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Geeking Out: Census Numbers for Apportionment Released -- Let's Visualize!
by meep
More dataviz fun — also, NY lost a Congressional seat because Cuomo killed 89 too many people.
Mortality with Meep: Ranking the States (and NYC and DC) by Excess Mortality
by meep
Death data for 2020 are mostly there for all states, so let us look at how hard each was hit for the full year. The CDC’s update of 31 March 2021 in their excess mortality dashboard has total numbers available for almost all geographies through the end of...
Geeking Out: House of Representatives Apportionment Visualization 1910-2010
by meep
Some dataviz fun.
Geeking Out: Florence Nightingale, Data Visualization Pioneer - and Redoing Her Famous Graph
by meep
I was going to pep myself up by doing some current mortality graphs, but let me improve my mood even more by looking at historical mortality graphs.
Five years ago, I was explaining to my grandma why she was seeing more obits for people 20 years younger than her compared...
Geeking Out: GDP By Country and Recent COVID Mortality Data
by meep
It’s Valentine’s Day, so let me do something I love! Fixing graphs! And complaining about North Carolina!
A friend shared the following on Facebook:
I saw that and I had some immediate questions:
1. Why is the most recent actual shown from 2008?
2. What are the different orders of...
Mortality with Meep: Comparing COVID-19 and 2020 Total Death Rates Against U.S. Historical Rates
by meep
In my prior post on COVID death impacts, Mortality with Meep: Comparing COVID-19 with Historical Mortality and Prior Pandemics , I looked solely at the total number of deaths and the percentage change in those deaths year-over-year.
The result: total deaths for 2020 is likely about 10%...
A Contrast in COLAs: Social Security vs. Illinois
by meep
The leaves have changed color (or completely fallen off the trees) so that means it’s time for the Social Security Administration to announce the COLAs (cost-of-living adjustments) for benefits in 2021:
PLANSPONSOR: Social Security Announces COLA for 2021
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will...
Mortality with Meep: U.S. Excess Deaths Related to Covid Update to August 27, 2020
by meep
I have loads of COVID-related mortality to lay on y’all, and no, I’m not doing a video (yet). It is much faster for me to write an extremely long post than to get a video together.
So a post it is.
The current shape of mortality in the United States
Public Pensions Quicktake: Pension Underfunding vs. State GDP
by meep
Recently, Equable put out a report on public pensions in the U.S. called State of Pensions 2020.
Most of the graphs and conclusions they draw are not unusual to me, especially one line that came out of their press release that many places covering the report glommed onto: by meep
Before I jump into this, I miss the days where I could figure out numbers about “suspicious” Dominican deaths. Or suspicious deaths of Russian men. Man, those were the days. So let’s get to it… …um, prepare to count the deadMortality with Meep: On Florida COVID Deaths and Reporting Lag
Looking at Florida...
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