song of all time. www.howtoreadthisch.art/post-holiday...

Donald Trump, who disparaged Obama’s golf-playing and who said he’d be too busy to play himself, has surpassed Obama’s eight-year total in less than five years and is on pace to play twice as often — once every five days on average. www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...

This week’s newsletter: A thread. 1. Stephen Miller’s effort to use partisanship to disparage immigrants and the left is as inaccurate as it is gross. Well, actually, it’s far more gross, but it’s also very inaccurate. www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...

The newsletter is out! Immigration, holidays, the UN and more! www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...

A thread of what was in this week's newsletter. The theme: ❄️ SNOW ❄️ www.howtoreadthisch.art/theres-no-vi... 1/6. When snow has first arrived in the U.S., over the decades.

The newsletter is out! This week: SNOW. www.howtoreadthisch.art/theres-no-vi...

This week's newsletter came out on Saturday morning. Here's what you can find within it, all for free! 1. What happens if you roll two 20-sided dice 10,000 times? 1/6 www.howtoreadthisch.art/thanks-visua...

The newsletter is out! Planes, trains and automobiles, except the trains and automobiles. www.howtoreadthisch.art/thanks-visua...

A quick thread on everything covered in this week's newsletter. First, a look at how Tracklib illustrates the use of samples in pop music. 1/5 www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

Not only are generations fake, they’re also something we basically invented a few decades ago. Compare when generations occurred (shaded areas) with when we settled on their names. From this week’s newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

The change in ICE detentions over the past year. From the newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/f48ddd93?m...

The newsletter is out! This week, we talked to the genius at Tracklib who makes videos showing how music samples are identified and remixed in songs. He shared a draft version of their video for "One More Time" by Daft Punk. www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

In this week’s newsletter, spoke with Yale University’s William Rankin about his new book on rethinking how we draw maps. www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy? 1/8 www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

The newsletter is out. This week: - Reconsidering how we use maps to visualize data - How a mapmaker makes maps - What maps can tell us about borders and culture - Using maps to visualize inequality So, it's about 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬 in other words. www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

Here's how the Senate shutdown vote broke down by state vote in 2024 and senator ideology. The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.

This week, in the free-to-read newsletter: 1. The history of red and blue in TV campaign coverage. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...

In this week’s newsletter: How red and blue came to represent Republicans and Democrats. And more! www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...

Doing some math with the White House.

Here's how every county in Virginia has voted in gubernatorial and presidential elections since 2012. www.pbump.net/o/what-chang...