This is an index of the “What’s Going On in This Graph?” archive organized by topic. Includes graphs from September 2017 – May 2026.
ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- How safe are self-driving cars?
- Where does the world get its A.I.?
- Where are insurance companies dropping homeowners?
- Have you ever heard a sonic boom? Can you imagine what it might be like to hear one every day?
- This graph tells a story about butterfly populations over time. What is happening, and why?
- Houston May Get 50 Inches of Rain. How Long Does It Take Your City to Get that Much?
- It’s Not Your Imagination. Summers are Getting Hotter
- The Places in the U. S. Where Disaster Strikes Again and Again
- Where Are America’s Winters Warming the Most?
- How Does Your State Make Electricity?
- Hang On, Northeast. In Some Parts, Spring Has Already Sprung.
- Read a Hurricane Map the Right Way
- 2018 Continues Warming Trend, As 4th Hottest Since 1880
- What’s the Right Number of Taxis?
- The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions In America
- Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered
- Privacy Policies Are a Mess
- 2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade
- Every Place Has Its Own Climate Risk. What Is It Where You Live?
- Electric Cars Are Better for the Planet – and Often Your Budget, Too
- Calculating Pollution’s Toll, Across State LInes
- What It Means to Breath the World’s Most Polluted Air: ‘You Can’t Function, You Can’t Thrive.
- Everyone Has Its Own Climate Risks. What’s Yours?
- As Climate Changes, So Do Growing Zones, and What Plants Will Thrive Where
- Electric Cars Are Coming. Will They Rule the Road?
- There is a New Definition of ‘Normal’ for Weather
- Where Wind and Solar Needs to Grow to Meet Its Goals
- Who Has the Most Historical Responsibility for Climate Change?
- A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution
- A Vivid View of Extreme Weather: Temperature Records in the U.S. in 2021
- This Map Shows Where Biodiversity is At Most Risk in America
- Why We Are Experiencing So Many Usually Hot Summer Nights
- The 500-Year-Old Tree in California Has a Story to Tell
- Ten-Day Temperature Trends
- The Last Years Were the Hottest on Record
- How Turkey’s Anatolian Fault System Causes Devastating Earthquakes
- Over 1,000 Trains Derail Every Year In America. Let’s Bring That Number Down
- For Planet Earth, this Might Be a Start of a New Age
- Here’s Where Global Heat Records Stand in July
- The Energy Transition: The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think
- The World Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next?
- The Colorado River Is Shrinking. See What’s Using All of the Water.
- Everyone Says Social Media Is Bad for Teens. Proving It Is Another Thing
- The U.S. Regulates Cars, Radio and TV. When Will It Regulate A.I.?
- See How 2023 Shattered Records to Become the Hottest Year
- How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
- New York Times for Kids Opinion Issue
- How Electricity Is Changing Country By Country
- It’s Not Your Imagination that Summer Is Getting Hotter
- How Does Your Stat Make Electricity?
- Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot
- See the Ocean Heat Fueling Hurricane Milton, in One Chart.
- In a Record, All But Two States Are in a Drought
- Childhood Vaccinations Were Falling Even Before the Rise of RFK Jr.
- A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized
HEALTH & WELLNESS
- How much of your household income goes toward health insurance premiums?
- How much screen time are students getting at school?
- How much does it cost to save a life?
- How does life expectancy vary by state and country?
- Is Sushi Healthy? What About Granola Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree
- Obesity Was Rising As Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.
- The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America.
- A Picture of Social Connectedness in America
- How Bad Was Her Commute? This $8,650 Scarf Tells the Tale
- F. D. A. to Limit How Stores Sell Vaping Flavors
- Bigger, Saltier, Heavier: Fast Food Since 1986 in 3 Simple Charts
- Why Euthanasia Rates at Animal Shelters Have Plummeted
- Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered
- The Major Issue of Mental Health
- Which Would You Choose to Instantly Master?
- The Elderly vs. Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?
- Racism’s Hidden Toll
- Calculating Pollution’s Toll, Across State LInes
- What It Means to Breath the World’s Most Polluted Air: ‘You Can’t Function, You Can’t Thrive.’
- America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. (smoking)
- America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. (life expectancy)
- The Pandemic Changed How We Spent Our Time
- Least Inoculated States Lead Spike in Children’s Cases
- Where Are Young People Most Optimistic? In Poorer Nations
- ‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
- Serena Williams Dominated Her Generation, and then the Next One, Too
- Just How Bad Is the ‘Tripledemic’
- Over 1,000 Trains Derail Every Year In America. Let’s Bring That Number Down
- Can You Answer These Sex Education Questions? A Post-Roe Quiz
- How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World
- Collective Force of Head Hits, Not Just the Number of Them, Increases Odds of C.T.E.
- Everyone Says Social Media Is Bad for Teens. Proving It Is Another Thing
- How America’s diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
- Parents Are Highly Involved with Their Children’s Lives, and Fine with It.
- Wait. N.F.L. Players Eat How Many Uncrustables?
- Will This New U.S. Project Make the World’s Children Smarter?
- Childhood Vaccinations Were Falling Even Before the Rise of RFK Jr.
- Is Sushi ‘Healthy’?
THE ARTS, SPORTS AND CULTURE
COVID-19
EDUCATION
UNITED STATES ECONOMY, POLITICS, HISTORY AND CIVICS
- What relationship, if any, do these graphs suggest between gas prices and presidential approval ratings?
- What does this graph show about yield rates at U.S. colleges based on their level of selectivity?
- How do Americans feel about the affordability of education, housing, health care, having a family and retirement?
- Who are the adults in children’s lives?
- What do you notice about how much it costs the U.S. government to make a penny, nickel, dime and quarter? What questions does this graph raise for you?
- How much is a dollar worth?
- Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an Edge
- How the Growth of E-Commerce is Shifting Retail Jobs
- What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer
- Apple Is Worth $1,000,000,000,000. Two Decades Ago, It Was Almost Bankrupt.
- With Kennedy’s Retirement, the Supreme Court Loses Its Center
- A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone?
- The Myth of the Lazy November
- Political Bubbles and Hidden Diversity: Highlights from a Very Detailed Map of the 2016 Election
- A Typical “Dreamer” Lives In Los Angeles, Is From Mexico and Came to the U.S. at 6.
- The Monopolization of America
- Is America’s Military Big Enough?
- How Does Your State Make Electricity?
- What’s the Right Number of Taxis?
- Old Skills, New Careers: Workers In Fading Jobs Often Already Have What It Takes to Succeed in
Growing Ones
- How Much Political Experience Does It Take to Be Elected President?
- Undocumented Population and Crime Rate
- Data Shows Decline in Number of White Neighborhoods
- Why Afghanistan Became an Invisible War: Yearly Front-Page Headlines About War
- Mystery of the Missing Bus Riders
- How the Virus Transformed How Americans Spent Their Money
- Anti-Immigration Shift in U.S. Promoted Rise of a Young Firebrand
- When It Comes to ‘Essential,’ It’s a Woman’s World Today
- Retail Sales Rise, but Slightly, Signaling a Recovery in Decline
- Why Does America Have Old Leaders?
- Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins
- How the Vote Shifted in 2020
- Electric Cars Are Better for the Planet – and Often Your Budget, Too
- A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen From Above
- Electric Cars Are Coming. Will They Rule the Road?
- The Jobs the Pandemic May Devastate
- Biden’s $4 Trillion Economic Plan, in One Chart
- Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps
- 179 Reasons You Probably Don’t Need to Panic About Inflation
- Which States Will Gain or Loss Seats in the Next Congress
- The Real Trick to Solving a Murder Case
- What an Adult Tricycle Says About the World’s Bottleneck Problems
- How Maps Reshape American Politics
- Where the Racial Makeup of the U.S. Shifted in the Last Decade
- Inside the Diverse and Growing Asian Population in the U.S.
- The Wedding Business is Booming, A Short-Term Jolt to the Economy
- Americans Say that High Prices Are Hitting the Things They Need to Get By
- Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving Population Growth
- America Has a Free Speech Problem
- Where $5 Trillion of Federal Pandemic Stimulus Money Went
- Cities Lost Population in 2021, Leading to the Slowest Growth in U.S. History
- Which Elected Leaders Should Do More on Climate?
- Why Do So Many Children of Immigrants Rise to the Top
- A Crisis Coming: Twin Threats to American Democracy
- Why Eggs Cost So Much
- It’s Boom Times for Santa
- A Powerful Tool for Fighting Corruption Is Going Extinct
- The U.S. Regulates Cars, Radio and TV. When Will It Regulate A.I.?
- How to Fix America’s Immigration Crisis
- New York Times for Kids Opinion Issue
- Shrinkflation 101: The Economics of Smaller Groceries
- Comparing the Career Timelines of Trump, Vance, Harris and Walz
- Who the Swing Voters Are
- Who Still Works at Home?
- How Book Bans Happen Under the Radar
- 2024 Elections: The Final Tallies
- The U.S. Economy Is Surpassing Expectations. Immigration Is One Reason.
- How Tariffs Work
- 30 Graphs that Show that Covid Changed Everything in March 2020
- Nearly One in 10 U.S. Adults Identifies as L.G.B.T.Q., Survey Finds
GLOBAL ECONOMY, HISTORY, POLITICS AND CULTURE