FlowingData

Most-linked posts?

1. Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics
   15 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2009-02-19
2. A Day in the Life of Americans
   8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-05-17
3. Defense Against Dishonest Charts
   7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-02-16
4. Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950
   6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-09-12
5. How You Will Die Simulator
   5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-01-22
6. One Dataset, Visualized 25 Ways
   5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-01-24
7. FlowingData tutorial: make a choropleth map using python and svg
   5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-11-12
8. The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S.
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-08-31
9. Who is Married by Now
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-11-01
10. True size of Africa
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-05-20

What Hacker News says?

1. anthony_barker · 2020-01-06

   - More time is spent on taking care of loved ones https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-amer... - Less time commuting (companies get better at managing a distributed work force) - the 50% of people not connected to the internet start to get access https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/18/almost-50... - wages are driven down globally by this additional 50% coming online creating more backl…

   Comment linking /2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-americans/

   on “Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?”
2. thrower123 · 2021-10-26

   Submitted Which jobs most often pair together among married couples as a story · 471 points

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3. stared · 2025-10-15

   Sure, media reporting is biased towards things that are sensationalist. At the same time, total death factors are not that interesting. Everyone of us will die one day, and it might be assigned to various organs failing first. What matters more is causes of death as a function of age: https://flowingdata.com/mortality/

   Comment linking /mortality/

   on “What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on”
4. thehoff · 2016-02-19

   Submitted The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice as a story · 452 points

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5. tyrust · 2018-06-01

   >the prior number ignores the cumulative probability that you have died as a <50 yr old during all years prior to 2016 Ah you're right about that. Looks like I'm probably way off. This random thing google turned up [0] says that a 25 y/o male has like a ~70% chance to make it to 50! >Given that all of us will die Something doesn't feel right about this, but I can't figure out what. I'll let it simmer and assume you'…

   Comment linking /2015/09/23/years-you-have-left-to-live-probably/

   on “How to get rich without getting lucky”
6. mustafabisic1 · 2017-09-13

   Submitted Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950 as a story · 299 points

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7. kelseyfrog · 2022-02-09

   This is a spitball take, but I'm trying it out because I'm more interested in learning how it plays out than actually making a point. Socialization is moving at a slower pace than the shift in economics. The trade deficit starting in the 1970s has overwhelmingly affected goods [1], resulting in the exporting of goods production overseas and leaving the US with a service-based economy[2]. The US at the time had a gre…

   Comment linking /2017/09/11/most-female-and-male-occupations-since-1950/

   on “The data are clear: The boys are not all right”
8. jkw · 2017-09-05

   Submitted Divorce and Occupation as a story · 277 points

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9. devnull3 · 2021-10-27

   Another data point from same website: Divorce Rate By Occupation https://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/

   Comment linking /2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/

   on “Which jobs most often pair together among married couples”
10. ingve · 2015-09-24

    Submitted Years You Have Left to Live, Probably as a story · 230 points

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11. myroon5 · 2021-10-27

    https://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/

    Comment linking /2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/

    on “Which jobs most often pair together among married couples”
12. well_i_never · 2019-10-28

    Submitted The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. as a story · 189 points

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13. notacoward · 2021-10-26

    Not apparent in the original chart, but in the follow-on bubble chart there seems to be a weirdly strong connection between fire inspectors and pumping station operators. https://flowingdata.com/2017/08/28/occupation-matchmaker/ They both seem like very small groups, though, so probably just an amusing bit of statistical noise.

    Comment linking /2017/08/28/occupation-matchmaker/

    on “Which jobs most often pair together among married couples”
14. bribri · 2021-05-16

    Submitted Peak non-creepy dating pool as a story · 178 points

    HN discussion
15. dmurray · 2021-10-26

    > This study captures P(running into a profession) x P(preference for that profession). I would love to them model P(running into a profession), so that we could get the much juicer preferences of each group for various professions. The page links to a different visualization of the same data, [0] which attempts to control for the prevalence of a job within the population. Maybe it doesn't go far enough for you but…

    Comment linking /2017/08/28/occupation-matchmaker/

    on “Which jobs most often pair together among married couples”
16. algui91 · 2017-11-19

    Submitted Switching Jobs as a story · 169 points

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17. minikites · 2021-04-02

    >Who are you, human, to pretend you are able to measure yourself?! A lot of people do not in fact know how to measure themselves properly for clothes (many people measure the wrong part of their body for the "waist"). Perhaps even more people think they're a certain size, but have never actually measured themselves, they just go by the measurements on clothes they already own, which are frequently "vanity sized" to…

    Comment linking /2010/09/30/advertised-vs-actual-waistline/

    on “Move Slow and Make Things”
18. paulb81 · 2018-09-20

    Submitted A Day in the Life of Americans as a story · 155 points

    HN discussion
19. Jach · 2022-03-25

    Here's a cite: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici... Of course it's not the only thing, and can be greatly mediated by other factors. From the book Age of Em , citing that and other sources, "people today tend to be both happier and more productive when they have jobs, autonomy at work, health, beauty, money, marriage, religion, intelligence, extroversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness,…

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2008/06/lisa-simpson-graph1.jpg

    on “Crows possess higher intelligence, thought a primarily human attribute (2020)”
20. gslin · 2021-12-30

    Submitted Anonymized data is rarely anonymous as a story · 140 points

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21. dang · 2018-04-12

    Changed to that from http://flowingdata.com/2018/04/10/the-moon-in-4k-resolution/ . Thanks!

    Comment linking /2018/04/10/the-moon-in-4k-resolution/

    on “The Moon in 4k resolution [video]”
22. bookofjoe · 2024-01-19

    Submitted New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again as a story · 128 points

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23. mutagen · 2021-10-12

    I miss the old WeatherSpark visualization of past conditions and the future forecast. They had a wonderful graph of various weather parameters in a nice slippy zoom interface that made it easy to visualize the forecast. It was built in Flash and they decided that a HTML version wasn't viable due to declining ad revenue. Some appreciation and screenshots of the old version: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sad-day-weat…

    Comment linking /2011/03/14/weatherspark-for-more-graphs-about-the-weather-than-you-will-ever-need/

    on “Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints””
24. rjim86 · 2011-11-25

    Submitted Google Streetview stop motion (video) as a story · 119 points

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25. goodpoint · 2022-09-14

    Not according to https://flowingdata.com/2021/05/26/jobs-that-marry-together/

    Comment linking /2021/05/26/jobs-that-marry-together/

    on “Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?”
26. ric3rcar · 2015-12-16

    Submitted Think Like a Statistician – Without the Math as a story · 118 points

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27. sanzen · 2017-04-21

    Just the links from comments: http://hndigest.com/ http://ambassadors.thehustle.co/ http://androidweekly.net/ http://ben-evans.com/newsletter http://delanceyplace.com/ http://eepurl.com/cE6e9H http://fair.org/ http://fermatslibrary.com/ http://flowingdata.com/ http://fortune.com/tag/term-sheet/ http://freshpatents.com http://frontendfocus.co/ http://growthhackingidea.com/ http://hackaday.com http://hackernewsbooks.c…

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    on “Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?”
28. hokkos · 2016-05-20

    Submitted What Americans ate on an average day, for the past several decades as a story · 112 points

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29. keithb- · 2017-04-11

    Flowing Data http://flowingdata.com/ FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.

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    on “Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?”
30. shawndumas · 2011-03-24

    Submitted History of the [Western] world in 100 seconds [According to Wikipedia] as a story · 101 points

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