Our favorite charts of 2024

Well, it was a year. And judging from Sherwood’s many charts, it was an interesting and eventful one. Before we begin 2025, I asked Sherwood writers to choose their favorites. Here are a selection of charts we made this year that are really important, really clever, or just really well liked by us. Some are simple line charts, while others are satellite images or in-depth interactives. All will hopefully make you look smart to your relatives this holiday season.

Forget the Magnificent 7: We coined the BATMMAAN stocks:

Donald Trump won the presidential election — and so did a federal immigration contractor and private-prison company:

Reddit is only the latest social-media company having its day in the sun:

The nation’s electric-vehicle charging goals are a long way off:

The Line Rider tries to stick the Fed’s soft landing:

Turns out, our food-shopping preferences are very regional:

It’s tough to be Elon Musk’s neighbor. Look what he did to an adjacent property in Texas:

The insatiable appetite for AI:

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta spent billions on artificial intelligence.

You were right: Meta’s Threads timeline was totally chaotic. We checked:

Hollywood ran low on new ideas:

How Sweetgreen charged $15 for salad and still lost money:

Jeans didn't go out of style, but the style certainly has changed:

OpenAI is worth... a lot of other companies:

Streaming has changed a lot about music, including the length of songs:

What an investment in Berkshire Hathaway actually includes:

Where did all the stocks go? Big tech ate a lot of little tech:

Friends are the new spouses when it comes to buying a home:

The pandemic darlings aren’t looking so hot:

This year you hedged your stocks with stocks, not bonds:

Chinese yields are signaling a depression: