The way your graph looks can make all the difference … two people can graph the exact same data in essentially the same way, but one of the two graphs can be perceived as much better than the other. Hopefully reading my blogs will help you create the better graph! […]
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One of my favorite quotes is: “You can’t believe everything you read on the Internet” – Abe Lincoln, 1868. And that is especially true when it comes to graphs and statistics. Hardly a day goes by without me seeing a bad graph that misrepresents the data (either intentionally or unintentionally) . […]
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With the Pokémon Go craze sweeping the world, techies and programmers are looking to apply their skills to gain an advantage over the average user. In this blog post, I show how to use some of SAS’ geospatial analytics capabilities to capture a Pikachu. Let’s say you know of a building that has […]
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What would it be like if the US was in the EU? I don’t know how that would work out politically, but this map shows how it might look geographically (if the US was literally picked up and moved to Europe!) My buddy Rick Langston is a bit of a […]
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So, how many different Pokémon have you caught – and more importantly, how many different kinds are still out there that you haven’t caught yet? I’ve created some graphs that might help you figure it out! I think my previous blog post might have irritated some of the hardcore Pokémon players out there […]
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Are you caught up in the recent Pokémon Go craze? Or maybe just trying to figure out what all the fuss is about? In this blog post, I try to analyze all the important Pokémon-related data in one graph! When the original Pokémon game first came out around 1995, you needed […]
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I’ve noticed fewer and fewer people smoking these days, and was wondering who the last holdouts are. Let’s run some numbers and find out… Back in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s it seems like almost everyone smoked. You hardly ever saw the “cool kids” such as James Dean without a cigarette – […]
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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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