Quite a number of fair and interesting charts…

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/4/13937032/obamacare-repeal-charts

https://www.brookings.edu/multi-chapter-report/vital-statistics-on-congress/

"Vital Statistics on Congress, first published in 1980, long ago became the go-to source of impartial data on the United States Congress. Vital Statistics’ purpose is to collect and provide useful data on America’s first branch of government, including data on the composition of its membership, its formal procedure (such as the use of the filibuster), informal norms, party structure, and staff. With some chapters of data dating back nearly 100 years, Vital Statistics also documents how Congress has changed over time, illustrating, for example, the increasing polarization of Congress and the diversifying demographics of those who are elected to serve."

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-take-your-vitamins/?ex_cid=538twitter

Both education and race link very closely with taking vitamin supplements, but they also link very closely with obesity and diabetes. For example, highly educated people are more likely to take vitamins but less likely to be overweight and have diabetes — and being overweight and having diabetes are associated with a host of health problems. This makes it virtually impossible to separate the impact of vitamins from the impact of these other variables. We know education and race are also very strongly linked to mortality rates. Given this backdrop, it is an almost insurmountable challenge to tease out any small impacts of vitamins.

https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/press/news/2016/12/11/WOTY-16

post-truth – adjective – Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

"Public spending can be divided into consumption and investment. Consumption spending goes for goods and services that produce benefits today, such as health care for the elderly or mowing the lawn on the Washington Mall. Investment is spending that will provide benefits in the future, such as scientific research or building a new highway or better educating children. While conceptually simple, the distinction between government consumption spending and investment spending is, as the White House Office of Management and Budget puts it, “a matter of judgment.”"

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/01/03/the-hutchins-center-explains-public-investment/

From "538":

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-52-best-and-weirdest-charts-we-made-in-2016/?ex_cid=story-twitter

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/29/pew-research-centers-most-read-research-of-2016/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=6c36d551ba-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-6c36d551ba-399726609

"Pew Research Center published 125 reports and more than 400 blog posts in 2016, covering a wide array of topics, from race and immigration, to the U.S. presidential election and religion. As the year draws to a close, we look back at our research that attracted the most readers, as measured by web visitors to our site."

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/maybe-spotify-isnt-killing-the-music-industry-after-all/

For their analysis, Waldfogel and Aguiar took Spotify at its word, and used the median per-stream point ($0.007) to estimate any new revenue generated through streaming. They found that revenue roughly offsets the revenue lost from any drop in sales. In other words, they think Spotify has had a revenue-neutral impact on the music industry, though whether Spotify has cut into artists’ earnings is a different question not directly addressed in this paper.

There is one thing Page and Waldfogel do agree about: legal streaming’s effect on piracy. In the working paper, the economists compared the growth of Spotify streaming to the weekly volumes of torrents for 8,000 top artists, using data from Musicmetric, a music analytics company. Every additional 47 streams displaced one pirated download, they concluded. The economists even cited Page’s own work showing Spotify lowered unpaid downloads. But as Waldfogel said, “reducing piracy is not the same as increasing revenue.”

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2016/12/how-to-cite-a-youtube-channel.html

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/21/16-striking-findings-from-2016/

"Every year, we publish a collection of facts about the important events, issues and trends we documented in our wide-ranging research over the past 12 months. In 2016, Pew Research Center examined an array of topics in America – from immigration to the growing divide between Republicans and Democrats – as well as many from around the globe. Here are 16 of our most striking findings."