08/31/2026
Why does one chart land while the next one just sits there?
It usually comes down to a handful of choices.
📊 Weekly is where we study those choices in work by others. It's a recurring series on our blog. We open far more data visualization projects than we can write about, and only a few make it into each edition, where we go through them and how they work.
If you build your own graphics, that's the useful part. Seeing what someone picked for a particular kind of data, and how it holds up once it is on the page.
The four this time:
📍 AI homework help and exam scores
By The Economist
↳ Tracks 27,000 pupils and finds homework up, exams down.
📍 Reasons Americans stay out of labor force
By Nathan Yau // FlowingData
↳ Follows who works, and what keeps the rest out.
📍 English Premier League jerseys since 1992
By Mayank Munjal, Sumanta Sen // Reuters
↳ Counts every shirt the league's 20 clubs have released.
📍 1.8 million NYC trees by genus
By Daniel Katz, David Miller // Cornell University
↳ Colors every tree crown across the five boroughs.
Check out the full roundup on our blog 👀
Built a project where the visuals bring something out of the numbers? Send it over, it could turn up in a coming edition.