[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Heretic_Cata]

Or they were about american politics.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Spoilered for size.

Elderly population by county and then state. The middle and FLA being solid red, otherwise I don't know if there is much of a pattern. But other generalizations posted in this thread about the right aren't really accurate either (or even worse).

Spoiler :

Wisconsin, where everyone owns a brewery? How am I not surprised?

We do drink alot, but 'breweries per capita' may surprise you.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Spoiler :

 

[aronnax]

Man that's messed up.

That chart on sex and relationship is very cool though.

 

[downtown]

I guess it's not so much rich but non-poor. From what I gathered the poor vote in a remarkably similar way throughout the US, while the non-poor differ from blue to red states.

I think that depends on how we define poor I guess. For those who live substantially below the poverty line, I think they do vote fairly uniform across the US...to the extent that they vote at all (although these voters are also likely to belong to other Democratic leaning groups).

The article is also right that wealthy people tend to switch in red states vs blue states...I think that was defined as incomes above 75k? The far less well off blue-collar type worker, who may very well be poor, or near poor, is the variable. The bus mechanic in Wisconsin who makes 14 an hour is fairly likely to be a Democrat. In Idaho, he's almost certainly a Republican.

We still have lots and lots and lots of low income voters in our poorest states who are very conservative.

 

[Monsterzuma]

is tanking gasoline consumption a forward looking sign of economic slowdown..?

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/02/what-does-declining-gasoline-consumption-mean/

 

[Cutlass]

is tanking gasoline consumption a forward looking sign of economic slowdown..?

Yeah, oil consumption tanks fast when the economy does.

 

[Arwon]

There's also a price impact you need to control for. The start of the 2008 dip is likely due to the record high oil prices of mid 2008 (gasoline and diesel in Australia peaked in July 2008, I presume that roughly corresponds with the peak in this oil price chart and the start of the dip in yours) as much as anything.

 

[Monsterzuma]

There's also a price impact you need to control for.

just that the high price is a reason for the economic slowdown does not make the economic slowdown less real.

btw, it seems to me just as plausible that the decline in gasoline consumption set in roughly at the point at which the oil price itself went south.

high oil prices are the result of high oil consumption, so it's not surprising for the two to coincide.

 

[Winner]

USA space decadence deepens:

I was going to point out how we've been posting less graphs, but I see no trend:

Woo, a meta-graph!

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Also, I don't think I fully grasp what this graph is supposed to mean. The numbers are highly suspect:

 

[GoodSarmatian]

The numbers for Japan, Cuba and North Korea seem awfully low.
I know that no one wants to immigrate to NK, but there should be at least a couple of Chinese people who stayed after the Korean War or came as advisors, and my guess would be that there are some former Eastern Bloc people (Russians, East Germans...) in Cuba.

 

[Mise]

It just means, for example, that a score of 0.3 for the USA means that if you selected two people randomly in America, there's a 30% chance that their first language would be different. It probably depends on their interpretation of language vs dialect, which for example might cause Germany's number to be much higher than you'd expect, based on its level and diversity of immigration, and its relative linguistic homogeneity compared to the USA.


EDIT: The full table is here: http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=country#6

I don't think this makes a lot of sense. For example, Germany's score is significantly higher than France's, which is significantly higher again than the UK's. However, this table in wikipedia shows that Germany, France and the UK all have pretty much the same % foreign-born population. Unless 2nd generation immigrants adopt German a lot more slowly than 2nd gen immigrants to the UK or France adopt English or French, I'd find it hard to believe that Germany's index would be so much higher than the UK or France's.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

It probably depends on their interpretation of language vs dialect, which for example might cause Germany's number to be much higher than you'd expect, based on its level and diversity of immigration, and its relative linguistic homogeneity compared to the USA.

I don't think so. Just look at the number of "indigenous languages". There the United States clearly trumps Germany. So this "relative linguistic homogeneity" is taking into account.

Unless 2nd generation immigrants adopt German a lot more slowly than 2nd gen immigrants to the UK or France adopt English or French, I'd find it hard to believe that Germany's index would be so much higher than the UK or France's.

Well, that is pretty much what this Graph seems to tell. That German immigrants in deed adopt German slower. And that I don't find it that hard to believe. English seems generally to be easier to adapt to for immigrants, already for its status as the global language.
And France? Well, hard to judge, but one the one hand many immigrants are from Alger, and as this used to be a French colony, the French language was already a big deal in the immigrant's home country. The French emphasize on their own language my be another factor of importance.

 

[Mise]

I don't think so. Just look at the number of "indigenous languages". There the United States clearly trumps Germany. So this "relative linguistic homogeneity" is taking into account.

Yeah, that's what I meant. If the German spoken in one region/state of Germany is considered a different language to the Germany spoken in another region/state, then that would cause their index to be much higher, even though they only have 27 different languages vs the USA's 188, since the number of people in each region/state is much greater than the number of people speaking the 188 indigenous languages of the USA. That all depends on how they defined language, as opposed to dialect. And given that they claim to have found 27 different indigenous languages in Germany, I'd say they are interpreting "language" rather tightly, such that the 3 main dialects are classified as different languages. If you do that, then it makes sense that two random Germans would have a ~37% chance of speaking different first languages.

And if that's their interpretation of "language", then actually it makes sense that they'd get higher numbers than the UK, given that Germany's population is relatively more spread out than in the UK (lots of medium-sized cities across Germany vs a small number of very large conurbations in the UK).

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I guess you are right. Otherwise 37% would be ridiculously large.

 

[Leoreth]

USA space decadence deepens:

Go Americans, vote Gingrich! We need that lunar base!

 

[Winner]

Go Americans, vote Gingrich! We need that lunar base!

I hope you don't seriously believe he'd lift his little finger to set up a proper space programme in the US...

 

[Leoreth]

Yes, I think he will. Quoting Jon Stewart: "He realized that our planet is incurably sick, so he decided to leave it for a newer, younger one."

 

[Winner]

Well, unless the Americans acquire the ability to prolong their attention span, their (public) space programme will go down the drain. Now they're attempting to sabotage one of the last parts of it that are actually working. It's been derailed so profoundly by now that it makes one who's very interested and emotionally vested in this area of human activity very, very sad.

 

[aronnax]