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Data Visualization: People and Books in 1946
by meep
In which I find some nifty color graphs in a book from 1946 about reading habits of the American public.
Sunday Sumo: Some Winning Moves on the Middle Day
by meep
Looking over sumo results from nakabi, the middle day, of the May 2023 Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo — and Tochinoshin’s retirement. Trying out stats from the Sumo Database and some graphs.
Choices Have Consequences: Public Pension Investments in Alternative Assets
by meep
This is the culmination of the “choices have consequences” series.
The prior posts:
- Retirement Policy
- Retirement Age
- Retirement Benefit Design – COLAs, Replacement Rate, Indexing, and More
- Funding (or, rather NOT funding) Public Pensions
- Pension Obligation Bonds
I’m linking the prior posts as a starter because I’m arguing with others...
Labor Day 2022 Gift: Public Plans Projection Tool Update!
by meep
I know, I know, and you didn’t get me anything.
Well, you’re giving me your attention, which should be gift enough.
Video explainer
Here’s a video with a few demos:
A screenshot
There’s basically no difference...
One Bad Year? Comparing the Long-Term Public Pension Fund Returns Against Assumptions
by meep
As I noted a few weeks ago, we’re getting the reports on pension fund fiscal year results on the asset side.
WSJ: Market Rout Sends State and City Pension Funds to Worst Year Since 2009
Public pension plans lost a median 7.9% in the year ended June 30, according...
Meep's Data Visualization Evolution: Tile Grid Maps
by meep
Obviously, I’m a numbers nerd.
Most people aren’t, but humans have a powerful processor in the visual cortex in which we naturally can intuit all sorts of quantitative relationships, if only the data visualization designer does a good and honest job.
I’ve worked on becoming more effective in data visualization for many...
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...
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