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Map of countries aligning with China
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
Using an analysis from Focaldata, the Guardian used the angled arrow approach to map countries that shifted towards China’s voting patterns between 2024 and 2025. By measuring how closely eac…
Feb 23, 2026, 12:35 PM
Impact of tariffs on cost of goods
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
One year into these tariffs, Ana Swanson for the New York Times has the charts. On prices: Unsurprisingly, tariffs pushed up the prices of imported goods last year. Economic tracking shows that pri…
Feb 4, 2026, 10:14 AM
Trump family crypto accumulation
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
In 2023, most of the family’s wealth, about 79% of it, was tied to real estate. These days, a growing portion belongs to cryptocurrency endeavors. For Bloomberg, Annie Massa and Tom Maloney r…
Jan 26, 2026, 1:17 PM
Losing American data
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
For Bloomberg, Molly Smith reports on the state of government data: But Trump has made it clear that some data collection simply didn’t align with White House “priorities” that no longer include “w…
Jan 14, 2026, 12:04 PM
Job cuts for every federal agency
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
Based on November data released by the Office of Personnel Management, the federal workforce is 220,000 workers fewer in this administration. For the New York Times, Emily Badger, Francesca Paris, …
Jan 12, 2026, 4:43 PM
Trump business network spreads
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
For the Wall Street Journal, David Uberti, Juanje Gómez, and Kara Dapena mapped 268 of the known ventures, holding companies, and products that the president uses to grow his network while in offic…
Dec 19, 2025, 5:58 PM
Growing political contributions from billionaires
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
The Washington Post examined political contributions from the 100 wealthiest Americans, which have shown big swings the past few years. What changed? Republicans long characterized Silicon Valley a…
Dec 1, 2025, 12:24 PM
Name mentions in Epstein email cache
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
Congress released a cache of Jeffrey Epstein’s email threads. For the Wall Street Journal, Brian Whitton, John West, and Kara Dapena show name drops through a series of beeswarm charts, with …
Nov 18, 2025, 6:57 PM
Fired BLS chief on how the day happened
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
Erika McEntarfer, the former chief for the Bureau of Labor Statistics made her first public appearance since the abrupt firing. For Bloomberg, Molly Smith reports: On Aug. 1, several hours after he…
Sep 22, 2025, 5:29 PM
Real polling asks real people, unlike synthetic sampling
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
Synthetic sampling uses models to “survey” fake respondents. G. Elliott Morris and Verasight compared real polling data against the synthetic variety to find that the latter is error-pr…
Sep 10, 2025, 11:04 AM
Commissioner for Bureau of Labor Statistics appointed
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
Molly Smith reports for Bloomberg on the appointing of EJ Antoni to head the BLS. Antoni has been vocal about recent estimate revisions. Antoni came on Bannon’s podcast shortly after the latest job…
Aug 12, 2025, 2:55 AM
President wants to exclude noncitizens from Census counts
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
Hansi Lo Wang reporting for NPR: The 14th Amendment requires the “whole number of persons in each state” to be included in a key set of census numbers used to determine how presidents a…
Aug 7, 2025, 9:02 PM
Predecessor to fired BLS commissioner says firing is damaging
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
The prior commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics had some things to say about the recent firing of Erika McEntarfer. For Bloomberg, María Paula Mijares Torres and Catherine Lucey report: “…
Aug 4, 2025, 8:29 AM
Pesky statistics
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
For the Atlantic, Alexandra Petri on the president’s approach to data: And now, at last, Donald Trump has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Once these disloyal statisticians a…
Aug 4, 2025, 7:27 AM
Commissioner of Labor Statistics fired, because labor statistics were not to president’s liking
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
The administration disagreed with the jobs count released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, so the administration is firing the commissioner. For NPR, Scott Horsley reports: U.S. employers added j…
Aug 1, 2025, 11:21 PM
Nominee to lead NOAA prioritizes hiring people
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
Eric Katz reporting for Government Executive: Staffing at the National Weather Service will be a top priority for Neil Jacobs if the Senate confirms him to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
Jul 11, 2025, 11:04 AM