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A real person reads every message. Corrections get priority.
Found a mistake?
Please write in. Errors get fixed within 48 hours of discovery, with a dated note on the affected page. Naming the page and the figure that looks wrong makes the fix much quicker.
Every chart page carries a method note listing its source, its licence and the date the data was pulled, so a disagreement can usually be settled against the original table.
Suggesting a dataset
Suggestions welcome. Two things decide whether it can be published:
- A licence that clearly permits republishing with attribution. Without written terms, it cannot go up.
- Numbers with a time dimension and enough rows to rank. Lone figures do not make a chart worth building.
Using a chart
No permission needed. Every chart page has an embed code, and it costs nothing to use. Keep the credit line visible and the link intact, and the chart is yours to publish.
Needing a different cut of the data, a custom size, or a static image for print? Ask. That is usually a quick job.
Advertising and sponsorship
Sponsor slots in the weekly digest will open once the mailing list has the numbers to justify a rate. Enquiries before then still welcome, and they will get an honest answer about the current audience size rather than an inflated one.
Advertisers get no say about which datasets get plotted, or about what any chart shows.
Press
Happy to supply higher resolution versions, the underlying table, or a short written explanation of a method. Email is the fastest route, and a deadline in the subject line will move a message up the queue.
What will not get an answer
- Guest post pitches and paid link placements. The site publishes charts built from data it holds, and links never go up for money.
- Requests to remove a chart because the numbers look unflattering. A factual error gets corrected. An inconvenient figure does not.