During election season, we see poll after poll taken by various groups that sometimes hit the mark, more or less, and sometimes are just plain wrong. Maarten Lambrechts produced an interactive graphic called Rock ’...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/16/Simulation-Explains-Polling-Errors/[https://youtu.be/Ki5T0Msy4ts] (YouTube link)Have you been told you’re weird all your life? If that’s the case, you probably already know that you are weird. But everyone is different from the majority in som...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/17/37-Ways-You-Might-Be-Weird/I'm a librarian and I married another librarian. Other good possibilities for me were truck drivers, paralegals, and middle school teachers.That's what this chart by Bloomberg Business indicates. Adam Pearce and Dorothy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/12/Who-Marries-Whom-By-Profession/(Image: EPFL)In the Star Wars expanded universe, there are (or were, until Disney eliminated it) over 20,000 characters on 294 planets. What is the species distribution? Researchers at the prestigious research institutio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/12/What-Is-the-Species-Distribution-in-the-Star-Wars-Universe/I’m not sure whether this is totally a math problem or a logic problem, but it has elements of both.We plan to put Beauty to sleep by chemical means, and then we'll flip a(fair) coin. If the coin lands Heads, we wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/02/The-Sleeping-Beauty-Problem/Are you more literate than a third grader? If your vocabulary is limited to the most popular songs on the Billboard charts for the past 10 years, then that’s in doubt.Andrew Powell-Morse of the data blog SeatSmart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/22/Study-Popular-Song-Lyrics-Are-Written-at-a-Third-Grade-Reading-LevelAnd-Are-Dropping/(Image: HBO)No, we're not talking about how many c... ...till alive.Jerzy Wieczorek, a doctoral student in statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, speculates that ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/13/How-Many-Game-of-Thrones-Readers-Have-Died/National Geographic brings us an interactive data visualization project that breaks down world food consumption. As you can see, globally, we consume more grains than anything. The staff of life, you know. At the site, y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/19/What-the-World-Eats/(Image: HBO)George R.R. Martin's slaughter of the inhabitants of Westeros and Essos appears random, but there are clear patterns that can detected and extended mathematically. Dr. Richard Vale, a professor of mathematics...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/03/Who-Will-Die-Next-on-Game-of-Thrones-A-Statistician-Offers-His-Predictions/The New York Times constructed an interactive map of the United States that ranks the nation’s 3,135 counties on a scale that combines the percentage of residents with a bachelor’s degree, median household in...
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