The Wall Street Journal recently published a study of the top 17 medical areas (or body parts) that venture capitalist investments are likely to benefit. They used graphs to summarize the results, but “the graph guy” in me just couldn’t resist trying to improve them. Did my improvements help? – […]
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There’s a lot of buzz about Hadoop these days. I started checking into it, and there seemed to be a gazillion releases. So, being The Graph Guy, I decided to create a graph to make it a little easier to digest! During my search for Hadoop information, I found the […]
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There’s big money in professional sports these days – we’re talking billions of dollars! Do you know which teams are the most valuable? The graphs in this blog will show you… I recently saw a bar chart on dadaviz.com showing the world’s most valuable sports teams. It was the right kind […]
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There’s been quite a bit of controversy about the number of undocumented immigrants in the US lately – for example, Ann Coulter claims that number is 30 million, whereas others claim it’s about 11 million (readers of my blog are data-savvy, and would dig into the details of such claims, […]
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What is it that people like so much about motorcycles? The thrill/excitement/freedom of riding them, the ‘biker image’ portrayed in movies, or great songs such as Little Honda by the Hondells? I’m not a biker per say, but I do have a couple of motorcycles, and am a known associate […]
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Greece has been in the news lately, trying to secure funds to repay 1.5 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the month. And as luck would have it, there is some data available and some graphs to be created … I love this job! […]
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A recent news report shows an unexpected spike in traffic fatalities here in the US in 2015. This got me wondering what the data shows … for the past 100 years or so… Driving was a lot more dangerous in the early days. If you were in a wreck, you […]
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Did you ever wish you could master SAS/GRAPH, and create graphs and maps that were customized exactly like you wanted them? Then this free eBook is for you! Probably the most memorable book for me was the Necronomicon in the Army of Darkness movie. How many of you liked that […]
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