My first year or so at the Post I did kind of a goofy quiz thing called #NameThatData. It involved me making a chart or other data visualization and stripping most of the identifying information off it, and you, the readers, fighting amongst yourselves over what the chart showed until finally, with a flourish of my quantitative cape, I revealed the true nature of the data to the wonder and enlightenment of all.
It’s time to bring #NameThatData back, I think. You deserve it. I deserve it. The data deserve(s) it. So here’s how it’ll work, at least for now: you can find this week’s Mystery Chart below. You get NO HINTS, because I think you guys will figure this one out. Comments are open for everyone, so feel free to drop your guesses in the comment section below (newsletter readers I believe you’ll have to click through the headline to get to the website to do this).
Here’s the catch, though: the answer will be revealed to PAID SUBSCRIBERS ONLY on Monday, when I’ll do a proper post around the chart and talk about what it means and why you should care. The rest of you will have to wait until next Friday, when the next #NameThatData goes live, to get the answer.
A whole week! Boy that sure is a long time. It’s an especially long time to be consumed by the mystery of the chart below, obsessing over the forbidden knowledge that can only be obtained by paying 6 dollars a month or 60 a year for a subscription to The Why Axis, the internet’s leading source of lighthearted data quizzes and charts about floppy peens. As it turns out, you can put a price on knowledge!
Now it’s time to test yours.
See (some of) you on Monday!
% of U.S. population expecting Armageddon?
Tough one!
The proportion of the U.S. population that lives in Wyoming?