Visualizing 10 unusual causes of death in the CDC mortality database
Let me make two things clear right up front: The metrics I used to decide what causes of death are …
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most decade specific words in billboard
Most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 Chart first, then explanation (click to enlarge): The inspiration for this …
visualizing word and letter frequencies
Visualizing word and letter frequencies in Gadsby, a novel without the letter ‘e’ In 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright published the …
How often does a given letter follow another in English?
The following chart is an interactive heat map of the probability that, given the letter on the vertical axis in …
Mythological names are on rise pokemon
Mythological names are on the rise; Pokémon, not so much. As you can see, mythological boys’ names were pretty negligible …
Buck naked to butt naked arms to anus
Buck naked to butt naked, arms to anus, 19th century iPhones and other Google Ngram oddities This data set is …