Data stories about the things people actually argue about.

Hover your metro and see who it actually roots for in 2026, counting only the teams that qualified.

Ten U.S. cities priced like a trading desk: singles supply, the sex balance, rent, and the cost of a date.

A hope line across every Knicks season since 1985, climbing in the good years and cratering at the specific ways only this team loses.

In-person time with friends for teens and young adults fell from about 150 minutes a day in 2003 to about 40 by 2020.

The same date priced in hours of work across ten cities. New York is the biggest bill, Miami the longest shift.

Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe and Haaland's career goals plotted by exact age instead of calendar year. The lines cross where the takes don't.

Density is not community. The number of places you can become a regular has almost nothing to do with how packed the streets are.

A $75,000 single filer paid about $8,341 in federal income tax in 2024. Here is the line-by-line receipt for where it went.

Her whole catalog plotted by Spotify's own mood numbers, happiness across the bottom and intensity up the side. The eras separate on their own.

Across rich countries people want more kids than they have, and the gap is widest where raising one costs the most.