What’s Going On in This Graph? | Nov. 12, 2025
What trends do you notice? What questions does this graph raise for you?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Nov. 5, 2025
What do you notice about how much it costs the U.S. government to make a penny, nickel, dime and quarter? What questions does this graph raise for you?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Oct. 29, 2025
How do girls and boys compare in school?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Oct. 22, 2025
What do you notice about this graph? What do you wonder?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Oct. 8, 2025
Have you ever heard a sonic boom? Can you imagine what it might be like to hear one every day?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Oct. 1, 2025
How much is a dollar worth?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Sept. 17, 2025
The following graph shows the top five summer movies by domestic revenue for 2019 and 2022-25. How did this summer compare to previous years?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Sept. 10, 2025
This graph tells a story about butterfly populations over time. What is happening, and why?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | April 9, 2025
Note: We will host a live-moderated discussion about this graph on April 9. There will not be live moderation on April 2.The three graphs above, and the four graphs below, were previously published in The New York Times and have been selected from 19 graphs in the related article. The graphs came from the State…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | March 26, 2025
Note: We will host a live-moderated discussion of this graph on March 26. There will not be live moderation on March 19.In 2018, Dr. Yinon M. Bar-On, a geophysicist, and his colleagues synthesized data from numerous sources plus some educated guesstimates to calculate the Earth’s mass of “living stuff” (biomass) and the earth’s mass of…


