This is one of the craziest plots I have ever seen. World GDP follows a power law that holds over many orders of magnitude and extrapolates to infinity (!) by 2047. Clearly this trend can't continue forever. But whatever happens, the next 25 years are going to be pretty nuts.
contributed by Andy on Jul 6, 2022 in things that go up, logs logs logs, power laws
Movies left, NIH right. 🤔 (From https://t.co/0D0vA6b6jC.)
contributed by Andy on Jul 4, 2022 in stripe press, progress?
This is about the weirdest temperature distribution in #NYC you'll see. A rapidly moving backdoor front (east -> west) has dropped temperatures in Queens/Bronx down to below 70F (aided by Long Island Sound). Meanwhile, it's still 90F in parts of Brooklyn/Manhattan! #nywx #nycwx
contributed by Andy on May 31, 2022 in weather, actually this is a map
In 2021 Alexa continued her reign as the most disastrously declining popular name, falling from 495th to 883rd among girls born, and shedding 46% of births, from 1281 in 2020 to just 698 in 2021. In percentage terms, no other major name fell more than 25% (which was Lauren).
contributed by Andy on May 13, 2022 in things that go up
Known reinfections had higher Ct values (indicating lower viral loads) with each variant than ones where no record of a previous symptomatic infection existed, here shown in the unvaccinated. 6/9
— @sbfnk
contributed by Andy on Apr 27, 2022 in covid, small multiples
Fintechs tends to have worse delinquency rates than banks in personal loans. Source: @JPMorganAM
contributed by Andy on Apr 18, 2022 in curves
Vaccines are the single most important tool in our fight against COVID However, I’ve worried our approach using a narrow single protein mRNA Vax may limit our ability to keep up w the virus This new data suggests it might I’ll explain 1/
contributed by Andy on Apr 15, 2022 in covid, small multiples, logs logs logs
@AlecStapp Isn't Japan somewhat unique since a significant amount of land (major cities esp) is "leasehold," held by the same families for generations. Lessors (users) build for short-term use, maybe a generation or 20 years before expected teardown, and Japan's population is shrinking:
contributed by Andy on Apr 7, 2022 in curves
@NateSilver538 Real wages and real disposable income aren't a great way of summing up what the purchasing power is of consumers. If you back that chart up to the great financial crisis:
contributed by Andy on Apr 5, 2022 in fred, hmmm
Below is the cumulative amount of progress from first grade to twelfth by percentile: As you can see there is a lot of progress for the best students into and throughout high school. The students in the first percentile don't meaningfully improve their scores after fifth grade.
contributed by Andy on Mar 28, 2022 in time, height and weight