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2025-11-28 01:02:05

Mapped: Thanksgiving Travel by Airport in 2025

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Thanksgiving remains one of the busiest travel periods in the United States, with millions of passengers moving through airports nationwide.

This visualization uses data from Amadeus to map out where air traffic is rising the most—and where it is falling—across 100 airports for Thanksgiving week 2025 compared to 2024.

Thanksgiving Air Travel Across the U.S. in 2025

The key trend in Thanksgiving air travel for 2025 is that smaller regional airports are experiencing surges in arrivals while major hubs are seeing notable pullbacks.

The data table below shows the year-over-year change in scheduled Thanksgiving week arrivals for 100 U.S. airports. Thanksgiving week is defined as the period from November 25th to December 2nd.

Across the dataset, changes range from a 111% surge at Long Beach Airport (LGB) to a 26% decline at Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE).

While Thanksgiving week air bookings in 2025 have increased 4% compared to last year, mid-sized and secondary airports have seen 9% growth, suggesting travelers are being more deliberate about their destinations as they try to avoid congestion.

West Coast Airports Lead Thanksgiving Arrivals Growth

The strongest growth appears at several California airports. Long Beach (111%), Oakland (84%), and Burbank (39%) rank as the top three increases in Thanksgiving airport destinations in 2025.

These gains suggest that travelers are favoring secondary West Coast airports, especially as San Francisco International Airport sees a 2% decline.

Sacramento Executive Airport (SAC) and San Diego International Airport also both feature a notable 31% rise in 2025 compared to last year’s Thanksgiving week.

Providence’s Theodore Francis Green Memorial State Airport (PVD) posts a 35% increase—one of the stronger gains outside the West Coast.

Thanksgiving Travel Declines Concentrated in the Southeast

The steepest declines in Thanksgiving arrivals in 2025 compared to last year are primarily across Southern airports.

Columbia (CAE) sees a 26% decline, followed closely by Greensboro’s Piedmont Triad (GSO) at -24%.

Other airports such as McGhee Tyson (TYS) in Tennessee, Syracuse Hancock (SYR) in New York, and Charlotte Douglas (CLT) in North Carolina also show double-digit decreases.

Overall, some of the country’s largest airports are seeing significant declines, like Atlanta International Airport (the world’s busiest airport in 2024) expecting 6% fewer arrivals compared to last year.

Other major airports with declines include Dallas/Fort Worth (-2%), Denver International (-11%), and Philadelphia International (-13%), all of which expect significant drops in Thanksgiving travel in 2025.

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2025-11-27 23:41:00

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Ranked: AI Hallucination Rates by Model

Key Takeaways

• Many of today’s AI models struggled when asked to identify and cite news sources from an excerpt, producing frequent errors.
• The highest overall AI hallucination rate was 94 % for Grok‑3, indicating nearly all its answers were incorrect.

Does your AI always give you the right answer? Unfortunately, its “truth” may be an illusion.

This infographic breaks down AI hallucination rates by model. It’s a preview of the brand-new executive guide from Terzo and Visual Capitalist, AI’s Illusion of Truth: The Data Behind AI Errors.

What are AI Hallucinations?

An “AI hallucination” refers to cases where a language model presents information as fact even though it is false or ungrounded. 

These hallucinations happen because standard training systems reward guessing over showing uncertainty. Think about it this way: if you guess on a multiple choice test, you are more likely to get it right than if you give no answer.

AI Hallucination Rates: The Best and Worst Models

To measure AI hallucination rates, researchers presented models from leading AI companies with news excerpts. They then asked the models to identify the original article, publication, and URL. 

Notably, the researchers specifically chose excerpts that, if pasted into a traditional Google search, returned the original source within the first three results.

The models’ responses were then checked for accuracy. Below, the table shows how often each model got an answer partially or entirely incorrect.

AI Model	Hallucination Rate
Perplexity	37%
Copilot	40%
Perplexity Pro	45%
ChatGPT Search	67%
Deepseek Search	68%
Gemini	76%
Grok-2 Search	77%
Grok-3 Search	94%

Source: Columbia Journalism Review, March 2025. Responses where no answer was provided were not considered a hallucination.

Grok‑3 had the worst performance, hallucinating 94% of the time. Perplexity, by contrast, delivered the most accurate answers. 

Notably, paid models fared worse than their free counterparts. Most models failed to express any uncertainty in their answers, despite frequent errors.

Risks & Implications for Business Leaders

For company executives, the takeaway is clear. It’s risky to take an AI model’s answers at face value. Assuming output is accurate without verification can lead to many negative outcomes:

• Reputational damage
• Financial losses
• Legal exposure

With AI agents, where every action builds on the last, the consequences of AI hallucination can compound quickly. That’s why leaders need strategies to keep humans in the loop, verify output, and use a model that’s built on trusted company data.

See the data behind AI’s errors and how to get 99% accuracy in the free executive guide, AI’s Illusion of Truth.

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2025-11-27 21:08:59

Mapped: The Average Hourly Wage by U.S. State

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U.S. workers earned an average of $35.06 per hour in 2024, an 8.8% rise in real terms since 2015.

Yet there are wide disparities across states. Average real wages in Washington, D.C. are almost double those in Mississippi. Meanwhile, California’s average, at $39.50, is lifted by the concentration of high-paying jobs in the tech sector.

This graphic shows average hourly real wages by state, based on data from the Economic Policy Institute.

Ranked: Average Hourly Wages in 2024

Below, we show a state-by-state comparison of average real wages in America:

As we can see, Washington, D.C. ranks first, boosted by its share of government employees.

In 2024, federal employees made up 25% of its workforce, with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice employing the highest number of workers.

Massachusetts follows next, with an average hourly wage of $41.36. The state is known as a hub for biotechnology and engineering, where high-paying jobs are prevalent. Additionally, it is home to Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute for Technology, which produce some of the top-paid college graduates in the country.

Ranking in third is Washington, at $41.07. With a minimum wage of $16.66 in 2025, it has one of the nation’s highest. Overall, five of the top 10 states by average real wages are in the West.

On the other hand, Mississippi and New Mexico had the lowest wages in the country. This highlights clear regional differences in salary outcomes in the U.S., driven by lower economic output and lower-paying industries. Moreover, both states have some of the highest rates of extreme poverty, disproportionately affecting minorities and people of color.

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2025-11-27 19:03:11

Mapped: Global Real Estate Bubble Risk in 2025

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Globally, real estate markets have been cooling over the last few years, with high mortgage rates and unaffordable prices affecting demand in many cities.

However, while housing bubble risks have eased across many markets, home prices in real estate hotspots like Miami and Tokyo continue to rise, inflating their bubble risk.

This infographic shows the cities with the highest bubble risk worldwide based on the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2025.

Where Housing Markets Look Most Overheated

UBS’ Real Estate Bubble Index evaluates housing markets around the world using a range of indicators, including price-to-income ratios, price-to-rent ratios, and trends in mortgage lending and construction activity.

Cities are classified into three broad categories based on their index score:

• Bubble Risk: >1.5
• Overvalued: 0.5 to 1.5
• Fairly Valued: -0.5 to 0.5

Below is the full 2025 ranking of cities by UBS’s Bubble Index score, along with the annual real price change:

The majority of cities in the index saw their bubble risk decline since 2024, with Toronto and Hong Kong experiencing the largest drops.

However, bubble risk rose in Miami, which ranks highest with an index score of 1.73, supported by rising home prices. Tokyo and Zurich also sit above the critical 1.5 threshold.

Meanwhile, several real estate markets fall into the overvalued range but remain below the bubble-risk territory. These include Madrid, which saw the strongest rise in real home prices, up 13.6% from 2024 to 2025.

Dubai is another notable city in the overvalued bucket, with prices rising by over 11% year-over-year. According to UBS, average real prices in Dubai have grown by around 50% over the last five years. However, prices could potentially cool off in 2026 following a record increase in supply.

Where Real Estate Bubble Risk Declined in 2025

Several housing markets are undergoing corrections after the post-pandemic uproar in prices.

Toronto, one of the world’s most unaffordable housing markets, has seen its bubble risk score fall sharply, accompanied by a -7.5% real home price decline. Hong Kong saw an even larger drop in price levels, at -7.9%, pushing it into the fairly-valued category.

Other cities, including Vancouver, Frankfurt, London, and San Francisco, also reported price declines as affordability constraints and higher borrowing costs weighed on demand.

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2025-11-26 23:47:01

Mean vs. Median: Visualizing Net Worth in the U.S. by Age

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The relationship between age and wealth offers insight into how financial security builds over time. In this graphic, we compare the mean and median household net worth across age groups, showing how dramatically the two averages can differ.

Due to extreme wealth (e.g. the presence of billionaires), the mean average paints a more optimistic picture than what most households actually experience. As a result, looking at both averages side by side gives a more complete view of American wealth.

Data & Discussion

The data for this visualization comes from Empower. It compares the average net worth by age in America.

How Net Worth is Calculated

Net worth is the total value of your assets minus your liabilities. Here’s a summary of what the Federal Reserve includes under each category.

Assets include:

• Cash within bank accounts
• Investment accounts and life insurance policies
• Retirement accounts, including IRAs and 401(k)s
• Value of real estate and vehicles

Meanwhile, liabilities include:

• Mortgages
• Home equity lines of credit or home equity loans
• Credit card balances
• Installment loans, including personal loans, auto loans, and student loans

The Difference Between Mean and Median

Across every age group in the dataset, the mean net worth is larger than the median. For example, Americans in their 40s have a mean net worth of $743,456, yet the median sits at just $75,719.

This is because the mean is calculated by adding up all of the values in a dataset and dividing the total by the number of entries. As a result, very wealthy households pull the overall numbers upward.

On the other hand, the median is calculated by ordering all values from lowest to highest, and then selecting the middle one. This can be interpreted as a more realistic measure because it ignores the influence of a small number of extremely wealthy households.

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2025-11-26 21:06:29

Mapped: Wage Growth by State (2024-2025)

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Real wage growth in the U.S. has become a central focus as inflation and new tariffs continue to strain Americans’ purchasing power.

Nationally, between July 2024 and June 2025, the nominal average wage rose from $1,200 to $1,250 per week—a $50 increase, or 4.2% growth. After adjusting for inflation, real wages grew 2.5%, giving workers about $30 more in weekly purchasing power.

This map highlights how each state performed in the 12 months ending June 2025, showing where workers are gaining purchasing power, and where they are still falling behind. The data for this visualization comes from USAFacts.

States Leading Wage Growth

Idaho and Mississippi top the nation, with real wages rising 6.7% and 5.0%. Both states have seen rapid population inflows and tight labor markets, contributing to stronger wage pressures.

Other high-performing states, including Georgia, Vermont, and Kansas, also recorded gains above 3%.

Moderate but Positive Growth Across Much of the Country

A large portion of states saw real wage gains between 1% and 3%. This group includes major population centers like Texas, Florida, Virginia, and Colorado.

Steady job creation and cooling inflation have helped wages outpace consumer prices in these areas.

Where Wage Growth Is Falling Behind

Eight states recorded negative real wage growth, meaning inflation outpaced pay increases. New Hampshire, Tennessee, and the Dakotas saw some of the largest declines, reflecting weaker labor market conditions.

New York and Michigan also posted modest decreases, suggesting ongoing economic transitions are weighing on earnings. These pockets of decline stand out against the broader national trend of improvement.

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