So I’ve always loved to watch strong defensive teams. Hence the reason I can’t help but love watching the Ravens and Steelers play in addition to my home-team; the Arizona Cardinals.
I also happen to love charts and statistics, so when I saw this post over at “Behind the Steel Curtain” attempting to analyze the defenses of 2010, I couldn’t resist the urge to at least make an attempt at analyzing it over the course of the past decade.
Google has released a remarkable toy for history buffs and armchair sociologists: The so-called Google Ngram, which allows you to see how often a given word has been used in books, ever since 1800.
Oh man, this is HILARIOUS when you know exactly one person to fit in every single alignment. Chaotic Good, for the record.
If you call Connecticut home, your standard of living and economic opportunities are almost two times better than that of someone in West Virginia. That basic inequality shouldn’t be news to any American who’s spent a day outside. But rarely has it been put in such a stark visual form. The images here are screenshots from a sweeping interactive data visualization by Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson for the American Human Development Project. The infographic maps something called the American Human Development Index — a rough, one-stop measurement of quality of life across America based on things like education, life expectancy, and income — and lets you compare it to a raft of other factors, from political activity to local homicide rates. Think of it as a medical chart from the nation’s annual physical — one that reveals some serious health problems.
via Kurt White
Looks like we have a theme going today. Any more “America, fuck yeah!” charts out there? If you find a good one, feel free to submit it here. Fuck yeah!
I hate the “standard”/”imperial” system of measurement.
A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government’s budget.
Can someone slip a copy of this into each representative’s pocket?
If you’re gay, you might want to rethink a job at ExxonMobil. Better yet, ExxonMobil might want to rethink its policy on gays. The big-oil biz tied with Philip Morris International as the lowest ranking companies in this tremendous multi-part infographic on how LGBT-friendly the top 100 Fortune 500 corporations make their workplaces. Designed by Tiffany Farrant for Meet The Boss TV, the data visualization ranks both individual businesses and entire sectors, drawing up a black-and-white picture of tolerance in corporate America today — of who has embraced LGBT diversity and who still acts like Stonewall never happened.
Cold season is upon us, and the constant advice you will hear from doctors and friends it to keep washing your hands. Everyone claims they do, but do they really? A recent study found that although most people claim to wash their hands after dirty activities, when you observe them in person, the story (especially for men) is a little different.
SOURCE The American Society for Microbiology and the American Cleaning Institute
Americans spend many hours in traffic each year, slowly crawling between work and home. And while most commutes are unpleasant, some are far more congested. Why? A new study by CEOs for Cities has found that what creates traffic jams isn’t more cars and fewer highways, it’s sprawl. This is a look at the 10 metropolitan areas whose citizens spend the most and least extra time in traffic due to sprawl, out of 51 cities studied.
SOURCE: Driven Apart by Joe Cortright for CEOs for Cities.
I take exception to Phoenix not being displayed, we have tremendous sprawl in the “Valley of the Sun”
Illegal immigration is much more complicated issue than the usual dichotomy of “Illegal immigrants are destroying our country” versus “Illegal immigrants play a vital role in our economy.” Before we even embark on the discussion, we need to know who we’re talking about.How many illegal immigrants are there, where are they from, and how do they fit in to the economy?
