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When you compare the price of things today against prices one year ago, almost everything increased in cost at a rapid rate. While out of the ordinary, it’s definitely not the first time this happened. The New York Times zoomed out to show year-over-year price change since 1960, framing the timeline in the context of age generations.
Zoom into the data super close, and every blip can seem like a mountain. Zoom out for a better sense of scale.
Tags: generations, inflation, New York Times
Posted by in generations, inflation, New York Times, Statistical Visualization
Since no one has figured out how to defeat time, age generations come and go. This chart shows the generational breakdowns since 1920.
Posted by in age, generations, Statistical Atlas
With this straightforward unit chart, wcd.fyi shows which generation each Senate member belonged to, from 1947 through 2021. Each rectangle represents a senator, and each column represents a cohort.
As time moves on, the generations inevitably shift. In 2021, we have the first Millennial senator in Jon Ossoff from Georgia.
Tags: age, generations, government, Senate
Posted by in age, generations, government, Senate, Statistical Visualization
Based on estimates from the United States Census Bureau released for July 2019, Millennials are the largest living generation in the country now. Read More
Posted by in age, generations, Statistical Atlas
Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older music, The Pudding is running a project to find the generational music gaps. Enter your age, songs play, and you say if you know the song or not.
The aggregate results are shown as more people listen. For example, the above shows the percentage of people in a given age group who did not recognize the listed songs.
I’m looking forward to what they do with the finished dataset.
Tags: generations, music, Pudding
Posted by in generations, Music, Pudding, statistics