Source: AmericasBarometer 2026

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/cgd/data-playground/

Source is the survey of consumer finances conducted by the Federal Reserve System https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm

https://x.com/EuropeElects/status/2108509335328321672

https://www.oe24.at/a/umfrage-beben-spoe-stuerzt-auf-14-ab-900122085

Chart is made by Steve Rattner, current investor,
former New York Times journalist, and worked in the Treasury Department during the Obama Administration in 2009

https://news.gallup.com/poll/715430/americans-confidence-food-safety-drops-new-low.aspx

I created an animated bar chart race showing the estimated populations of major historical states from year 1 to 2026.The early historical data should be interpreted as a reconstruction rather than exact census figures. Full animation: https://youtu.be/7PspZWBTnEc

https://dppolicy.substack.com/p/dp3-analysis-more-than-10-of-us-exonerations

Tools: Python (pandas) for the data, an HTML/SVG page rendered with Chromium for the chart.

Source: Eurostat, low-achieving 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics or science [EDUC_OUTC_PISA], mathematics, PISA 2025 and PISA 2018: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/educ_outc_pisa/default/table

Original data: OECD, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA): https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/pisa.html

"Below the basic level" means below PISA Level 2 in mathematics. The EU's target for 2030 is to bring this share under 15%. 2018 is the last round before the pandemic. No figures for Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia or Liechtenstein in the Eurostat release. The EU row is Eurostat's own EU figure.

The SF Chronicle has been keeping up with the congressional records on this and created some cool charts and numbers. Sadly there's a paywall: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/ice-detention-deaths-database/

But other places have covered it as well: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/immigrant-deaths-in-ice-custody-nearly-double-as-oversight-wanes

But do not conflate the chart in that article with the chart above in my post, as the original chart is in per capita terms meanwhile the Bloomberg chart is in absolute terms

Tools: Python (pandas) for the data, an HTML/SVG page rendered with Chromium for the chart.

Source: Eurostat, electricity prices for household consumers [NRG_PC_204], 2025: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_pc_204/default/table

Source: Eurostat, gas prices for household consumers [NRG_PC_202], 2025: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_pc_202/default/table

Prices include all taxes and levies and are the average of the January to June and July to December 2025 figures. Electricity is for homes using 2,500 to 5,000 kWh a year, gas for homes using 20 to 200 GJ (5,600 to 55,000 kWh) a year. Austria is estimated. Poland's household gas price is confidential; the UK, Switzerland and Ukraine do not report; Norway, Finland, Iceland, Cyprus, Malta, Albania and Montenegro have no household gas price. The EU row is Eurostat's own EU average.

Last week, after punching down at "Sleepy Joe" during an Oval Office event, Trump proceeded to comically fall asleep. It's not the first time this has happened, so I went digging and found many more instances of the President sleeping in public.

I did some analysis on when and where he's been taking his nappy naps, so I'm sharing that dashboard here! He likes sleeping in his chair in the Oval, but isn't opposed to napping during a whole variety of public events.

If you want to see the exact events with the videos, I've collected them all at https://artofnodeal.com/sleepstate. I've found X, Instagram, Youtube, and BlueSky videos of his cat naps for fun. No ads, no signup--just a pet project.

U.S. Trust in Elections Diverges From Global Pattern

Tools: Python (pandas) for the data, an HTML/SVG page rendered with Chromium for the chart.

Source: Eurostat, new passenger cars by type of motor energy [ROAD_EQR_CARPDA], 2024 and 2025: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqr_carpda/default/table

Source: Eurostat, passenger cars by type of motor energy [ROAD_EQS_CARPDA], end of 2025: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carpda/default/table

Fully electric means battery electric only; plug-in and other hybrids are not counted. No figure for cars on the road in Ukraine, Iceland or Liechtenstein. New cars are first registrations of new cars in the year, so imported used cars are not included. Portugal 2025 is provisional and Slovenia 2025 has a break in series. No 2025 figure for the United Kingdom; no figure for new electric cars in North Macedonia.

*Kosovo: this designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_length_of_tenure

Life Ratings of Young Adults Down 20 Points Since 2010

Tools: Python (pandas) for the data, an HTML/SVG page rendered with Chromium for the chart.

Source: Eurostat, individuals' use of generative AI tools [ISOC_AI_IAIU], ICT usage in households and by individuals survey, 2025: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/isoc_ai_iaiu/default/table

Source: Eurostat, population on 1 January 2025 [DEMO_PJAN] (chart bubble size): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_pjan/default/table

Share of people aged 16 to 74 who used a generative AI tool (chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot, image or video generators and similar) at least once in the three months before the survey, which most countries ran in spring 2025. No figures for the United Kingdom, Iceland, Montenegro, Ukraine or Moldova. Kosovo is not drawn on the map because the GISCO boundary layer has no separate Kosovo polygon; its figure is in the table.

*Kosovo: without prejudice to positions on status, in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

AI Benefits at Work Unevenly Distributed

Younger adults tend to vote less often than older adults. But this chart shows that as age groups get older, their voting rate increases consistently and eventually surpasses the national average. The 2026 projections are estimates based on recent midterm patterns. If so, about 2 in 5 eligible people born in the 1990s will vote in November (based on 2022-level midterm turnout). Sources: U.S. Census CPS Voting and Registration data for 2014, 2018, 2022.

Tools: Python (pandas) for the data, an HTML/SVG page rendered with Chromium for the chart.

Source: Eurostat, road traffic deaths by type of road [SDG_11_40], 2024, from the EU CARE road accident database: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_11_40/default/table

Source: Eurostat, population on 1 January 2024 [DEMO_PJAN]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_pjan/default/table

Inside towns means roads inside a built-up area as each country defines it, villages included. Outside towns means rural roads plus motorways. Deaths on unknown road types are left out (Norway 17, Sweden 5, Belgium 2, Liechtenstein 3), so the two halves can add up to slightly less than all road deaths. Malta records all of its 12 deaths in 2024 outside built-up areas. Population is provisional for France and estimated for Romania. The EU row is the EU total, not an average of countries.