Tag: age

Proof that Southerners lie about their age!

Have you ever lied about your age? When you were younger, perhaps you exaggerated your age to watch an R-rated movie, buy cigarettes, get into a night club, or drink alcohol? And when people reach their 30s or 40s, they might subtract a few years when …

Keeping track of the oldest people in the world

How old was the oldest person in your family, or the oldest person you personally know? And how do they compare to the oldest people in the world? … Perhaps you can easily make the comparison, with this cool graph! But before we get started, here’s a…

Map: Median age by country

If countries have a similar median age, does that mean they are also similar in other ways? My best guess at an answer is – probably. Perhaps if we plot the data on a map, we’ll be able to see the answer more clearly. I first started thinking about thi…

A graph for Trump – our oldest president

Recently, my fellow SAS blogger Rick Wicklin wrote a post showing how to graph the ages of all the US presidents. And Chris Hemedinger showed how to create a bar chart showing the number of presidents having each of the 12 zodiac signs. Both are interesting graphs, but I wanted to […]

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Does this graph make you feel old … or young?

They say age is a relative thing. With this graph, you can tell how old (or young) you are, relative to everyone else. (I’ll let you decide whether this is a good thing, or a bad thing, hahaha!) Nathan Yau recently posted a graph on flowingdata.com that allows you to […]

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