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Every major league ballpark, by the games it has hosted, 1876-2025.

Fenway finishes top on 8,933 — and only led from 2001.

Sportsman's Park led for 68 years: the Browns and the Cardinals shared it, 154 games a year. It closed in 1966.

#baseball #dataviz
October 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Orbital launches from every spaceport on Earth, one year at a time, 1957-2025.

Plesetsk — which the USSR didn't admit existed until 1983 — led the world for 18 straight years. It peaked at 70 launches in 1977.

It flew 9 times in 2025.

#space #dataviz
October 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Italy and France have swapped the world wine lead 27 times since 1961. Spain has taken it once, in 2013.

1979 was the closest: Italy 85.1m hectolitres, France 84.4m — and the most wine the world has ever made.

Data: FAOSTAT.

#wine #dataviz
October 15, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Every F1 win since 1950, by the country on the winner's licence.

No Italian had won since 2006. Kimi Antonelli has won 8 this year, and Italy leads 2026 — first time since 1953.

23 countries have won a race. F1 has raced in 34. None in Asia.

#f1 #dataviz
October 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Every NHL goal since 1917, by the country the man who scored it was born in.

Canada scored 331 of the first 342. Last season it scored 42% — 3,423 to the USA's 2,283.

43 countries have scored one, Indonesia and Tanzania included.

#nhl #dataviz
October 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Every NBA three-pointer, 1979-80 to now.

Ray Allen held the record for 11 seasons and played in four of them. Reggie Miller held it 13 and was retired for five.

Curry ends on 4,248 — more than the whole league made in the line's first three seasons.

#nba #dataviz
October 14, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Jerry Rice has the most all-purpose yards in NFL history. He leads this race for 4 of its 297 games.

He catches a kick returner — Brian Mitchell, retired 74 games before Rice passed him by eight yards.

Mitchell gained 106 a game, Rice 79 — in 77 more games.

#nfl #dataviz
October 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Career postseason hits, 1884-2025, while the LCS are on. Stops at 2025.

Jeter: 200 hits in 158 games, a whole 200-hit season.

He didn't out-hit Pete Rose, though — Rose got 86 in 67 games, 1.28 a game to Jeter's 1.27. The lead moved because October grew.

#mlb #dataviz
October 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Every Nobel Prize in Chemistry since 1901, by the country the laureate was born in.

Germany leads from 1927 to 1971. The USA goes ahead in 1972 and leads from 1974 on. Germany finishes third, 26 to 60.

Four of Poland's five are German chemists.

#nobelprize #dataviz
October 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Hurricane Isaias came ashore in Florida on 9 October. Fitting: Florida takes 41 of the 92 US hurricanes that land in October or later.

But through August, Texas leads the whole record 43-39. The season moves east as it ages.

#hurricane #dataviz
October 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Brett Favre threw 336 interceptions, more than anyone ever.

He doesn't lead this race until game 239 — where he and George Blanda were tied on exactly 272.

Six of the ten men on the closing board are in the Hall of Fame. It's a longevity record, pointed the wrong way.

#nfl #dataviz
October 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
150 seasons of major league walks.

Babe Ruth leads from 1930 and holds it 71 years. Rickey Henderson ends 2000 two walks behind — 2,060 to 2,062 — and passes him in 2001.

Bonds finishes on 2,558. 688 were intentional. Henderson drew 61.

#mlb #dataviz
October 12, 2026 at 2:04 AM
In 1980 Montana had the best-represented voters in America. The 1990 census took away one of its two House seats and gave it the worst: one member for 799,065 people.

It won the seat back in 2020 and went straight to last again. Leading this race is bad news.

#census #dataviz
October 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Paul Krause intercepted 81 passes, a record that has stood since 1979.

Ed Reed intercepted 64 — and ran 405 more yards with them.

Career interception return yards, 1960-2026. Krause averaged 14.6 a return; Reed 24.8, and he owns the two longest interception returns in NFL history.

#nfl #dataviz
October 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Every country that grows coffee, on a world map, 1960/61-2025/26.

Angola was third in the world in 1961/62. It finishes 38th of 40, on 45,000 bags — about 1% of its 1972/73 peak.

Vietnam now out-grows all fourteen African countries on the list put together.

#coffee #dataviz
October 11, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Terry Sawchuk took the NHL's all-time wins record in 1961 and held it for 39 seasons. He was dead for 30 of them.

Patrick Roy ended 1999-2000 one win short — 445 to 444 — and had to come back and take it the next October.

Brodeur finishes on 691.

#nhl #dataviz
October 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Every Nobel Peace Prize given to a person, on the map of where they were born, 1901-2025.

For 59 years it never left Europe and the Americas. Albert Lutuli, 1960, was the first laureate born outside them.

Oceania is dark from start to finish.

#nobelprize #dataviz
October 10, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Only twelve states have ever taken a major hurricane. Massachusetts last took one in 1869. Georgia in 1898.

Years since a category 3 came ashore, state by state, 1851-2025. Alabama's clock reads 21 years, Mississippi's 20.

#weather #dataviz
October 10, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Aaron Rodgers has been sacked 612 times, more than any quarterback ever, and he's still playing.

He doesn't lead this race until game 247 — where he and Russell Wilson were tied on exactly 570.

Randall Cunningham leads it for 155 games and finishes last of ten.

#nfl #dataviz
October 9, 2026 at 7:47 PM
75 years of Nielsen ratings, raced by the seasons each show spent in the top 30.

Ed Sullivan leads the sixties. Gunsmoke leads longest: 19 seasons, 17 of them after it was off the list.

60 Minutes arrives in 1976, never misses a season, finishes on 49.

#tv #dataviz
October 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
The NFL career punting record is 71,211 yards. That is about 40 miles.

Jeff Feagles doesn't lead this race until game 338 of 352. At game 337 he was 21 yards behind.

He has the worst average on his own top ten. He just never missed a game.

#nfl #dataviz
October 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Wichita Falls, 10 April 1979: one F4 tornado injured 1,740 people in an afternoon.

Texas ended 1978 fifty behind Indiana, and 1979 ahead by 1,763.

Every F3+ tornado's injured, by state, 1950-2025. In 2021 Texas and Alabama were six apart.

#tornado #dataviz
October 8, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Kick returns came back: 587 in 2023, 2,076 in 2025 after the touchback moved to the 35.

So: every man's return yards since 1960. Brian Mitchell ends on 19,013 — more than Emmitt Smith ever rushed for.

He doesn't lead until game 174.

#nfl #dataviz
October 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Every MLB season since 1892, raced by home attendance.

The New York Giants led it 41 straight years. The Yankees took it in 1948. The Dodgers went ahead in 1973 — by 421,400 — and never gave it back.

241 million through their gates.

#baseball #dataviz
October 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Orbital launches by rocket family — one year at a time, not added up. 1957 to 2025.

The R-7 led the annual count for 33 straight years and its best was 63.

Falcon 9 did 165 in 2025. The whole world's best year before 2021 was 139.

#space #dataviz
October 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM