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Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Worldmapper is a huge collection of interesting cartograms - maps with countries resized according to different factors. Those who like visualizing data can waste a lot of time looking through this repository.
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Best statistics question ever
Here's a simple question to get the old noodle working. Think about it for a while before reading the comments.
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How Americans Die
Americans die in smaller portions each year, but what kills us is changing.
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Nobody lives here: The nearly 5 million Census Blocks with zero population
A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As of the 2010 census, the United States consists of 11,078,300 Census Blocks. Of them, 4,871,270 blocks totaling 4.61 million square kilometers were reported to have no population living inside them. Despite having a population of more than 310 million people, 47 percent of the USA remains unoccupied.
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Rape Victims Are Common. Rapists Are Not.
The White House spent this week rolling out its task force for combating sexual violence on campus, and part of the campaign has been to routinely cite the claim that 1 in 5 female college students is sexually assaulted during her time in school. There was an immediate pushback from media sources like The Laura Ingraham Show and the Daily Caller, as chronicled by Media Matters, calling the White House statistics on campus sexual violence "bizarre," "fraudulent," and "ridiculous."
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See How Popular Your Name Will Be in the Future
Popular names follow a familiar cycle: They become increasingly common as new parents jump on the bandwagon, only to peak and decline as everyone on the playground starts answering to the same name. Some old standards lie dormant for half a century before gradually returning–hello, Evelyn. Others skyrocket and decline in a few years (that’s you, Miley).
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Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide: WHO
Alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide each year, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and violence combined, the World Health Organization said Monday, warning that booze consumption was on the rise. Including drunk driving, alcohol-induced violence and abuse, and a multitude of diseases and disorders, alcohol causes one in 20 deaths globally every year, the UN health agency said.
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Stop forcing people to wear bike helmets
They don't make biking that much safer — and probably do more harm, by taking bikers off the road.
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Typical heroin user in America is a white woman in the suburbs
Fifty years ago researchers reported that the average first-time heroin user is a 16-year-old of color, but now a study says that a typical user is more likely a 23-year-old white woman from the suburbs.
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The weird Google searches of the unemployed and what they say about the economy
If you really want to know how the economy is doing now, just Google it. At least that’s the goal of a growing number of researchers who are turning to big data in hopes of unlocking the secrets of the economy at the speed of the Internet. The movement — dubbed “nowcasting” — is piquing the interest of policymakers in Washington and around the world frustrated by the long lag in official government statistics as they make decisions where timing is everything.
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The 28 Most Infuriating (TRUE) Statistics You Don't Know
Numbers don't lie, which makes them even more infuriating when those numbers are delivering some not so great information.
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Captain America Statistics Song
America used to be renown around the world for its vibrant economy, advanced healthcare, and strong education system. Sadly, we have fallen a bit from those good old days. In honor of Independence Day, Animation Domination sings the Captain America Statistics Song to explain just how bad things have become in a fun song. Happy Fourth of July
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The Heartbreaking American Pit Bull Statistics Everyone Needs to Know
The most ubiquitous dog in the U. S.—the dog in whose face we see our collective reflection—is now the pit bull. Which makes it curious that we as a culture kill as many as three thousand of them per day.
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Most popular baby names: The top 20 boys and girls names in England and Wales
Forget Paul, Rachel and Simon, today’s babies are more likely to be called Bentley, Angel and Junior. Ordinary names are falling out of fashion as parents turn to increasingly quirky choices to make their children stand out from the crowd, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
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30 Years Of Music Industry Change In One GIF
Everybody knows the music industry has undergone monumental change in the past 30 years. How much change? This handy GIF from Digital Music News, which breaks down revenue according to medium (adjusted for inflation) will show you.
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The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation
Last year, a pair of researchers from Duke University published a report with a bold title: “The End of the Segregated Century.” U.S. cities, the authors concluded, were less segregated in 2012 than they had been at any point since 1910. But less segregated does not necessarily mean integrated–something this incredible map makes clear in vivd color.
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Why Sports Need Randomness
Noah Davis talks to David Sally, one of the authors of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong, about how uncertainty affects and enhances the games we watch.
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How Advanced Stats Are Breaking Hockey's Tough Guy Culture
Following a hiring binge of analytics-minded staff in the NHL, hockey's culture of violent masculinity might be on the verge of a game-changing shift.
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How Do TV Ratings Work?
The future of your favorite TV shows hinges on their ratings – but what is a rating, and where does it come from?
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Understanding the Monty Hall Problem
The Monty Hall Problem is a counter-intuitive statistics puzzle: There are 3 doors, behind which are two goats and a car...
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