How Many Households Are Like Yours?

The New York Times has a fun new interactive toy on their site that lets you define your family and see how many families are like in in the US.  It updates on the fly and shows lots of additional data like median incomes and historical data.

My family is similar to only 0.16% of all households.  How about yours?

How Many Households Are Like Yours? – Interactive – NYTimes.com.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .