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Cost of Hurricane Harvey </h1>
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<p>Kevin Quealy for The Upshot <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/01/upshot/cost-of-hurricane-harvey-only-one-storm-comes-close.html">charted the estimated cost of Hurricane Harvey</a>, along with the cost of storms past, going back to 1980. I like the animated bands for the Harvey estimates &mdash; kind of like a neon light.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in the data, <a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/events/US/1980-2017">you can grab it from NOAA</a>.</p>
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<h4>A Day in the Life of Americans</h4>
<div class="excerpt"><p>I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person&#8217;s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.</p>
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<h4>Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data</h4>
<div class="excerpt"><p>Due to budget cuts, there is no plan for an updated atlas. So I recreated the original 1870 Atlas using today&#8217;s publicly available data.</p>
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