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Graphs by Stat Nugget for ‘What is Going on With This Graph?’

Includes graphs from September 2017 – May 2026.

For each Stat Nugget, there is a definition, followed by where you can see the term in the graph. All of the graphs that use the most common terms, such as quantitative variables, are not listed here.

VARIABLES

Association vs. Causation: Social Connectivity. Obesity. Essay Words. Nutritious Foods. Ride Hailing. Immigrants & Crime. Reopening. Gun Murders. International Vaccination. Football & CTE. Teens & Social Media. Healthy Food..
Categorical & Quantitative Variables: Air Travel. Obesity. Essay Words. Nutritious Foods. Rainfall. Smoking.. Russian Trade. 10-Day Temperature.. Student Opinion.
Clusters, Gaps, & Outliers: Running Shoes.
Discrete vs. Continuous Variables: Grand Slams.
Explanatory & Response Variables: Running Shoes.
Lurking Variables: Running Shoes.
Mutually Exclusive: Education Mobility. Bride’s Married Names.
Variability & Outliers: Guns. Natural Disasters. Baseball. Women Marathoners. Leaders Ages. Growing Zones. Tripledemic. Gulf of Mexico Temperatures.
Variable: Rainfall.

STATISTICS

Anomaly vs. Absolute Value: 2018 Global Temperatures. 2019 Global Temperatures. 2022 Temperatures. 2023 Global Temperatures.
Biased estimator: Spelling Bee..
Benchmark: Winter Climate.
Confidence Interval: Pro College Athletes.
Correlation: Uncrustables.
Constant dollars: Post-Covid Trends.
Linear Relationship: Uncrustables.
Margin of Error (MOE): Teen Problems.. Free Speech. College Online.. Words Used. LGBTQ+..
Median: Supreme Court. College Majors. Vaccine Barriers. Tariffs..
Mean & Average: Baseball. Spring Climate. Winter Climate. Summer Climate. 2018 Global Temperatures. Voter Preferences. 2019 Global Temperatures. Growing Zones. Normal Precipitation.. Covid Hospitalizations.
Percentile: Election Results. College Majors. Hotter City Summers. Tree Rings & Climate. Social Connections. College Admissions. Las Vegas Temperatures. Drought..
Population Parameter vs. Sample Statistic: Spelling Bee..
Quartile: College Majors.
Quintile: Post-Pandemic Jobs.. Immigrants’ Income Mobility.
Range: Hotter Summers.
Rank: Education Mobility.
Rank ordering: Summer Olympic Medals..
Running Total: Tree Rings & Climate.
Seasonally Adjusted: Post-Covid Trends.
Standard Deviation: Summer Climate.
Statistics vs. Data: Social Connectivity. World Migration. Rainfall. Teen Problems.
Line of Best Fit & Trendline: Immigrants & Crime. Women Marathoners. Leaders Ages. Gun Murders.. Serena.
Rolling Average: Post-Covid Trends.
Uncertainty: Hurricanes.
Weighted Average: Women Marathoners.
Weighted Values: Summer Olympic Medals..

DISTRIBUTIONS

Bimodal Distribution: Mother’s Age.
Distribution: Mother’s Age. Integration.. Hotter City Summers. Global Demographics.. Hotter Summers.
Normal Distribution: Mother’s Age. Summer Climate. Integration. Engagement Ring. Hotter City Summers. Hotter Summers.
Skewed Distribution: Mother’s Age. Integration. Engagement Ring. Hotter City Summers. Hotter Summers.

DATA COLLECTION

Bias vs. Statistical Bias: College Essays. Free Speech. Tariffs..
Population/Census vs. Sample: Presidents’ Positions. Engagement Ring. Teen Problems. 2020 Redistricting.. Serena. Pro College Athletes. College Online.. Spelling Bee.. Student Opinion. LGBTQ+..
Cluster Sampling: Teen Behavior.
Experiment: Teen Behavior. Football & CTE..
Forecast: Hurricanes.
Nonresponse bias: College Online.. LGBTQ+..
Observational Studies & Experiments: Running Shoes. Immigrants & Crime. Smoking.. Gun Murders.. Football & CTE.. Teens & Social Media.
Online Survey: Instantly Master.
Population, Subgroups, & Segments: Restaurant Jobs. Retail Jobs. LGBTQ+..
Random Sample: Student Opinion. Texting Parents. LGBTQ+..
Random Selection: Student Opinion. LGBTQ+..
Response Bias: Words Used. Teens & Social Media. Student Opinion. LGBTQ+..
Self-Report Study: Fast-Food Nutrition.
Simulation: : Post-Pandemic Jobs..
Stratified Random Sample: Global Optimism. Olympic Medals.. Global Success Factors.
Weighted Random Sample: Free Speech. Texting Parents. LGBTQ+..
Weighted Representative Sample: Words Used.

GRAPHS

Area Chart: Health Insurance Cost.
Axes Scales: Labor Participation.
Back-to-Back Bar Graph: Fast-Food Nutrition.
Bar Chart: Engagement Ring. Voter Preferences.. Pandemic Sales. Smoking.. Post-Pandemic Jobs.. College Essays. Global Success Factors. Immigrants’ Income Mobility. Life Expectancy.. Social Connections. Spelling Bee.. College Admissions. Bride’s Married Names. Southern Border Migrants. Las Vegas Temperatures. Candidate Career Timelines.. Swing Voters.. Taylor Swift.. College Athletes Earnings. Tariffs.. Technomass.
Bar Graph: DACA Dreamers. Food & Climate. Birds. War Headlines.. Where We Work..
Bar Mekko Chart: Mortality by Race.
Beeswarm Plot: Life Expectancy. Butterfly Populations.
Boxplot: College Majors.
Bubble Chart: Spending Habits. Vaccine First. Senate Representation. LGBTQ+..
Bubble Comparison Chart: Foreign-born workers..
Bubble Dot Plot: Lead Poisoning.
Bubble Line Chart: Peak Population.
Bubble Map: Nuclear Stockpiles. Military Budgets. Essay Words. Covid Count.. Extreme Temperatures.. Global Demographics.. Global Electricity..
Bubble Scatterplot: Reopening. International Vaccination..
Bubble Time Series: Earthquakes..
Bump Chart: Most Watched TV.
Cartogram: 2020 Redistricting..
Choropleth Map: Homeowner’s Insurance. White Christmas?. Chinese Imports. Election Results. Popular Music. US Population. Foreign-Born. Covid Count.. Climate Threats. U.S. Air Pollution. Growing Zones. Normal Precipitation.. Biodiversity.. Climate Politics.. Local News. Hotter Summers. Gulf of Mexico Temperatures. Drought.. Book Ban..
Connected Dot Plot : Covid in Prisons. College Criteria. Shrinkflation. Texting Parents. Swing Voters.. Homebodies.. Vaccinations..
Connected Scatter Plot: Global Life Expectancy.. Gymnast Routine..
Critical Path Diagram: Vaccine.
Data Visualization & Data Viz: Commuter Delays.
Density Plot: Hotter Summers.
Directed Graph: Air Travel. World Migration.
Directional Arrow Graph: Southern Border Migrants.
Data Chart: Education Mobility.
Donut Graph: $5 Trillion Budget..
Dot Plot: Running Shoes. International Comparison.. Where We Work.. Tariffs..
Dumbbell Chart: College Athletes Earnings.
Faceted Bar Chart: Student Screen Time.
Faceted Time Series Chart: W.N.B.A. Compensation. Cost of Penny Production.
Flowchart: Supply Chain.
Grouped Part Chart: Pandemic Time Spent.
Heatmap: Sonic Booms. Olympic Medals.. Summer Olympic Medals..
High-Low Time Series: 10-Day Temperature..
Histogram: Mother’s Age. DACA Dreamers. Summer Climate. Segregation.. Engagement Ring. Hotter City Summers.
Infographic: Chinese Imports. Nonvoters. Sports Injury. Leaders Ages. Instantly Master.. Voting Maps. Ukraine Refugees.. Serena. Immigrants’ Income Mobility. Senate Representation. Uncrustables.
Line Chart & Time Series: Dollar Worth. Grand Slams. Transportation Gas Emissions..
Map as Graph: Social Connectivity. World Migration. Rainfall. Hurricanes. US Population. US Development.. Global Climate Risks.. Wind and Solar.. US Diversity. Asian Americans. Derailment. Global Demographics..
Mosaic Plot: Where We Work..
Normal Curve: Summer Climate.
Overlaid Bar Chart: W.N.B.A. Compensation.
Pareto Chart: Cost to Save a Life.
Part-to-Whole Chart: Biden Budget.
Pictograph: Chinese Imports.
Pictoral Stacked Bar Chart: Summer Blockbusters.
Pie Chart: Student Opinion.
Population Pyramid Graph: Peak Population.
Probability Tree Diagram: Vaccine.
Proportional Area Graph: Big Companies.
Radar Chart & Fingerprint: Pop Music. Vaccine Barriers..
Radial Comparison Graph: Russian Trade.
Sankey diagram: Sources of AI. Colorado River. Southern Border MIgrants.
Segmented Bar Graph: Self-driving Cars. Video Games. Adult Mentors. Music Streaming. Education Mobility. Teen Problems.. Race in Sports.. Thrifty Food Plan. Global Carbon. Global Success Factors. Free Speech. Pro College Athletes.. College Online.. Used Words. Teens & Social Media. Student Opinion. Tariffs. Technomass.
Segmented Pie Chart: Thrifty Food Plan.
Scatter Plot: Baseball. Job Skills. Obesity. Guns. Nutritious Foods. Ride Hailing. Immigrants & Crime. Internet Privacy. Coronavirus.. Women Marathoners. Leaders Ages. Electric Cars. Gun Murders.. Global Optimism. Serena. Spelling Bee.. Las Vegas Temperatures. Uncrustables.
Slope Chart: Pandemic Time Spent.. Global.. Wealthy & Unhappy. Healthy Food..
Smoothed Histogram: Hotter City Summers.
Spaghetti Chart: Dollar Worth.
Stacked Area Time Series Graph: Electricity Sources. Pet Euthanasia. Transportation Gas Emissions.. Foreign-Born. Tree Rings & Climate. Immigrants by Country.. Global Electricity.. Generating Electricity.. Tariffs..
Stacked Bar Chart: Cobalt. Americans Move.
Stacked Time Series Graph: Extreme Temperatures..
Step Graph: Retail Jobs.
Tables: DACA Dreamers.
Tilegram: Sex Education..
Tile Map: 2020 Election.
Tile Grid Map: 2024 State Legislatures.
Timeline: Presidents’ Positions. Inventions & Regulation. Candidate Career Timelines..
Time Series: Dollar Worth. Gas Prices and Approval Ratings. College Yield Rates. Birthrates. Dollar Worth. Commuter Delays. Natural Disasters. Commuter Delays. Labor Participation. 2018 Global Temperatures. Sports Tickets. Birds. Buses. World Air Pollution. Herd Immunity.. Covid Hospitalizations. Pandemic Inflation. Population Dynamics. Teen Behavior. Serena. Life Expectancy.. Tripledemic.. 2022 Temperatures. Human Population. Eggs. Baseball Rules. Global Temperatures.. Electric Cars.. Santa’s Wage. 2023 Global Temperatures. Southern Border Migrants. Las Vegas Temperatures. Gulf of Mexico Temperatures. Swing Voters.. Homebodies.. Foreign-born workers.. Vaccinations.. Tariffs.. Post-Covid Trends..
Time Series Step Graph: Weddings. LeBron James.. Foreign-born workers..
Tree Diagram: Transmission Chain.. Brackets.
Treemap: Global Carbon. $5 Trillion Budget.. Russian Trade. Tariffs..
Unit chart: Where We Work..
Waffle Chart: Source of AI. US Vehicle Turnover..
Voronoi Diagram: Technomass.
Word Cloud: Pandemic Inflation..

MATH

Absolute and Net Change & Percentage Change from a Baseline: Retail Jobs. Restaurant Jobs. Birds. 2019 Global Temperatures. Post-Pandemic Jobs.. Normal Precipitation.. Pandemic Inflation. Americans Move. 2022 Temperatures. Global Temperatures.. Santas Wage.
Absolute Difference & Percentage Difference: College Athletes Earnings.
Actual Value vs. Per Capita Value: Air Travel. Guns. Transportation Gas Emissions.. Covid Count.. Global Life Expectancy.. International Vaccination..
Actual Value vs. Relative Value: Popular Music.
Algorithm: Pop Music.
Arithmetic and Geometric Sequence: College Criteria..
Average: 2022 Temperatures. Baseball Rules.
Baseline: Hotter Summers. Las Vegas Temperatures. Foreign-born workers..
Cube: Technomass.
Cumulative sums/total: Grand Slams. Life Expectancy..
Difference from Average: Climate Politics..
Direct & Inverse Relationship: Ride Hailing. Smoking.. Global Life Expectancy..
Distance vs. Area:
- Length vs. Area of a Square: Big Companies.
- Radius & Area of a Circle: Military Budgets.
Empirical Probability: White Christmas?.
Exponential Growth: Transmission Chain.. Electric Cars..
Factor & Multiples: Covid in Prisons.
Intervals for Graph Scales: World Air Pollution..
Log (logarithmic) Scale: Coronavirus. International Vaccination.. Earthquakes..
Margin: Voters Shift.
Mathematical Model: Spring Climate. Flatten the Curve.. Intervention Impact.. Herd Immunity..
Number vs. Amount: Popular Music.
Number vs. Proportion: Labor Participation.
Number vs. Rate: International Comparison..
Optimization: Ride Hailing.
Ranking Ordering: Wealthy & Unhappy..
Percentage Change & Percentage Point Difference: US Population. Foreign-Born. Reopening. Pandemic Sales. Normal Precipitation.. US Diversity. Homebodies.. Vaccinations..
Percentage Point Difference vs. Percentile Difference: Election Results. Sports Injury. Voters Shift. US Diversity. Teen Behavior. Homebodies..
Rate: Mortality by Race. U.S. Air Pollution. Social Connections.
Sensitivity Analysis: College Loans.
Slope & Rate of Change: E-cigarettes. LeBron James..
Uncertainty: Hurricanes.
Weighted Value: Olympic Medals..
Y = X line: Global Optimism.

OTHER

College Loan terminology
- Loan Amount, Loan Principal, and Debt.
- Interest & Interest Rate.
- Term & Payoff Period.
- Monthly & Total Payment.
- Annual Income.
- Discretionary Income.
Constant dollars: Post-Covid Trends.
Death Rates: Life Expectancy..
Demographics: Global Demographics..
Frequency & Relative Frequency
- Where We Work..
Simple, Joint & Conditional Relative Frequency
- Sex Education..
Friending Rate: Social Connections.
Immunity: Herd Immunity..
Inflation: Shrinkflation.
Life Expectancy: Life Expectancy..
Mass: Technomass.
Market Share: Monopolies.
Median Justice & Martin-Quinn Score: Supreme Court.
Metric: Wealthy & Unhappy..
Price & Price Adjusted for Inflation: Eggs.
Subsidy: Health Insurance Cost.
Ranking Ordering:
Seasonally adjusted: Post-Covid Trends.
Shrinkflation: Shrinkflation.
Tariffs: Tariffs..
Tournament Bracket: Brackets.
Year-To-Year: Spending Habits. Pandemic Inflation.