Here is a truly HUUUGE arrangement of the top 400 words in @realDonaldTrump’s tweets. If two words are close together they tend to be more closely associated in the President’s tweets. Enjoy these golden or, depending on your politics, pee colored dots representing terms in Trump’s tweets a bit before the 2016 election. Data: The […]
Read MoreThe US federal elections commission, as part of their mission to enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), publishes information about every political donation to candidates seeking federal office. Candidates are required to keep records of the name, address, occupation, and employer for each donation. There is also a $2,700 limit on individual contributions to […]
Read MoreThe graph below shows how common various finishing moves were in each year of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) competition. The vertical axis is the proportion of fights that ended with a given move and the horizontal axis simply shows the year. First double click and then single click to turn on or turn off each […]
Read MoreThe correlation is strong with this one (r = 0.74)! The IQ data comes from a study conducted on 34 countries, between 2002 and 2006, by professors Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. The study has been criticized for its small sample sizes. Lynn and Vanhanen extended their results beyond the original 34 countries to neighboring […]
Read MoreJoe Rogan famously described one of MMA fighter Anderson Silva’s fights as a “Ballet of violence.” The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is by far the biggest promoter of mixed martial arts (MMA) events. Yes, there is a ton of violence in these fights. But when learning about the endless array of strategies and techniques fighters […]
Read MoreAn arrow going from one drug to another means that at least half of the major side effects of the first drug are also major side effects of the second drug. A major side effect is one that requires a patient to visit a doctor immediately. Large scale drug studies can uncover many rare side […]
Read MoreThe top 10 mountain peaks are labeled with their height. The data is from a Kaggle data set. I made the visualization with the python libraries pandas and Basemap.
Read MoreOccupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor that keeps track of work safety issues. In particular they document work related fatalities. I took OSHA’s blurbs for each workplace death that occurred between October 1st, 2015 and September 30th 2016, filtered out less meaningful words and formed […]
Read MoreIn 1807 the British parliament passed the Slave Trade Act which formally ended British participation in the African Slave Trade. In an attempt to suppress the African slave trade, starting from 1808, the British Navy’s West Africa Squadron intercepted slave ships bound for the continent of America. In total, 91,491 slaves were found. The table below […]
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