Trendiest baby names in social security
Trendiest baby names in the Social Security database (determined with an analytical chemistry technique) A few attempts have been made …
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Graphing Problematic Aspects of us baby
Graphing the problematic aspects of the U.S. Baby Names dataset Every time I post about the popular U.S. Social Security …
Animated map of earthquakes near China and Japan, 1970-2013
If you prefer, you can watch this as a GIF or on YouTube. The animation above shows all earthquakes with epicenters in the …
Pi vs. tau: Ultimate Smackdown
Spoiler alert: there’s only a 0.1% chance any given 1-800 number will be found in pi or tau. What’s tau, …
The five commandments (and fifteen footnotes) of data visualization
The five[1] commandments[2] of data visualization[3] I’m nobody special in the world of data viz; I have no profound observations or innovations …
Skyrocketing of boys names ending in ‘n’ is not reflected in the most popular names overall
In 2007, arguably the foremost statistician-cum-maven concerning the U.S. Social Security Administration’s baby name database, Laura Wattenberg*, appears to be …