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A weekly newsletter about data, data visualizations and the aggregated weirdness of the world around us. A pbump.com project. https://howtoreadthisch.art

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This way madness lies, but you knew that 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 l...

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6. And, as always, the potpourri that is Chart Attack.

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5. When Americans started to sour on Israel.

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4. A look at when Supreme Court justices got over their shyness enough to cross the street.

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3. The relationship between race and age in America over time.

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2. Some visualizations of the Epstein data dump.

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1. A quick-and-dirty look at the start of the Iran conflict and Trump's non-effort to sell the public on it.

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This way madness lies, but you knew that 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 l...

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

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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...

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This way madness lies, but you knew that 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 l...

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

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May your love be plotted logarithmically 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 ea...

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6. And Chart Attack, including this one that I made.

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5. A visual look at analyses of the impact of tariffs.

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4. Another reason Gallup might have given up on approval polling: approval polls don't really move much anymore.

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3. More Americans think Trump's doing worse than Biden than vice versa.

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2. The world leaders Americans respect. (The one with bipartisan agreement? King Charles III.)

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1. A breakdown of Americans' relationships. (Independents remain true to their name.)

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May your love be plotted logarithmically 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 ea...

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

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A chart from this week’s newsletter: Guess who’s footing the bill for the tariffs!
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May your love be plotted logarithmically 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 ea...

The newsletter is out! It’s about love and also the opposite of love as it pertains to politics.

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Let's consider some disasters. 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 inter...

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7. And, of course, Chart Attack had lots of other charts, like this beauty.

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6. I found out about a jokes-and-charts book published by the New Yorker just under a century ago.

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5. I fixed a White House chart.

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4. Democrats are less trusted to handle key policy issues in part because Democrats are less trusting of their own party than are Republicans.

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3. A look at PowerOutage.us, which does exactly what you'd think.

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2. How the density of fire departments compares to population.

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1. I looked at how much The Post was losing relative to Jeff Bezos's net worth.

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Let's consider some disasters. 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 inter...

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

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And, for good measure, how much that net worth increased, on average, each day he's owned The Post.
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