One pound for them. Nine pounds for you. Happy Halloween. Watch out for flaming bags of dog poo on your doorstep.
Projects
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Data Underload #24 – My Candy
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Unemployment rates over this past year
I took a look at unemployment rates about a year ago, and I got to wondering if it's changed at all over the past year. Not really. It's still stuck in the 9 to 10 percent range, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It looks like it could be a while until things get better.
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Exploring the Reach of Firefox
Once every blue moon I like to freelance as a short break from school work, and a few months back... -
Do Movie Sequels Live Up to Their Originals?
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Data Underload #21: Exit Strategy
If my wife, the physician, has taught me anything, it's that everything that has to do with the human body has a medical term or classification for it - and I mean everything. The other day she came home and asked, "Have you ever heard of the Bristol Stool Chart?" I hadn't, so she described. It's classifications for dootie. I thought it was a joke, but there's a Wikipedia entry for it. Ergo, it must be true.
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Data Underload: One Thousand Posts
On June 25, 2007 I published the first FlowingData post. Today, here is the one thousandth. I asked what I should do for this special occasion and pretty much everyone said I should visualize the posts somehow, so here we go.
With the exception of the holiday gaps and the early months, I've managed to stay surprisingly consistent, yeah?
Thanks for reading, everyone. Gold star for anyone who remembers what FlowingData's theme color was in 2007.
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Data Underload #19: First Date vs. Reality TV First Date
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Data Underload #18 – Sleep Schedule
According to WebMD, for 1- to 4-week-olds: "Since newborns do not yet have an internal biological clock, or circadian rhythm, their sleep patterns are not related to the daylight and nighttime cycles. In fact, they tend not to have much of a pattern at all." I think somebody forgot to tell my internal clock to grow up.
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Data Underload #17: Famous Movie Quotes, p. 2
Carpe diem. Seize the data, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
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Watching the growth of Walmart – now with 100% more Sam’s Club
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Data Underload #16 – What’s that smell?
It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
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Data Underload #15 – Life Simile
You never know what you gonna get. Life is also known to be like: a box of crayons, a park, a taxi, the surf, falling in love, a bowl of cherries, or a slideshow.
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Data Underload #14 – Popeil Pitch
As corny as the Ronco infomercials are, you can't help but stop and watch late at night. It's all about the "set it, and forget it" showtime rotisserie. Here's to you, Ron Popeil. The man. The legend.
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Data Underload #13 – Corned Beef Recipe
For as far back as I can remember, I've always had corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day, or at least on the week of. There isn't a speck of Irish in my family, but for some reason my mom always made it, and now I make it myself.
I don't know the origins nor care enough to look it up on Wikipedia. All I know is that there will be three straight days of corned beef-related food, and that's good enough for me. Mmm, salty, beefy goodness. Reuben or corned beef hash anyone?
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World Progress Report is available – plus free College High
In case you missed your chance last time, I've got some good news for you. I have a handful of World Progress Reports left, so ordering is open again. I'll keep it open until I run out or until the end of next week - whichever comes first. All orders will also get a free print of Rob's beautifully illustrated College High.
I don't think the handful will last very long, so if you really want the WPR, plus College High, you should probably order now. Don't say I didn't warn you.
What it is
For those unfamiliar, FlowingPrints is a project to put data in print. I take openly available data and put it to use. The first run was a series on education in America. College High was part of the series.
The World Progress Report was the most recent print, highlighting what's going on in the world, using data from United Nations databases. No need to waste perfectly good data, I say.
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Data Underload #12 – Famous Movie Quotes
Here's looking at you, data point.
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Data Underload #11 – American Hockey
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Data Underload #10 – Daily Crossword
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Data Underload #9 – Big Graphic Blueprint
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Data Underload #8 – Unsolicited
A few months back, the Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) opened up a brand spanking new forum where people could discuss how they used the group's traffic data. They created an email list to tell everyone about the new forum. The problem is that PeMS used a single address to email everyone. So when someone "replied all," he would in turn email every single person on the list.
What followed was a long thread of emails that (entertaining) morning. This is that email thread. It got ugly quick (and kind of inappropriate towards the end). Let this be a lesson to you site administrators.
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Why I want to quit cable
Cinemetrics creates a visual fingerprint for movies
Vehicles involved in fatal crashes
World subway paths at scale
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