Chart Appreciation: Driving Safety, in Fits and Starts

This is the first in a series of videos going into great detail on specific charts or news graphics. The first one is on a piece by Hannah Fairfield in the New York Times from 2012, called Driving Safety, in Fits and Starts. It uses a rather unusual visualization technique called the connected scatterplot and makes great use of it to show how cars have gotten safer over the years.

See also the related blog post!