Interesting graphs and charts department
 

Here's a chart with the percentage of adults with college degrees by county.

For fun, try clicking on the Asian button.

New Mexico does very well for blacks -100% in several counties. Just out of interest, how many black people are there in those counties?

Yes, percentages are the big smoke mirror the news media use to report all sorts of things.

Unemployment in Switzerland went up by 100 % last year... from 1 to 2.

Check out Arlington County, VA. You can't swing a cat without hitting a college grad here. The only county I can find that has more grads is right next door in Falls Church. It's ridiculous.

And 6 of the 10 richest counties in the US are surrounding DC.

Seems strange for a place that doesn't actually produce anything.

Since when do you have to produce something to get rich?

Racial/ethnic populations are listed in the info.

Very nice piece of info, useless to me, but, I love this stuff.

Your cat would suffer an aneurysm before contacting a college grad here. 15.19%

It was a rhetorical question....

interesting. lots of educated people in Colorado. Lots of UNeducated people in most of the South.

wonder what the percentage of Cellarites with degrees is?

College towns and Ski Havens. only people with degrees can afford to live there.

% in my county is over 50%. My county includes "little Detroit" where graduating high school is a big achievement. But it also includes the university of Michigan and Eastern Michigan Uni. And several small private law schools etc.

It is pretty interesting...Catron County for example, which is desolate to begin with at about 3500 pop., has 12 black residents all of whom have bachelor's degrees.

Heres a Link to a Cool Graph , comparing States GDP to other country's

http://www.economist.com/blogs/daily...ates_countries

Kazakhstan baby !!!!

We need a rhetorical font.

Don't we already have a rhetorical monkey on the banner?


Or maybe it's rhesus I'm thinking of.

With an economy the size of Turkey's, don't you think Illinois ought to be able to pay it's bills?

So, that's a huge economy in your pocket? I thought you were just glad to see us.:D

The National Broadband Map - takes a long time to load. But interesting in how much of the country is still without.

http://www.broadbandmap.gov/technology

I know where you are on the map. You need broadband.

Graphs and Charts
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/self_description.png

xkcd's graphs and flowcharts are the best.

Where are the singles?

It's a big sausage fest over there on the West coast. I had long heard that DC has a lot of women. It's cool to see it in a chart. And personal experience says it's true. I met my wife here.

Charles Blow put this on his most recent article.

Sexual Behavior, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Identity in the United States

Lots of charts, graphs, and tables.

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Is that all you think about?

Welcome to the cellar DanaC, you're new here, aren't you? Jim, get this person a quiz!

Well, that and sex.

Wait...

Yes, that's all I think about.

*laughs*

Dawg.

:wolf:

Oh, check this out!

Well, now we certainly know whom God hates...

Black people? Oh wait, that was George Bush.

http://www.freewebs.com/squeaker101/...cman-chart.jpg

dana's quiz:

1. Motorcycle throttle or vacuum cleaner technique as a finisher?

2. start at the bottom or top?

3. Is biting OK?

4. Is massaging the grapes vital?

5. When is it NOT a good time for a BJ?

6. What food goes best with a BJ?

7. Definition of a Blowgie?

8. "Squeeze me, baby, until the juice runs down my leg" is from what song?

9. Is a BJ considered sex?

10. what is the opposite of 'above me' ?

:lol:
On the tornadoes graph:
(a) would have made a fine IotD, ya know.
(b) it is interesting that the areas with the most tornadoes is not the same as the area with the most *fatal* tornadoes. I wonder why? Are the tonadoes in the kill zone more intense? are the people there less well prepared? Are there simply more people there to get killed? Are they more stupid, and are still trying to follow Dorothy to Oz? Or does God, in fact, hate rednecks?

In the second figure, why are the highest and lowest on the scale the same color?

one of them represents white people and one of them represents those that went "into the light"?

I know some of these!

You know the pacman one, right?

what did you think I meant?

Interesting. I didn't realize the price difference between us and Europe was basically all tax.

Here is an interesting map. It charts narco-related murders in Mexico on a Google Map. Broken down by civilians, police, and high-ranking officials. Also, mass graves.

You may be a third world country if...
 

you go beyond the green.

Shouldn't Utah show up as purple?

It might on a state by state map.

I wanted to put up a National Geographic birth-rate world map from this month but I don't think its available. It is pretty interesting and sometimes surprising.

Boston Globe's debt chart.

http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/...s-chart-sm.jpg

Obviously from a right-wing blog but the narrative was interesting.

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/28/...s-in-pictures/

Which burger joint rules the roost in your neck of the woods?

Looks like Sonic just spilled their coke on Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas.

The right hand column there is particularly interesting. Most of the debt is owed within the US, so if you try to "quantitatively ease" your way out of it (i.e. print money and devalue currency) you're mostly screwing yourselves.

I'm not so sure about the left column. I have doubts about pinning the debt to each president. Firstly, as various voices shout loudly from time to time, the prez is not totally in control of spending. As well as congress, there are the commitments from previous eras. For example, Obama couldn't just drop the Iraq thing on Jan 20th, 2009, he had to keep it going. I'd rather see what all the money has been spent on (social security, health care, defense etc) over the decades.

And putting tax cuts in as an expense raises all sorts of philosophical problems. I mean, suppose there had never been those tax cuts, but there was still a smaller debt. Could we say that the debt was because no-one has thought to increase taxes by a trillion dollars? :confused:

Heh. Just the other weekend, I was lost in the boonies trying to take a shortcut from one highway to another, and I said to Mr. Clod that I'd just passed a Dairy Queen, so at least I knew I was still in Texas.

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The Chinese portion while an enormous amount of money doesn't seem as scarey as advertised when looked at in the totality of the debt.

The popularity of Zombie movies, vs. the popularity of Vampire movies, in relation to which party is in the White House.

From "6 Mind-Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America" at cracked.com