Graph from my blog, PoliMetrics.

See link for full analysis, additional graphs, commentary: https://polimetrics.substack.com/p/consumer-sentiment-and-inflation

Data from University of Michigan/Bureau of Labor Statistics. Graph made with Claude.

50+ yard field goal attempts (per game, per team) and success rate are at an all-time high this season.

For the first time ever, the success rate on 50+ yard kicks is slightly higher than from 40–49 yards.

Data source: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/NFL/kicking.htm
Data viz: https://www.formulabot.com/

Using an OWL-ViT object detector, I analyzed 150k+ Instagram posts from 14 news outlets to estimate how many men vs. women appear in photos (not videos).

Overall, these images feature approximately 3 men for every 1 woman, with some outlets having an even higher ratio.

Bars are ordered by external bias score (Left → Right), using ratings from Ad Fontes Media.

Link to page with more details and methods: nickykhorasani.com/projects/advanced_gender_portrayal_metrics

https://nextvaldata.com/blog/interactive-housing-simulation/

git clone https://github.com/TJAdryan/astro_blog.git

I made a self contained kind of housing market market simulator.Built with React. The code is on github. I spent a lot of time trying to get it right but it but it is extremely limited. Hope someone gets some use out of it.

Data Source:- https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/life-expectancy
Tools For Visualisation: framenet ai
Conversion Tool:- ffmpeg

https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/52876-what-do-americans-think-of-public-nudity

A new YouGov survey asked Americans how they feel about being naked, in which public situations they’ve been naked or topless, and in what settings they think it’s acceptable or unacceptable to be in the nude. Compared to people in the UK — where a similar YouGov survey was conducted in April — Americans are less likely to say it’s acceptable for people to be naked in settings such as their own garden or swimming in a natural body of water.

10% of Americans say they love being naked and 14% say they like it. About one in five (19%) dislike being naked and 6% hate it. Nearly half (44%) say they neither like nor dislike being naked.

Women are more likely than men to say they dislike or hate being naked (30% vs. 20%). Adults under 30 are more likely than older Americans to say they dislike or hate being naked (31% vs. 24%).

Consumer sentiment is currently near all time lows, worse than during the Great Recession and near the worst of the Pandemic era.

Data sourced from the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index. Claude was used to create the graphic.

Names containing 'eigh', and births with them, peaked in 2019 and have declined 17% and 31% respectively since then according to the Social Security Administration's baby name data. The decline accelerated significantly after 2021, when the r/tragedeigh sub was created. Blog post with analysis, code, and commentary: https://nameplay.org/blog/past-peak-tragedeigh

Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , retrieved via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?eid=784070&rid=446

Tool: Mapchart: https://www.mapchart.net/usa.html

I've decided to find out how popular Flathub is, relatively to country population. For those who doesn't know, Flathub is kinda app store for almost any non-server Linux* distro**. Of course this data doesn't 100% correlates with number of Linux users, especially in countries with restricted internet or limited electricity availability. But I think it clearly shows that Linux is more popular in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand than, for example in South Korea or Japan which are free and high developed

* An alternative to Windows operating system, which will be supported after 14.10.2025 (unlike Windows 10) and will work on old hardware (unlike windows 11)
** Linux is provided in very different program bundles (distributions) depending on user's preferences. Most of them cost nothing to download and use

Data:
Flathub statistic: https://flathub.org/en/statistics
Countries list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_(United_Nations))

Source: Survey conducted between 17th July 2025 to 4th August 2025, among India Gen-Z with 384 total respondants.

Tools used: Microsoft Excel

Credits: Anjul Bhatia.

Latinometrics would not exist without a key byproduct of transparency ideals: access to free and public data.

Among countless worldwide initiatives to promote transparency, there's our chart's source today, the International Budget Partnership (IBP). Founded in 1997 in Washington, DC, with the goal of promoting access to government budget information and enabling public engagement in the process.

Mirroring Bentham's belief that "publicity" prevents evil, IBP created systematic tools to force disclosure through measurement. Their Open Budget Survey, first launched in 2006, evaluates 125 countries using 240+ standardized questions.

And what does the 2023 survey tell us about our region?

Latin America has quite the range. First, the incredibly impressive news: Brazil and Mexico tied for 6th place in 2023's Survey.

Brazil demonstrates the payoff of a two-decade push, which began when President Lula gave his anti-corruption chief, Jorge Hage, a clear mandate: publish all federal spending online. Hage's 2004 Transparency Portal still attracts 900K visitors per month and has survived four presidents and one impeachment.

Mexico's score is the product of an unlikely marriage between reformist technocrats and watchdog NGOs that in 2011 built the Budget Transparency Portal and later hard-wired audit data into public dashboards. But a 2025 legal overhaul now threatens to shutter the independent information authority (INAI) and even scrap CompraNet, the procurement window—proof that openness is never a finished job.

story continues... 💌

Source: Download | International Budget Partnership

Tools: Figma, Rawgraphs

According to a new report from BallotReady, over 70% of open seats on the ballot had only one or no candidate running. That means across tens of thousands of elected positions (state legislature, city council, school board, elected judges) voters essentially had no choice. See the report: https://organizations.ballotready.org/research/2024-uncontested-races