Thought Provoking Graphs

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:20 pm

Goddamn the Milky Way must be awesome

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:21 pm

Are the counting the actual Milky Way in those numbers? Because it seems like you can see a lot of stars in it

Millions of them

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:22 pm

Not individual stars, but massive amounts of stars

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 09, 2020 2:20 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 09, 2020 2:31 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 09, 2020 2:32 pm

https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/ener ... utheast-us

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:13 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:00 pm

Blue line is 20-year rolling average.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:13 am

Witness wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:13 pm

So basically nobody born before 1930 was named Karen (at least in the US).
I wonder why it became popular around that time.
I had a friend when I was a kid whose mother was named Karen, but not really anyone my own age or younger. Apparently it is Scandinavian in origin.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:24 am

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:13 am
Witness wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:13 pm
So basically nobody born before 1930 was named Karen (at least in the US).
I wonder why it became popular around that time.
I had a friend when I was a kid whose mother was named Karen, but not really anyone my own age or younger. Apparently it is Scandinavian in origin.

Check out usage
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... itive=true#

It became really popular starting in 1968. Crashed in 2003.

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:36 am

Never a good idea, in my opinion, to give your kid a 'currently popular' name. It will identify them as belonging to a certain age bracket as they get older. Much safer to choose names that have remained popular over centuries - these are often biblical: James, Peter, Paul, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, ... You get no idea of the age of a person with names like those. Contrast with Maud, Kurt, Kylie, Karen, ...

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:22 pm

ceptimus wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:36 am Never a good idea, in my opinion, to give your kid a 'currently popular' name. It will identify them as belonging to a certain age bracket as they get older. Much safer to choose names that have remained popular over centuries - these are often biblical: James, Peter, Paul, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, ... You get no idea of the age of a person with names like those. Contrast with Maud, Kurt, Kylie, Karen, ...

Yeah, but those are kinda boring names too. I have one of those boring timeless names too. As do my brothers. They're all straight out of the Bible I think. I guess that means my parents would agree with you.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:44 pm

Rob Lister wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:24 am Check out usage
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... itive=true#

It became really popular starting in 1968. Crashed in 2003.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:25 am

Witness wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:44 pm
Rob Lister wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:24 am Check out usage
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... itive=true#

It became really popular starting in 1968. Crashed in 2003.

How very odd.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 10:29 am

I have spent far too much time on Ngram viewer

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:12 am

Rob Lister wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:25 am How very odd.

It's something in the database:

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:34 am

Witness wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:12 am
Rob Lister wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:25 am How very odd.
It's something in the database:

Smoothing changed from default 4 to 0

The waterfall is 2004.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:39 pm

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:40 pm

Statistics says not possible

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:41 pm

Could have something to do with 2009

Look at the graphic

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:42 pm

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Derp

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:01 pm

https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautifu ... e_us_from/

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:22 am

Maybe I was too subtle

The data ends in 2009, which is where the Ngram graph drops off

Herp derp

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:04 am

Apparently, from births data, this is the "male Karen":

Do we have a Terry here?

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 5:26 pm

Let’s see

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some fact checking

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:06 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:17 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:30 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 11:42 pm

In case you need to suture something:

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:42 am

Super glue works better and faster

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:10 am

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:30 pm

The amplifier of unlimited power. It goes to 11.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 1:05 am

Downloads: https://filebin.net/mt607qr5umg8ngj0

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 12:38 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:56 am

For you outdoor types:

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 30, 2020 10:02 pm

Source: https://www.beholder.uk/vintage/languages/

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:33 pm

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:24 pm

Yeah, increases in hospitalization happen a week or more behind increases in cases. And increases in deaths happen another few weeks after that.
And you need to allow that the rise in cases is mostly in younger people so far - they were the ones going out socializing and breaking the guidelines - so add in a week or so for them to pass it on to their older relatives.

Yes, we'll be seeing a big rise in the numbers of deaths in October. It's already happening in Spain where they are a few weeks ahead of us on the "second wave" curve.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:49 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 4:15 am a map (which seems to be considered a sort of graph hereabouts).

You have a problem with that?

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:33 am

I know it's a topological map, but I think they could have placed the islands better. For example: having Japan off the coast of Europe, next to Cyprus, seems wrong.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:26 pm

↑ & ↑↑: Why do you hate topology?