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A weekly newsletter about data, data visualizations and the aggregated weirdness of the world around us. A pbump.com project. howtoreadthisch.art

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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 01/04/2026
Check out the whole thing for yourself! www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-journe...
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Where journeys end
There's a bit of a theme this week: migration and movement. It's not a perfect fit with everything that follows, but I don't know what you expect from a weekly newsletter about data visualization. If ...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 01/04/2026
5. And, as always, Chart Attack: random visualizations from random places.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 01/04/2026
4. Government employees don't trust their leaders.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 01/04/2026
3. How baseball teams' seasons will go depending on how their first 20 games do.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 01/04/2026
2. The plunge in new immigration between 2024 and 2025.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 01/04/2026
1. What my watch recorded when I walked 9 miles through Manhattan.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 01/04/2026
Time for a thread of what was in this week's newsletter! www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-journe...
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Where journeys end
There's a bit of a theme this week: migration and movement. It's not a perfect fit with everything that follows, but I don't know what you expect from a weekly newsletter about data visualization. If ...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/03/2026
Baseball teams that win on Opening Day go on to win 52 percent of their games that season on average. Teams that lose on Opening Day go on to win 49 percent of their games. www.pbump.net/o/opening-day/
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A review of 2,871 Opening Days — and the seasons that followed
A look at what Opening Day means for the other 161 games of the season.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 24/03/2026
So there you go! Lots to ponder, at no cost to you. Sign up sign up sign up! www.howtoreadthisch.art/visualizatio...
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Visualizations of our conversations
This week I bestow upon you, through an abundance of my well-established generosity, a series of maps offering different perspectives on the American experience. As you would therefore expect, we will...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 24/03/2026
5. And, of course, the newsletter concludes with the cornucopia of visualizations that is Chart Attack.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 24/03/2026
4. For a lot of the country, Canada isn't necessarily north and Mexico isn't necessarily south.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 24/03/2026
3. Where those who've died in ICE custody came from.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 24/03/2026
2. How well do Americans know their governors and members of Congress?
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 24/03/2026
1. Mapping what languages are spoken in cities.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 24/03/2026
Time for a thread of stuff that was packed into this week's newsletter. Comes out every Saturday and it's free. So you should probably sign up! www.howtoreadthisch.art/visualizatio...
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Visualizations of our conversations
This week I bestow upon you, through an abundance of my well-established generosity, a series of maps offering different perspectives on the American experience. As you would therefore expect, we will...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 21/03/2026
A language map of Montreal by @jamaps.bsky.social which inspired a language map of NYC by me. These and much more in this week's (free) newsletter. www.howtoreadthisch.art/visualizatio...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/03/2026
The newsletter comes out every Saturday morning. So sign up! Have something entertaining to read over the weekend. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-...
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The answers to five questions
I've been at this a while, gang, this business of looking at the world around me and wondering what patterns hold it together. It's the seventh-grade-biology-class version of The Matrix; I see a thing...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/03/2026
6. And, of course, the newsletter ended with Chart Attack, various things culled from the wilds of the internet.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/03/2026
5. What we can learn from historic inflation patterns (not much).
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/03/2026
4. The overlap of Muskworld and the DOGE bros.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/03/2026
3. How incomes have shifted in the U.S. since the 1990s.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/03/2026
2. Two-party vote margins in Senate primaries are not predictive of the general.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/03/2026
1. Losing presidential candidates almost always get more votes in states they lost.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/03/2026
Time for a thread of what was in this week's newsletter! As always, you are encouraged to sign up for it. It's free! This week, the newsletter answered some questions. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-...
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The answers to five questions
I've been at this a while, gang, this business of looking at the world around me and wondering what patterns hold it together. It's the seventh-grade-biology-class version of The Matrix; I see a thing...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/03/2026
Some stuff from this week’s newsletter. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/03/2026
In this week's newsletter, I answer some questions: - Where do losing presidential candidates' votes come from? - Do Senate primaries predict the general? - Who worked for DOGE? - Does history forecast an inflation surge? And more! All for free. Right here: www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-...
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The answers to five questions
I've been at this a while, gang, this business of looking at the world around me and wondering what patterns hold it together. It's the seventh-grade-biology-class version of The Matrix; I see a thing...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 11/03/2026
Sign up for yourself! It's free! Out every Saturday morning. www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...
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Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries)
This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 11/03/2026
5. And, of course, the potpourri that is Chart Attack.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 11/03/2026
4. Fixing a lousy Fox News chart.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 11/03/2026
3. Data visualization, taken to its extreme.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 11/03/2026
2. Revisiting a 1939 New York Times article that noticed how winters were getting warmer.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 11/03/2026
1. Visualizing the hundreds of businesses that flow into Donald Trump's wallet.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 11/03/2026
A quick thread with some of the goodies in this week's newsletter. www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...
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Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries)
This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 09/03/2026
This week's newsletter centered on a visualization of the nearly 400 nested LLCs in which President Trump claims an ownership stake. It's … complicated. www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...
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Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries)
This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 08/03/2026
Really looking forward to those noon sunrises.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/03/2026
Inspired by ProPublica’s new database, I created a visualization of the nearly 400 LLCs that make up Trump’s business empire. That and more in this week’s newsletter. Read! Free! www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...
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Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries)
This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 02/03/2026
All that and more, all for free! Sign up and/or read more: www.howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-mad...
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This way madness lies, but you knew that
It's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to l...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 02/03/2026
6. And, as always, the potpourri that is Chart Attack.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 02/03/2026
5. When Americans started to sour on Israel.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 02/03/2026
4. A look at when Supreme Court justices got over their shyness enough to cross the street.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 02/03/2026
3. The relationship between race and age in America over time.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 02/03/2026
2. Some visualizations of the Epstein data dump.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 02/03/2026
1. A quick-and-dirty look at the start of the Iran conflict and Trump's non-effort to sell the public on it.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 02/03/2026
What you missed if you missed this week's newsletter: A brief thread.
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This way madness lies, but you knew that
It's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to l...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 28/02/2026
Went ahead and made a chart showing how much effort Bush put into making the case for war against Iraq in his 2003 SOTU compared to the effort Trump put into doing so for Iran this week. Read more: www.howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-mad...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 28/02/2026
The newsletter is out, with a special last-minute update on Iran polling. www.howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-mad...
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This way madness lies, but you knew that
It's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to l...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/02/2026
All that and more. All for free. Sign up! www.howtoreadthisch.art/may-your-lov...
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May your love be plotted logarithmically
Today, Feb. 14, commemorates the day St. Valentine drove the incels from Italy or something. It is to love what Oct. 31 is to fear, which makes it a bit nicer in theory but – in practice? Turns out ea...
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/02/2026
6. And Chart Attack, including this one that I made.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/02/2026
5. A visual look at analyses of the impact of tariffs.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 17/02/2026
4. Another reason Gallup might have given up on approval polling: approval polls don't really move much anymore.
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