[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Mise]

That's a pretty stark difference isn't it. Though I think I would prefer it if the % women was along the bottom.

 

[madviking]

That's a pretty stark difference isn't it. Though I think I would prefer it if the % women was along the bottom.

 

[Mise]

Thanks. It's less obvious that there's a big difference now.

 

[Borachio]

I'm baffled. I can't see any difference.

 

[metatron]

Thanks. It's less obvious that there's a big difference now.

Yeah, because our ancestors, our eyesight, stuff...

Try this:

As you can see i took the liberty to point out how the graph is obfuscating rather than pointing out the essential point to be made here.
I had to make a few judgement calls with the Vermont Republicans. So it may be 19% or 21 or whatever.

 

[metatron]

Oh, damnit... i got confused with the numbers there.* The line for the Idaho Democrats has to go some place way further to the right. It's outside the whole thing, so i do have an excuse for not fixing it...

Thought the numbers (i had blurred with the stretching) went up in 5% steps. In case you care: 7 out of 13 - so 53% and change or something.
One shouldn't do these things without coffee.
My bad.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[KMRblue1027]

Spoiler :

 

[Murky]

Spoiler :

http://www.pbl.nl/en/infographic/gl...on-from-fossil-fuel-use-and-cement-production

Co2 emissions per region in 2012.

 

[strijder20]

So CO2 emissions would be declining when we'd ignore the developing countries?
Ouch. And it's really unfair (in a sort of way) to deny them the development we had a century ago.

 

[Cutlass]

So CO2 emissions would be declining when we'd ignore the developing countries?
Ouch. And it's really unfair (in a sort of way) to deny them the development we had a century ago.

That's the claim they make for doing nothing. And there's some justice to it. However, there are 2 other factors to consider. 1) We didn't know then, we do now. 2) Technology has changed. They do not have an actual need to be that dirty to develop.

 

[Arwon]

The expansion is almost entirely China from eyeballing that. Is it flattening off yet? Hard to tell. Chinese coal use is supposed to peak during the current five year plan so you'd expect emissions to slow.

Though of course it should also be remembered that they have nearly twice as many people in that wedge as the EU and US, so it should be bigger and will likely never get to the per capita emissions that those places have had.

(It's also wrong to assume developing countries and particularly China are "doing nothing", but the situation they're operating in is rather different)

 

[Terxpahseyton]

This chart is awesome.
Thank you!
Though one has to wonder - socializing is separated from a lot of activities which may very well coincide with socializing.

 

[tokala]

Chinese coal use is supposed to peak during the current five year plan so you'd expect emissions to slow.

China would cut total consumption of the fossil fuel to below 65 percent of primary energy use by 2017 under the new plan, down from 66.8 percent last year.

from this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-china-coal-pollution-idUSBRE98B01N20130912

in other words: coal use will continue to increase parallel to overall energy consumption, just a tiny bit slower.

 

[Monsterzuma]

There’s never been an America, but rather several Americas—each a distinct nation. There are eleven nations today. Each looks at violence, as well as everything else, in its own way.

The precise delineation of the eleven nations—which I have explored at length in my latest book, American Nations—is original to me, but I’m certainly not the first person to observe that such national divisions exist. Kevin Phillips, a Republican Party campaign strategist, recognized the boundaries and values of several of these nations in 1969 and used them to correctly prophesy two decades of American political development in his politico cult classic The Emerging Republican Majority. Joel Garreau, a Washington Post editor, argued that our continent was divided into rival power blocs in The Nine Nations of North America, though his ahistorical approach undermined the identification of the nations. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer detailed the origins and early evolution of four of these nations in his magisterial Albion’s Seed and later added New France. Russell Shorto described the salient characteristics of New Netherland in The Island at the Center of the World. And the list goes on.

The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps—including maps showing the distribution of linguistic dialects, the spread of cultural artifacts, the prevalence of different religious denominations, and the county-by-county breakdown of voting in virtually every hotly contested presidential race in our history. Our continent’s famed mobility has been reinforcing, not dissolving, regional differences, as people increasingly sort themselves into like-minded communities, a phenomenon analyzed by Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing in The Big Sort (2008). Even waves of immigrants did not fundamentally alter these nations, because the children and grandchildren of immigrants assimilated into whichever culture surrounded them.

http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html

Descriptions of the "nations" are behind the link.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The short version: "geek" is more about arts while "nerd" is more about sciences.

 

[Arwon]

From Matt Cowgill's Twitter account:

"If you convert OECD countries’ wages to a common currency based on their purchasing power, here’s what they look like:"

And probably of less interest, "Here’s how Australia’s minimum, median, and mean full-time wages have changes over time, in real terms:"

 

[strijder20]

I didn't know we were better off (both on equality and minimum wages) than the Netherlands here in Belgium.

 

[Traitorfish]

http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html

Descriptions of the "nations" are behind the link.

Where do you suppose he got the impression that foreign immigration the East coast ended in 1760?

(edit: In fact, the more I look at this, the less sense it makes. It's significant that the New Englanders were Calvinist, but not significant for the Scots-Irish; the ethnic diversity of European settlers is necessary to understanding the former British North America, but is irrelevant in "New France"; the lack of government institutions was significant in the Appalachians, but not so in backwoods New England; the short-lived Dutch colony in New York is crucial, but the ten gazillion other ethnic groups that have arrived there since don't figure. And black people just don't exist? Honestly, it seems like he's committing the same ahistoricism he accuses Joel Garreau of, constructing flattened, artificially-homogeneous regions in terms of average attitudes towards present day issues of national-level significance, he's just packaged his regions with contrived and kinda weirdly Volkish creation-myths.)

 

[Monsterzuma]

Where do you suppose he got the impression that foreign immigration the East coast ended in 1760?

idk, but part of his theory is that freedom of movement reinforces the existing social and ethnic order by having people move from anywhere in the US to wherever they'll be most welcome.