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Over 60 New York Times Graphs for Students to Analyze

A collection of graphs, maps and charts organized by topic and graph type from three years of "What's Going On in This Graph?"

Published June 10, 2020 Updated Oct. 23, 2020

Scroll through the dozens of graphs in the slide show above or explore each graph further in the collection below. This curated list is organized by topic and graph type — ranging from science to sports, and from bar graphs to bubble charts.

If you're new to the feature, here is how it works:

• Each week during the school year we take a graph that has been published elsewhere in The New York Times and ask students to share what they notice and wonder about it. This feature is completely free, and it runs from September to May.

• We post these graphs on Thursdays, and include them in our free weekly newsletter, so teachers can plan for the coming week.

• Then, on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time, we host a live-moderated discussion where students from around the world post their observations and analysis while moderators from A.S.A. facilitate the student conversation.

• Your class can join the discussion any day of the week, not just Wednesdays, and students can even comment on graphs in our archive.

• On Thursday afternoons, a week after we publish each graph, we add a "reveal" to the post which includes additional background about these graphs, shout-outs for great student headlines, and relevant statistical concepts.

Graphs Organized by Topic

Environment, Science and Technology

• 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

• Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs

Education

• Six Myths About Choosing a Major

• Old Skills, New Careers: Workers in Fading Jobs Often Already Have What It Takes to Succeed in Growing Ones

• Where Education Drives Mobility

Covid-19

• How Bad Will the Crisis Get?

• Why We Need to Keep the Curve Flat

• You Can Break the Chain of Transmission

• What If We Open America Too Early?

• Seven Ways to Explore the Math of the Coronavirus

• How the Virus Transformed How Americans Spend Their Money

• How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take?

• Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym?

The Arts, Sports and Culture

• The Words Men and Women Use When They Write About Love

• What Music Do Americans Love the Most? 50 Detailed Fan Maps

• Pumpkin Pie in Miami: Thanksgiving Flight Patterns

• What if a $250 Shoe Actually Made You Race Faster?

• How a New Kind of Pop Star Stormed 2018

• Do Summer Songs Sound the Same?

• Manny Machado Signed a $300 Million Deal; Bryce Harper's Could Be for More. Will They Be Worth It?

• How Popular Is Baseball, Really?

• Inside Footballs' Campaign to Save the Game

• Three Months' Salary for an Engagement Ring? For Most People, It's More Like Two Weeks

Health and Wellness

• 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

United States Economy, Politics, History and Civics

• 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?

• 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

Global Economies, History, Politics and Culture

• Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an Edge

• What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer

• Migrants Are on the Rise Around the World, and Myths About Them Are Shaping Attitudes.

• Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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Graphs Organized by Type

Distribution (values and their frequency)

• Six Myths About Choosing a Major (boxplot)

• It's Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter. (histogram)

• The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America (histogram)

• Data Shows Decline in Number of White Neighborhoods (histogram)

• Three Months' Salary for an Engagement Ring? For Most People, It's More Like Two Weeks (histogram)

Association (relationship between two or more variables)

• Is Sushi Healthy? What About Granola? Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree (scatter plot)

• The Words Men and Women Use When They Write About Love (bubble chart)

• What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer (scatter plot)

• Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. (scatter plot)

• Old Skills, New Careers: Workers in Fading Jobs Often Already Have What It Takes to Succeed in Growing Ones (scatter plot)

• Manny Machado Signed a $300 Million Deal; Bryce Harper's Could Be for More. Will They Be Worth It? (scatter plot)

• Serena Williams Reaches For Margaret Court (line chart)

• What's the Right Number of Taxis? (scatterplot)

• Undocumented Population and Crime Rate" (scatter plot)

• Privacy Policies Are a Mess" (scatter plot)

• How Bad Will the Crisis Get? (scatter plot)

• How the Virus Transformed How Americans Spend Their Money (bubble chart)

• Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym? (bubble chart)

Time

• Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an Edge (line time series)

• How the Growth of E-Commerce Is Shifting Retail Jobs (step time series)

• The Places in the U. S. Where Disaster Strikes Again and Again (dot and column time series)

• With Kennedy's Retirement, the Supreme Court Loses Its Center (line time series)

• A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? (line time series)

• Student Loan Rates Are Rising. Here's What You Need to Know. (area chart)

• Where Are America's Winters Warming the Most? (diverging bar graph time series)

• The Monopolization of America (slope time series)

• F.D.A. to Limit How Stores Sell Vaping Flavors (line time series)

• 2018 Continues Warming Trend, As 4th Hottest Since 1880 (time series with baseline)

• Why Euthanasia Rates at Animal Shelters Have Plummeted (stacked area time series)

• How Popular Is Baseball, Really? (time series)

• How Much Political Experience Does It Take to Be Elected President? (timeline)

• The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions In America (Line time series & stacked area time series)

• An Ecological Crisis as 2.9 Billion Birds Vanish (time series)

• Why We Need to Keep the Curve Flat (time series)

• Mystery of the Missing Bus Riders (time series)

• What If We Open America Too Early? (time series)

• 2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade (time series)

• Anti-Immigration Shift in U.S. Promoted Rise of a Young Firebrand (time series)

• How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take? (critical path diagram)

Comparing Categories

• Apple Is Worth $1,000,000,000,000. Two Decades Ago, It Was Almost Bankrupt. (area graph)

• The Myth of the Lazy November (pictogram)

• What if a $250 Shoe Actually Made You Race Faster? (dot plot)

• A Typical "Dreamer" Lives in Los Angeles, Is From Mexico and Came to the U.S. at 6. (bar graph)

• How Bad Was Her Commute? This $8,650 Scarf Tells the Tale (stacked time series graph)

• How Does Your State Make Electricity? (ranking area graph)

• Do Summer Songs Sound the Same? (radar graph)

• Where Education Drives Mobility (data chart)

• Bigger, Saltier, Heavier: Fast Food Since 1986 in 3 Simple Charts (back-to-back bar graphs)

• Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered (bar graphs)

• An Ecological Crisis as 2.9 Billion Birds Vanish (bar graph)

• Inside Football's Campaign to Save the Game (infographic)

• Water Crisis May Grip One-Quarter of Humanity (dot plot)

• Three Months' Salary for an Engagement Ring? For Most People, It's More Like Two Weeks (bar chart)

• Out with the Old, In with the Young (bar chart)

• Why Afghanistan Became an Invisible War: Yearly Front-Page Headlines About War (bar graph)

• How the Virus Transformed How Americans Spent Their Money (bubble chart)

Parts to Whole

• How a New Kind of Pop Star Stormed 2018 (segmented bar graph)

• How Does Your State Make Electricity? (ranking area graph)

• Where Education Drives Mobility (segmented bar graph)

• The Major Issue of Mental Health (segmented bar graph)

• How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take? (probability tree diagram)

Maps

• Houston May Get 50 Inches of Rain. How Long Does it Take Your City to Get That Much? (heat map)

• What Music Do Americans Love the Most? 50 Detailed Fan Maps (heat map)

• Migrants Are on the Rise Around the World, and Myths About Them Are Shaping Attitudes. (directed graph)

• Political Bubbles and Hidden Diversity: Highlights From a Very Detailed Map of the 2016 Election (heat map)

• Pumpkin Pie in Miami: Thanksgiving Flight Patterns (directed graph)

• A Picture of Social Connectedness in America (heat map)

• Is America's Military Big Enough? (bubble map)

• Hang On, Northeast. In Some Parts, Spring Has Already Sprung. (time series heat map)

• Read a Hurricane Map the Right Way (map)

• A 'Full' Nation in Dire Need of New Faces (heatmap)

• An Ecological Crisis as 2.9 Billion Birds Vanish (heatmap)

• Water Crisis May Grip One-Quarter of Humanity (heatmap)

Other

• You Can Break the Chain of Transmission (tree diagram)

• How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take? (probability tree diagram)

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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/learning/over-60-new-york-times-graphs-for-students-to-analyze.html

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