Names of slaves
Tweet In 1807 the British parliament passed the Slave Trade Act which formally ended British participation in the African Slave Trade. In an attempt to suppress the African slave trade, starting from...
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Fatalities at work: Using a social network to display OSHA data
Tweet Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor that keeps track of work safety issues. In particular they document work related...
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100 highest mountain peaks on earth and the number of failed climbs
Tweet The top 10 mountain peaks are labeled with their height. The data is from a Kaggle data set. I made the visualization with the python libraries pandas and Basemap.
View Article50 most commonly prescribed drugs networked by common major side effect
Tweet An arrow going from one drug to another means that at least half of the major side effects of the first drug are also major side effects of the second drug. A major side effect is one that...
View ArticleUFC fights and their endgame moves
Tweet Joe Rogan famously described one of MMA fighter Anderson Silva’s fights as a “Ballet of violence.” The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is by far the biggest promoter of mixed martial arts...
View ArticleAverage internet speed vs. Average IQ
Tweet The correlation is strong with this one (r = 0.74)! The IQ data comes from a study conducted on 34 countries, between 2002 and 2006, by professors Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. The study has...
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Terror groups, ideology, and victim count
Tweet The chart above shows all the groups that were classified by the US and other governments as terrorist groups since 1968. I included only those groups with one or more victims. The area of each...
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UFC finishing moves and endings
Tweet The graph below shows how common various finishing moves were in each year of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) competition. The vertical axis is the proportion of fights that ended with a...
View ArticleCan you guess a person’s political leanings from their occupation?
Tweet The US federal elections commission, as part of their mission to enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), publishes information about every political donation to candidates seeking...
View ArticleTrump tweets
Tweet Here is a truly HUUUGE arrangement of the top 400 words in @realDonaldTrump’s tweets. If two words are close together they tend to be more closely associated in the President’s tweets. Enjoy...
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