Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...

A case filed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky against Purdue Pharma sheds new light on the origin of an infamously misleading chart showing that OxyContin stays in patients' blood levels over time, ...

Wrapping your head around the scale of a global pandemic is not easy, and the volume of stats and data can be bewildering. What, for instance, are we to make of the fact Australia recorded just 109 ...

A tweet directed me to an interesting article on world population. The author, Jonathan Good, asks the percentage of people who have ever lived that are alive today and then estimates the answer. The ...

Before federal judge Robert N. Chatigny decides whether to overturn the ban on Purdue Pharma's former CEO and chief legal officer from doing business with the federal government because of the damage ...