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I know, I know, and you didn’t get me anything.
Well, you’re giving me your attention, which should be gift enough.
Here’s a video with a few demos:
There’s basically no difference...
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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...
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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...
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More dataviz fun — also, NY lost a Congressional seat because Cuomo killed 89 too many people.
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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...
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Some dataviz fun.
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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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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...
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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%...
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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...
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