I enjoy making data visualizations. Almost all use R+ggplot2, and some use gganimate.

Additional visualizations can be found on my Twitter account.

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Child mortality, 1900-2016

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Life expectancy, 1800-2016.

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Percent change in resident population, 2020 vs. 2010.

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Estimated percentage of a county who are vaccine hesitant vs. 2020 Democratic presidential vote share.

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Home price index, 1991-2020.

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Most popular girl and boy names by state, 1910-2019.

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Fertility (babies per woman), 1800-2016.

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The number of international students studying in U.S. colleges each year, by country of origin, 1999-00 through 2018-19.

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College openings, 1636–1979.

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Post office (blue) and college (red) openings, 1750-1979.

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Child mortality, 1900-2016.

Link to code. See also this.

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GameStop stock price.

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Walmarts per million people. Darker=more. Source: Business Insider.

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Simple impact factor of 200 economics journals.

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Spam vs. legitimate email, average global emails per day.

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Coal production by state.

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% of all PhDs earned by women over time

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Travelers passing through TSA checkpoints by day, where red is 2020 and black is 2019.

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Utah has more members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints than all the states colored blue combined.

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Life expectancy vs. health expenditure.

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State-to-state migration, where the red state is the sending state and darker=more sending. Uses ACS data.

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How Oktibbeha County, Mississippi is connected to other counties, using Facebook SCI data.

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Bend, Oregon air quality (PM 2.5), September 7-13, 2011-2020. There were fires in 2020.

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Falling fertility, 100+ years.

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The yellow states are the states in which it is legal to own an otter.

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The yellow states are the states in which it is legal to own a raccoon.

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Where professors at top economics departments got their Ph.D.s.

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Where professors at economics departments (right) got their Ph.D.s. (left).

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U.S. public schools

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AEA JOE job postings by week, 2018-19

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The spread of Walmart

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Creation of U.S. national parks

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Tornadoes by year

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Women's education, 1970-2015

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NBER publications

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The above plot shows the total number of births by year, with each color representing

a different age of mother. There is a persistent spike that occurs for mothers

born in or close to 1946, presumably reflecting the increased number of individuals

born in the baby boom. I used the NCHS Natality data, housed at NBER.

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Child mortality versus total fertility rate, where each dot is a country.

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U.S. fertility rate

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Target store openings

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Source: Wikipedia. Bezos number does not reflect divorce.

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NBA team win % by halftime point differential

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Life expectancy

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Fraction of NBA field goals that are 3 pointers

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U.S. property crime over time

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Active-duty U.S. military by branch

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In-N-Out openings

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Plots of the evolution of the most popular U.S. baby girl names from 1880 to 2012,

where the names shown are the top names in 1880. Data from SSA.

See many more examples here.

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Likelihood of an animal crash.

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Official marathon world records over time

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Mean center of the U.S. population

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