Amazon recently announced the 20 finalists in their search for a location to house their new 2nd headquarters (nicknamed ‘hq2’). They showed a map on their web page, but I wanted to create my own map, with a few improvements … Here’s their official m…
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Polishing up your Bitcoins!
With all the talk about Bitcoin in the news lately, I decided it was time I created a Bitcoin graph! Follow along as I track down the data, create a graph, and then polish up that graph to make it shine. But before we get started, here’s a little examp…
Shedding some light on the lottery!
Have you ever played the lottery? Have you ever heard people bragging about all the money they’ve won? Does it make you want to play? … We’ve had an Education Lottery here in North Carolina for over 10 years, but I still didn’t really know much about…
Price of marijuana, across the US
As marijuana has become legal in several states, it’s been a frequent topic of interest in the news. And as with any interesting topic, I like to find useful ways to visually analyze the data. In this case, let’s have a look at the price of marijuana, …
Which US states require an ID to vote?
The first time I voted (back in the 1980s), I was very surprised that I didn’t have to show any kind of identification. I assumed it was because I lived in a small North Carolina town of 300 people where “everybody knew everybody” … but they told me …
Which are the oldest .com domains?
Over the New Year’s weekend, I was listening to the re-broadcast of Dick Clark’s Top 100 music countdown from the 1980s … it was the music from my high school and college years, when synthesizers and fun-rap music popped onto the scene. Another thing…
What Wikipedia pages are the most popular?
When I was growing up, our family had a bookcase containing a set of encyclopedias – it was where I went to obtain information and facts about various things, to satisfy my curiosity and impress my friends. Now that we have the Internet, Wikipedia has …
Timeline of all the U.S. presidents
I was recently reading the Wikipedia page about the U.S. presidents. There was a table with a lot of interesting data, but I thought it would be much easier to get a handle on the information if there was also a timeline graph. So, of course, I set out…