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For the Pudding, Russell Samora, with design and illustration by Shelly Tan, analyzed the words used in similes across popular fiction. Instead of just stopping at the obvious word counts, they get ...

World Bank, which releases an atlas every few years, published an Atlas of Global Development for 2026. Across the global development landscape, which countries are moving the fastest, and which ar ...

The Eurovision Song Contest is in its 70th year. Every year, each country submits an original song and performers vie for the top spot. Giuseppe Sollazzo plotted 1,795 songs from the past 70 years ...

Denice W. Ross and Christopher Steven Marcum, from the University of California at Berkeley, produced a field guide for federal data. The purpose of this guide is to provide a more complete context ...

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill and Leslie Shapiro visualized users who won and lost money on Polymarket. The odds aren't great. A lot of users aren't that good at predicting ...

This week, we refresh an old chart with new data, interaction, and improved design.

Science profiled Hany Farid, a researcher in digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley. An interesting guide in the middle shows how simple geometry can expose a fake image. For e ...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published cost estimates for April 2026. If you've bought anything over the past month, you've likely noticed a rise. For the Washington Post, Rachel ...

The percentage of U.S. men in the workforce has been declining for decades, with a sharper shift the past few years. For the Washington Post, Lauren Kaori Gurley and Federica Cocco report. "It's no ...

Raymond Zhong and Harry Stevens, for the New York Times, go with a sketch aesthetic to describe the effects of El Niño. Some areas are wetter and others are drier. Although it's still difficu ...