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✊ Behind the Unions: 11 Million Strong

One in ten U.S. workers belongs to a union — over 11 million people across education, healthcare, logistics, and entertainment. Just five groups hold 75% of that total.

Full context and history in the union story.

🏠 Housing Price Cut Cycles (2020–2025)

Five years of price‑cut cycles: pandemic spikes, post‑rate‑hike cooldowns, and seasonal lows. See how your state’s housing market compares to the national average.

🛢️ Oil Prices – The Seasonal Connection

From winter lows to summer surges — oil prices have long danced with the seasons. This visual compares per-gallon pricing by season since 2019, alongside a full-history view reaching back to the 1980s.

While 2025 began with a spike, recent months show a cooldown across the board. It's a reminder that energy markets move in rhythms — but history still leaves its fingerprints.

🏠 Real Estate Closing Times – Fastest vs. Slowest States

How long does it take to close a deal? This visual breaks down the average number of days from listing to close over the past year — comparing the national trend to two extremes: Alabama (fastest) and New York (slowest).

The map shows closing speed by state, while line charts reveal seasonal shifts and deviations from the national norm. Whether you're buying, selling, or just Zillow-browsing with intent, this snapshot tells you where things move fast... and where they don’t.

🐄 U.S. “Other Livestock” Export Value by State (2023)

This state-by-state heatmap shows 2023 export totals (in hundreds of millions) for the USDA’s broad “Other Livestock” category — including farmed game, goats, and exotic animals.

Kentucky dominates, but California, Texas, and Ohio also show surprising volume in an often-overlooked slice of the U.S. ag economy.

🌍 Market Popularity by State

Which states are most actively engaging? This filled map uses Bamlytics' scoring system to visualize where attention is peaking across the U.S.

🍬 Top Flavor Boosters

Which flavors make Halloween candy irresistible? According to FiveThirtyEight’s ultimate candy power ranking, chocolate leads the pack, with fruit and nuts following close behind.

Based on the FiveThirtyEight candy dataset (MIT licensed).

📚 Everyone Loves a Good Horror

Horror barely makes a blip — just 0.45% of over 2.2 million books analyzed from Open Library. Either readers crave more scares, or publishers are afraid to print them.

Genres grouped manually for clarity; data sourced via Internet Archive.

🪩 Stayin’ Alive: Disco’s Spotify Revival

The 1970s are alive and well on Spotify. Bee Gees and Earth, Wind & Fire still dominate streaming charts, proving disco never really left — it just traded vinyl for playlists.

Analysis based on the top 70 disco tracks from the 1970s cross-checked with modern Spotify popularity scores.

📺 Nielsen Streaming Giants

From animated pups to crime dramas, this chart highlights the most-watched U.S. streaming shows by total minutes viewed. Bluey leads with 25 billion minutes — proof preschoolers never sleep — while Law & Order: SVU holds down the crime beat at 14.5 billion.

Full context and breakdown in the Nielsen ratings story.

💥 Who Is the Strongest in the Marvel Universe?

This chart compares the strongest Marvel characters by estimated lifting power. Hulk smashes. Data proves it.

🧈 Always Bet on Butter

Crab, butter, and Red Lobster all rise and fall together — but one thing stays true: butter always wins the Google Trends throwdown.

This playful analysis mashes culinary craving with data curiosity. Peak crab season? Better stock up on butter — the charts agree.

🎬 Al Pacino: 55 Years of Cinema

From The Godfather to House of Gucci, this chart tracks 38 films across five decades of cinema. Pacino didn't just age with Hollywood—he helped define it.

This visual is both tribute and timeline — a celebration of the characters, chaos, and charisma that made Pacino a generational force.

🍼 Degrees of Bacon, Berry, Hamm & Cheese

A lighthearted but real pop culture graph project that maps actor connections through IMDb data. Yes, we built the Baconverse.

From Halle Berry to Jon Hamm to a legitimate actor named “Cheese,” this chart proves that pop culture is one strange, delicious web.

🎥 George Takei – A Life on Screen

From Star Trek to animated features and everything in between — this visual tracks the 33-movie career of George Takei across six decades of cinema.

It’s not just a timeline. It’s a story of cultural presence, resilience, and how one man turned science fiction into personal truth.

🎞️ Stanley Tucci – 77 Films and Still Climbing

Stanley Tucci’s filmography is a masterclass in versatility — from scene-stealing side roles to powerful leads, across drama, comedy, and big-budget franchises.

This visual tracks 77 movie appearances over nearly four decades. For fans of character acting and quiet cinematic excellence, Tucci is the north star.

🍔 Wendy’s Growth Across America

From a single square-pattied dream to thousands of locations—this short animation shows the regional rise of Wendy’s in the U.S., with state-by-state store counts and a nod to the brand’s iconic milestones.

Download the full bundle: Wendy’s Timeline Project (.zip)

🔍 Top 7 Trending: Last 24 Hours (June 21–22)

A real-time snapshot of U.S. search behavior. We compared volume spikes and consistent interest levels to find out who's catching attention and who's holding it.

🌟 Strawberry Moon Births by State

A playful take on natal astrology meets census logic. We plotted U.S. birth estimates during the full Strawberry Moon to reveal where these lunar legends are most concentrated.

🐅 Tiger Populations – Top 10 Countries

Only 5,600 tigers remain in the wild — three‑quarters live in India, while smaller populations fight for survival across Russia, Indonesia, and beyond.

🐝 Bee Colony Loss (2023–2024)

Pollinators in peril: quarterly bee colony counts reveal consistent losses of 7–11%, threatening ecosystems and food supply chains.

👩‍⚕️ Future Nurse Demand (2022–2031)

By 2031, the U.S. will need nearly 2 million new nurses — that’s 193k new RNs graduating every year to meet healthcare demands.

🧂 Salty by Nature

Louisiana leads U.S. salt production with ~20 million tons, most of it headed for icy highways and chemical processes. Food-grade salt? Just 10% of the total.

Data compiled from U.S. geological and industrial sources; volumes approximate annual production.

🥑 Avocado Economics

Data never looked so green. This Bamlytics visual dives into seasonal trends and pricing patterns in everyone's favorite toast-topper.

⚡ Power by Source

Not all watts are created equal. This chart compares the average cost of power generation across energy types, from coal to wind to nuclear.

🎃 Pumpkin Season Prep

Bamlytics delivers a cozy autumn breakdown of how pumpkin-spiced products infiltrate the American psyche—and palate.

🍣 Sensei vs. Chef

A playful yet pointed visual that contrasts corporate lean philosophy with real-world frontline adaptation—who's really running the kitchen?

🧠 Mental Health Recovery – 2020 to 2024

Based on millions of survey responses from the Household Pulse Survey, this visual explores the rise — and gradual fall — of elevated mental health risk across the U.S. from 2020 to 2024.

While the national trend improved sharply post-2021, signs of a plateau are showing in 2024. States like West Virginia, Nevada, and Arkansas made major gains — while Vermont and New Jersey lagged behind.

🐶 Shelter Stats – Dogs, Data, and a Dash of Hope

Over 2 million dogs were adopted in both 2023 and 2024 — even as fewer dogs entered U.S. shelters. This chart highlights the balance shelters struck, with intake volume dropping but adoption rates rising.

Data can tell stories of rescue too. From total volume to shelter counts to percentage shifts, this snapshot is proof that compassion and capacity stayed strong.

🕊️ Nobel Peace Prize Timeline (1901–2024)

A century of global recognition — from Bertha von Suttner’s 1905 win to Narges Mohammadi’s 2023 fight for women’s rights. This timeline marks each Nobel Peace Prize year with a name that shaped the world.

Peace isn’t a moment. It’s a pattern. This visual was built to honor that pattern — one name, one year, one hope at a time.

📍 U.S. Census Gender Trends — And Why I’d Relocate to Seattle

This dashboard dives into metro-level gender ratios across the U.S. — with a soft spotlight on Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue as a balanced, thriving option for relocation.

From evergreen vibes to equal-opportunity dating odds, Seattle just might be the Goldilocks metro for modern life: not too big, not too skewed, and full of potential.

🚩 Colors of the World’s Flags

White dominates global flags, appearing on nearly 700 designs, followed by yellow and green. Purple? Rare — just 88 flags feature it.

Analysis of 1,146 flags and 12 total colors across national, regional, and cultural emblems.

🍽️ Michelin Star Map – U.S. Restaurant Guide

An interactive pinpoint map of Michelin-rated restaurants across the U.S., using official location data and live geocoordinates. Filter by location, zoom in by city, and use the embedded legend to see 1⭐, 2⭐, and 3⭐ rankings in style.

Michelin’s prestige is global — but this map makes it local. Use it to plan a trip, compare culinary hotspots, or just see who’s plating stars.

Download the full data and map bundle: Michelin Stars U.S. Bundle (.zip)

🏀 BamPick’Its: My Dream Team Based on 2024 NBA Stats

If you were an NBA owner, who would you pick? This visual builds a dream team based entirely on 2024 stat leaders — not hype. From Tyrese Haliburton’s assists to Tatum’s league-topping value, these picks make the case with data.

This is how I'd draft. No biases. No drama. Just value per position and numbers that back it up.

🙌 Dodgers & Spanish Anthem — LA Culture Signals

Singing the National Anthem in Spanish at Dodger Stadium? That’s not controversy — that’s community.

• ⚾ Nearly 50% of LA County identifies as Hispanic or Latino
• 🎤 One of the largest Spanish-speaking populations in the U.S.
• 🧂 Cultural pride echoed from dugout to upper deck

When Nezza took the mic, she wasn’t making headlines — she was reflecting the heart of the crowd.