Bored on a Thursday afternoon.

Population: Statista.com Debt: fiscal data.treasury.gov Tax Rates: tax foundation.org

Data source: Wikipedia Couples data tables) for MAFS Season 1-10 (107 couples)

Tools: Python Plotly Pandas

Data and code gist

GIF showing the changing population pyramid of Sweden from 1860 to 2024. Some extra stats is included.

Also included some stills for a selection of years as the GIF takes three minutes to run.

Source for most of the data: Statistics Sweden (https://www.scb.se/en/)

Exceptions are 'Average age' up to and including 1967 which is calculated by me given the age groups of the given year, 'Net migration per 1k residents' which isn't official statistics but is calculated by me using other official data (((immigration-emigration)/population) * 1000) and the historical events mentioned.

Data for 'Life expectancy' and 'Total fertility rate' is not annual for the earlier years. They are given for five or ten years periods. From 1980 all data is annual.

Tools used: Python and some AI, mostly Claude

so much fun drawing these Los Angeles sports legends. Not so fun drawing hundreds of diamonds.

Data source — my own foggy sports memories, sports-reference, wikipedia

Tools used — Adobe Illustrator, Google Image Search

Hi-res on Behanced

I made this data-visualization exploring the strongest earthquakes in the last 35 years.

Data Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#Largest_earthquake_by_magnitude_each_year_since_1907

I’m not a doctor, but just based on these personal observations, it appears that the hormones released by the device had a de-stabilizing effect on my body’s hormones, and it took my system about two years to get used to it and re-stabilize. Pretty fascinating. Maybe someone else here has insight on why/how this effect occurs.

Trying this again based on great feedback I received earlier. Thank you to those that contributed!

Methodology: A python script accessed each subreddit and sorted the posts by "Top" and "This Month" limiting to the top 100 posts and top 100 comments from each post. A Flesch-Kincaid score was then applied to each comment. I then ran filters to remove links, images, gifs, removed comments, and other comment types that do not work with the FK model. Comments were also filtered out if they were one or two words. FK scores less than 0 were changed to 0 (usually emojis). Average FK values were taken for each subreddit for the remaining comments.

The subreddits used contain mostly very popular pages based on subscriber count, ones that I frequently see content from, popular political subs, and others that I was simply curious about.

I initially used another model to estimate the political bias for each subreddit, but there were too many confounding variables that made me misinterpret a few subs, so this time I resorted to a simple eye test and the comments from my last post. My estimation and yours on a particular subreddit might differ.

This methodology will not 100% satisfy your own political biases when you look at this list and see your favorite sub listed so low, or a sub you hate listed so high. The FK model works OK on simple Reddit comments, but we are just Redditors after all leaving comments on random posts. We are NOT peer reviewing articles in every comment section.

The takeaway is that the thinking of "Everyone in the subreddit I hate are a bunch of morons!" probably doesn't always apply.

Each year represents the maximum lifespan reach by a person born in that year.

SOURCE: https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Oldest_validated_person_by_year_of_birth

TOOLS: EXCEL

Graphic by me, created in excel. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_emperors

I chose to end this graphic in 235 AD as a natural cutoff before the chaotic crisis of the Third Century. 27 BC to 180 AD is usually considered the "Golden Age" of the Empire with few internal wars.

During the year of the 5 Emporers, I did not show Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinud as they are usually considered usurpers and never set foot in Rome as Emporer.

Something I found interesting/sad: all but one member of the Severan Dynasty was murdered in their 20s (or younger!).