Here’s my contribution to the wonderful world of GraphJam…
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What Do You Value?
Posted on October 26, 2009 by danspira
From a friend’s status update on Facebook:
Sandra: if it costs more than $1,000, I feel like I should be able to take a hammer to it, and have it still work when I’m done with it. (Yesterday at 9:04pm)
Dan: again with those Ming Vases, Sandra… how many times to I gotta tell ya… (13 hours [...]
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How People Spend Their Time
Posted on August 1, 2009 by danspira
Here’s an amazing interactive infopron graph from the New York Times, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey: (hat tip to DRZ)
Some interesting things we learn from this data:
At 8:30 a.m., more than 20 percent of the adults living with one child are asleep, compared with 15 percent of those [...]
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Same Data, Different Graphs (aka “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”)
Posted on July 8, 2009 by danspira
Here are two graphs done early this year, regarding U.S. job losses resulting from the current financial recession, as compared to previous recessions. Both graphs use the same data, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but the difference between the graphs is startling. The first graph was put out by the office of a politician, Nancy Pelosi. [...]
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Time Management
Posted on May 7, 2009 by danspira
“I’m the kind of guy who will spend half a day working out a way to avoid doing something twice.”
“Yup, I can relate to that. I just did that yesterday.”
Frustrated with his struggle to conform with the world of time sheets and seeking a better way to manage his time, Michael Hunger built himself [...]
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Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech: By the Numbers
Posted on January 20, 2009 by danspira
For some reason that morning, I thought to myself: “He’s going to start off by expressing humility.” I wasn’t disappointed.. but then again, after doing some quick web research, it turns out the previous U.S. President’s first inaugural address had a similar expression too. What was nice, though, was that Obama deliberately used the moment to eschew [...]
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Online Retail Equivalent to Same Store Sales
Posted on December 29, 2008 by danspira
There’s a lot of talk this time of year about retail sales, consumer spending and what this means for The Economy. With this talk comes statistics, and with these statistics come the classic metric of traditional retail, Same-Store Sales , or as I like to call it, Seam Sore Stales (Stale Sore Seams? Stole Sears Mare?).
Same-store [...]
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Election Results
Posted on November 5, 2008 by danspira
more stats: WordPress Bloggers Who Like To Fill Surveys vs. People in the U.S. Who Voted
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A Year In The Life of a Blog
Posted on March 16, 2008 by danspira
This blog started a year yesterday. Since that time, the earth has returned to roughly the same position relative to the sun, but everything else is completely different… at least for me. During this time, my blog has matured, yea verily, like a fine single malt scotch in an oak sherry cask, soaking in random [...]
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U.S. First Class Postage Rate Hike: Investment Value of the Forever Stamp
Posted on February 11, 2008 by danspira
I’ve been honing in on my “soft” skills for the past week, so the analyst in me is just rarin’ to go and crunch some numbers. Rather than channel this energy for any real useful purpose, however, I decided to take a look at the U.S. Postal Service’s little innovation called the Forever Stamp.
In brief: After [...]
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blog stat
Posted on October 9, 2007 by danspira
time for an inventory check.
as of this moment:
60 posts and 1600 views in 3.8 months
(and 24 unpublished drafted/notes)
that comes to about 16 posts and 421 views per month, which is much higher than i expected (especially on the posting side) for a scrapbook of random thoughts.
using WordPress (or similar services) causes one’s blog to be instantly crawled by [...]
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