[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts II: Another 10,000 to come.

[Samson]

Alternative medals table

Spoiler Also by GDP, but I am not sure that makes sense :

 

[Arakhor]

I saw those charts myself. They're really quite interesting.

 

[Samson]

Nature review, Paper. I think they used "Algorithmically inferred gender of an author", but I have not actually read it.

 

[warpus]

Vacc. stats for the county I live in

For full context, the population of the whole county is around 500,000 people

@Samson Surely it would make more sense to weigh the gold medals higher than the silver, etc. It would probably only lead to minor changes on the list I guess

 

[Samson]

Should be normalised for population, but still interesting. I am surprised China is so dominant in sheep production.

From 20 meat and dairy firms emit more greenhouse gas than Germany, Britain or France

 

[warpus]

Does this count as a graph/chart? I was gong to put it in the football thread, but Canadian football isn't that important and I've written plenty about it there already, a place that doesn't get nearly as much traffic as here either.

Here's the bracket for this year's edition of the Voyageurs Cup AKA The Canadian Championship. It's a bit out of date, but that's okay

The winner of this tournament gets a chance to represent Canada in the CONCACAF Champions League, where the best teams from North America & The Caribbean compete for a chance to be called the best in the region.

For the longest time this tournament was a bit of a joke, with only 3 or 4 professional clubs in the whole country that could enter. That's because Canada is a very geographically spread out country, with most people living in a 100km or so strip near the American border. It's very expensive to set up a national league of any sort, so for a while we didn't really have that many professional teams..

That's all changed with the introduction of a new professional Canadian soccer/football league (The CPL). As a result there are now 13 clubs in this year's edition of the Voyager's Cup - the most ever. It still seems very tiny compared to something like the English FA Cup, but from a Canadian pov it's a great improvement over the 3-5 teams we had in this tournament for a while there. And with the CPL set to grow, and lower division leagues coming into existence and growing as well, this number is only going to grow going forward.

Another exciting addition recently were 2 new clubs from lower divisions - the champions of Ontario and the champions of Quebec. You will find this year's entrants on the right-hand side of the bracket: AS Blainsville, and Master's Futbol Academy

The main excitement for me as a fan is that you now have a lot more of a chance of a "minnow" to take out a much larger/richer club. That's already happened this year with Pacific FC eliminating the Whitecaps in the quarter final. Keeping in mind that the salary of a MLS side is about 10-20 times larger than an average CPL club, it is a big upset.. and in this particular case also a bit of a derby - Pacific FC's home is on Vancouver island, while the Whitecaps' home is just across the bay in Vancouver the city. Toronto FC squaring off against York United (they rebranded - the above graphic shows their old logo) is another derby - in this case both clubs are more or less based in the same city (Toronto).. although technically York United represents the entire York region (which is just north of Toronto proper).

Exciting times ahead for Canadian football, with our national side representing well on both the male and female side.

The reason this tournament is known as the Voyageurs Cup though, is because the trophy/cup itself is named after the fans. The Voyageurs are the main supporters group that shows at home and away matches with flags and banners, sits behind the net and makes a lot of noise.. It was the fans that came up with the idea for a cup, and so it ended up named after them

 

[Samson]

According the to new scientist (paywalled) the recent uptick in opiod deaths is more to do with fentanyl being so dangerous than overprescription (as the rules have become stricter since 2013, but deaths have gone up loads).

 

[warpus]

Somebody put together a chart of all the pieces required for Mars colonization, from a SpaceX POV. This is fan made and not official

 

[Samson]

Why hundreds of scientists are weighing in on a high-stakes US abortion case

 

[EnglishEdward]

Alternative medals table

Spoiler Also by GDP, but I am not sure that makes sense :

The lesson here is that if you want your country to do well per capita at the Olympics consider putting a Union Jack in your flag?

 

[Ferocitus]

The lesson here is that if you want your country to do well per capita at the Olympics consider putting a Union Jack in your flag?

And a crescent moon and star if you want to excel at pyjama cricket!

 

[really]

Jeff Bezos relative wealth in pixels:
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Samson]

What people in the UK spend their money on. My thoughts:

• I cannot get my head round the difference. The 1st says data is from the Office of National Statistics (ONS, official UK state data people) the rest are from the ONS web site.
• I spend more on housing and booze than most people, and loads less on other things. How do you spend twice as much on furniture and carpets than booze?

Interactive version on ONS website

Spoiler How that changes by income decile and spending with time :

 

[The_J]

• I spend more on housing and booze than most people, and loads less on other things. How do you spend twice as much on furniture and carpets than booze?

Try to move once and buy all the furniture new, including kitchen etc ^^. And then don't drink a lot .
Don't forget that it also includes washing machines, dryers, etc.

 

[Samson]

Try to move once and buy all the furniture new, including kitchen etc ^^. And then don't drink a lot .
Don't forget that it also includes washing machines, dryers, etc.

If you go to the ONS website and the interactive chart, you get a breakdown of household goods and services, £23 pw for "Furniture and furnishings, carpets and other floor coverings". Household appliances are only £3.80 pw. I do not think I have ever bought furniture new, that may have something to do with it.

 

[The_J]

Does it maybe include the floor itself?

 

[Samson]

Does it maybe include the floor itself?

I really do not think so.

 

[Arwon]

I spend more on housing and booze than most people, and loads less on other things. How do you spend twice as much on furniture and carpets than booze?

The expenditure is an average of all households. Some people will have spent a lot more than that in a given year, many others will have spent nothing.

 

[warpus]

It seems to me that the mean and not average would make sense to use in this case. That way you'd exclude all those extremes (of the super rich, etc.) from the data. It probably skews it somewhat if you go with average