Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I appreciate that 🙏🏼 So nice meeting you at the conference! 010
Reposted by Christine ZhangEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Never going to look at NYT election data the same was again after hearing @christinezhang.bsky.social ‘s awesome @posit.co ::conf keynote! She discussed all the diff viz they considered to capture the plethora of sources of uncertainty in polling data (Also the needle and election night plots!) 291
Reposted by Christine ZhangLucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with @hadley.nz about an over-engineered solution to purchase some beautiful art! 2163
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I had an amazing time talking w/ @lucystats.bsky.social @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social about my longrunning Law & Order obsession on Regression to the Mean Girls!! Check out my analysis of the Law & Order timeline ⚖️👩🏻⚖️ regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/03-law... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...creators.spotify.comThe Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order, with Christine Zhang by Regression to the Mean GirlsChristine Zhang (New York Times) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: regression... 1185
Reposted by Christine ZhangPosit @posit.co · 17/09/2026posit::conf(2026) is outta here! 👋 From Wes McKinney's AI keynote to Quarto slides, Shiny apps, & termite colonies, Day 2 was radical. Share your photos and reflections with the hashtag #PositConf2026 ❤️ See you in Seattle Sept 13-15 for posit::conf(2027). Until then, keep it real! 0277
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🔥 @jennybryan.bsky.social lightning talk at @posit.co #positconf on how to name files!! agreed — this date format is the best 0131
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026sad to not be covering this momentous #fed day as I’m at @posit.co #positconf, but Very glad to see the Fed balance sheet visualized in Hamid Shafiezadeh’s excellent presentation at the #rstats R nerds session 🤓, “When English Is Second, R Comes First” 1142
Reposted by Christine ZhangBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates by a quarter point as policymakers try to tamp down inflation after more than five years of above-target price increases. Full coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09... #EconSkynytimes.comLive Updates: Fed Faces a Credibility Test on Interest Rates 44214
Reposted by Christine ZhangEmily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Would also like to share AAPOR's Election Polling Resources page, which we've cleaned up a bit recently aapor.org/election-pol...aapor.orgElection Polling Resources - AAPOR 1104
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🤯 jay westreich made a localized version of geoguessr in #rstats called localguessr. awesome talk @posit.co #positconf & some great lessons about how R can help you explore your more whimsical projects (which I very much believe as well!) www.localguessr.com 060
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good point by @wesmckinney.com during the @posit.co #positconf keynote that calling AI agents “agents” give them … agency. But *we* should be the agents. 1121
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Primary polls had a bad year. What does that mean for general election polls, which are ramping up after Labor Day? My colleagues Caroline Soler & Evan Reynolds looked at the data: Big misses in primary polling != similar misses in generals. More from them here --> 🎁 nyti.ms/4cMthcJ 031
Reposted by Christine ZhangLucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls we interview @christinezhang.bsky.social (@nytimes.com ) who takes us down a delightful rabbit hole of Law & Order theories on the comfort of competence & speed of justice ⚖️ regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/03-law... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...creators.spotify.comThe Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order, with Christine Zhang by Regression to the Mean GirlsChristine Zhang (New York Times) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: regression... 021
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Headed to Houston for #positconf! I can’t overstate the impact that @posit.co’s opensource products & packages (RStudio, Positron, tidyverse) have had on me as a journalist & data nerd 🤓 Thrilled/terrified to be giving a keynote presentation on Tues. If you’re there, say hello! conf.posit.co/2026/ 2508
Reposted by Christine ZhangThe Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 07/09/2026Fun charts here on Hollywood's relative box office boom. “The catch is when you adjust for inflation." Via @christinezhang.bsky.social and Brooks Barnes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHollywood’s Box Office Boom Comes With 248 Million Missing TicketsStrong box office sales this summer have Hollywood celebrating. But a closer look at the numbers offers a sobering reality check. 023
Reposted by Christine ZhangBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Seeing some posts about the divergence between BLS and ADP. But on a one-month basis, such gaps aren't at all unusual. And on a 12-month basis, the two sources are closely aligned. #NumbersDay 2313
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Thanks for reading & pointing that out; the data is from the 2022 EAVS report and is rounded up to the nearest whole number per our footnote. In Oregon the % was 99.6% www.eac.gov/media/262516 110
Reposted by Christine ZhangMarco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The world of emojis is simply fascinating. 032
Reposted by Christine ZhangBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026In a remarkable twist of timing, President Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Brett Matsumoto, looks likely to be confirmed today, on #jobsday, 12 months after he fired the last BLS commissioner following an unexpectedly weak jobs report. 414940
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026hi, the table refers to Royal Oak *Township*, not Royal Oak *City* censusreporter.org/profiles/060...censusreporter.orgCensus profile: Royal Oak charter township, Oakland County, MICensus data for Royal Oak charter township, Oakland County, MI (pop. 2,337), including age, race, sex, income, poverty, marital status, education and more. 140
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026🚨MICHIGAN PRECINCT (+TOWNSHIP) MAPS AND TABLES🚨 See the places that propelled El-Sayed to a narrow victory over Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Senate Democratic primary By Caroline Soler, Evan Reynolds, Alex Lemonides, Ilana Marcus & me 🎁 nyti.ms/459mgP8nyti.msThe Coalitions That Propelled El-Sayed’s Michigan Victory (Gift Article)Racial and ethnic splits, and a wide lead among younger voters, were enough for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, to hold off Haley Stevens, a moderate, in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. 64912
Reposted by Christine ZhangColby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026SCOOP: Warsh is considering reducing the number of policy meetings the Fed holds each year. He raised the idea at this week's meeting, according to four people with knowledge of the situation 14312
Reposted by Christine ZhangEconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is an interesting graph from NYT 🔗 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/29/bus… 1235
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 30/07/2026yep we’ve done various forms of it in past coverage - e.g. highlighting presidents vs governors, additional annotations, etc. 172
Reposted by Christine ZhangBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: The stock market is not the economy. Except, right now, maybe it is? A.I. is driving the market. The market is driving spending and investment (much of it on A.I.). But what happens if it all comes crashing down? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...nytimes.comA.I. Is Lifting Markets and the Economy and Raising Risks for Both (Gift Article)Investment in artificial intelligence and related companies is lifting the stock market and spending across the economy. 1110242
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Read our About page to learn more about our Wrong Number newsletter (& to find out why we called it that!) and subscribe for semi-regular nerdy tidbits 🤓🤓 wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/about-wron...wrongnumber.beehiiv.comAbout ‘Wrong Number’What this newsletter is, who we are, and why we named it that. 010
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 17/07/2026And the amazing @jdharden.bsky.social writes beautifully about the evolution of trees throughout the country, sparked by his hobby of identifying trees in his neighborhood 🌲 wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/your-neigh...wrongnumber.beehiiv.comYour Neighborhood Is Getting… GreentreefiedWhen new trees begin to move in. 110
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Which theme park rides are most likely to maim you for life?? @caitlingilbert.bsky.social crunches the numbers on a gnarly dataset about gnarly accidents, man occurring in the Happiest Place on Earth wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/the-dark-s...wrongnumber.beehiiv.comThe Dark Side of Orlando Theme Parks"I went to Disney World and all I got was this horrific injury" -a t-shirt I wouldn't be allowed to wear in the park 120
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 17/07/2026How long does it take for the police to investigate crime and the district attorneys to prosecute the offenders in the TV world of Law & Order, and how does that compare with the *actual* timeline of criminal justice — an analysis by yours truly wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/the-speed-...wrongnumber.beehiiv.comThe Speed of Justice, According to Law & OrderHow long it takes for the police to investigate crime, and the district attorneys to prosecute the offenders, in an average Law & Order episode. 100
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 17/07/2026🚨DATA ALERT🚨 I started a 🤓 newsletter w/ @caitlingilbert.bsky.social & @jdharden.bsky.social, check it out if you wanna go down some fun data rabbit holes unrelated to our day jobs 🧵 wrongnumber.beehiiv.comwrongnumber.beehiiv.comHome | Wrong Numbera newsletter for our data hyperfixations 1226
Reposted by Christine ZhangCaitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 17/07/2026very very excited to be launching Wrong Number with my buds @christinezhang.bsky.social and @jdharden.bsky.social! It’s a newsletter dedicated to all of our weird data obsessions: our first posts cover Law & Order, trees, and theme park accidents wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/about-wron...wrongnumber.beehiiv.comAbout ‘Wrong Number’What this newsletter is, who we are, and why we named it that. 34514
Reposted by Christine ZhangThe Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 15/07/2026We asked more than 3,000 voters in battleground states for the main reason behind their support for these Senate candidates. VIa @christinezhang.bsky.social, Caroline Soler and Ruth Igielnik www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 072
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026🚨NYC PRECINCT MAPS feat. 6 House races: 3 districts where Mamdani endorsed: 7 (Valdez), 10 (Lander), 13 (Avila Chevalier) + 3 key races elsewhere in NYC: 6 (Meng), 9 (Clarke), 12 (Lasher) By Alex Lemonides, Caroline Soler, Evan Reynolds +me 🎁 Link: nyti.ms/4g19V6d www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comSee Where Mamdani’s Slate of House Hopefuls Did Best 2289
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 10/06/2026our L.A. precinct map is now updated with more results!! (~95% of the vote is reflected) 0144
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 05/06/2026MAP: precinct results (preliminary) of the L.A. mayor’s race 🎁 link —> nyti.ms/4g9g0NI w/ Alex Lemonides, Caroline Soler, Matt Bloch & @shawnhubler.bsky.socialnyti.msSee Where the L.A. Mayoral Candidates Have Done Best So Far (Gift Article)A map of early returns shows where coalitions have formed in the race between Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman. 1307
Reposted by Christine ZhangBen Welsh @palewi.re · 26/05/2026📊 The fivethirtyeightindex.com database has expanded to include 13,000 charts and 3,000 illustrations clawed out of the site's HTML and saved individually in a new archive.org collection. fivethirtyeightindex.com/graphics […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re] 0145
Reposted by Christine ZhangFederal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 14/05/2026Stephen I. Miran submits his resignation as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sworn in: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...federalreserve.govStephen I. Miran submits his resignation as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sworn inStephen I. Miran submitted his resignation Thursday as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sw 41811
Reposted by Christine ZhangNathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026@palewi.re has created an index of all the FiveThirtyEight articles that are preserved on the Internet Archive. Very useful: fivethirtyeightindex.comfivethirtyeightindex.comfivethirtyeightindex.comAn index of every fivethirtyeight.com article preserved by the Internet Archive. 211624
Reposted by Christine ZhangColby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Powell's tenure is not over just yet. Because Warsh has not been sworn in, Powell will serve as chair pro tempore, the Fed said on Friday. Bowman and Miran say they didn't support the temporary designation 28620
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It’s Jerome Powell’s last day as Fed chair. My charticle on the economy (and the Fed) that Kevin Warsh, his successor, is inheriting 📈📉📊💸 GIFT LINK —> nyti.ms/3PMdFh3nyti.msThe Economy That Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve’s New Chair, Is Inheriting (Gift Article)The incoming chair of the Fed will need to navigate a delicate economic moment, a president who wants to lower rates and an increasingly divisive leadership committee. 13212
Reposted by Christine ZhangThe Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 14/05/2026Via @christinezhang.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe Economy That Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve’s New Chair, Is InheritingThe incoming chair of the Fed will need to navigate a delicate economic moment, a president who wants to lower rates and an increasingly divisive leadership committee. 061
Reposted by Christine ZhangColby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026"It’s very clear that the balance sheet cannot be immediately reduced without causing a liquidity crunch that nobody would like," says Darrell Duffie at Stanford. "Both the plan and the execution are going to make the difference between failure and success." 264
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 23/04/2026on the cutting room floor of our Virginia precincts analysis: a *map* of the referendum results & 2024 prez results along proposed district lines we contextualize these results in the article 🎁 link: nyti.ms/4sLUktJ 13211
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 23/04/2026We looked the precinct level results in VA’s redistricting referendum & what they can tell us about how “yes” eked out a narrow victory www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u... 5284
Reposted by Christine ZhangColby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 14/03/2026For a moment on Friday, Kevin Warsh was on a glide path to becoming the next Fed chair But within the hour, his pathway narrowed about as quickly as it had emerged, as the DOJ vowed to appeal a ruling that thwarted an investigation into the central bank www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b... @nytimes.comnytimes.comJustice Dept. Legal Threat Complicates Trump’s Pick for Fed Chair 35115
Reposted by Christine ZhangKaren Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Rough count of Epstein consequences so far: ▶️ 20 lost jobs (Europe and U.S.) ▶️ 4 arrested, charged and/or under criminal investigation (Europe) Follow along as we track the Epstein fallout (GIFT LINK) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comAfter the Epstein Files Release, Who Has Resigned, Been Fired or Is Being Investigated? (Gift Article)This list will be updated and includes people who have faced concrete consequences, such as the loss of their position, as a result of their connection to Jeffrey Epstein. 2220093
