Why subscribe?

A good chart can make a complicated subject easier to understand. A bad one can make weak evidence look convincing.

Five charts to start your day is James Eagle’s weekday guide to the charts that deserve a closer look. Each edition selects five visuals, checks the claim and explains the part a caption cannot: the context, the consequence and the limitation.

The subject can be markets, politics, technology, energy, society, science or sport. The constant is the visual argument and whether it helps a curious reader understand the world more clearly.

Free subscribers receive the lead chart and James’s commentary. Paid subscribers receive all five charts in each Monday-to-Friday edition and support the work of finding, sourcing and explaining them.

Every chart includes a link to its original source.