“Only 51% of adults today are married, according to census data. And 28% of all households now consist of just one person — the highest level in U.S. history. That second statistic may appear less dramatic than the first, but it’s actually changing much faster: The percentage of Americans living by themselves has doubled since 1960.”
World Alcohol Consumption
The illustrated insanity of how folk music “collector” Alan Lomax has a copyrighted stake in the Jay Z song “Takeover“
Retail Price of Marijuana In The United States
Average Home Sizes Around The Western World
Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World. Heights of the Principal Mountains in the World.
From: A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World, 1836
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If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you might recall the Social Regions of the United States according to our Facebook connections. The above map is a similar concept, showing what our state lines might look like if they were drawn based on who we communicate with most as determined by our cell phone calling data. The map based on SMS data is slightly different from the one based on actual phone calls, which I’d guess has to do with texting being a more strictly personal activity.
Active Hate Groups Per One Million People By State
This is similar to my theory that the rise of the word “douche” is at least partially in response to the decline in acceptability of the pejorative use of “gay” and “fag” (or maybe I’ve just been in college and San Francisco for the past decade).
Divorce vs Annual Average Income by State
“the contiguous United States, color-coded by the change in population density from 2000 to 2010. In urban areas, deep blue indicates that the population doubled (or more), pure red means that everyone left, grey denotes no change, and the intermediate tones represent the spectrum of increases and decreases in-between. Below 5000 residents per square mile, these colors fade with the square root of density towards white, where no people lived in either year. We created these maps from the official U.S. Census 2000 and 2010 block-level population data and boundaries using custom-built cartographic software.”
The zoomed-in city maps are fascinating.
Word clouds based on words used in television advertisements for boys’ and girls’ toys
Top 10 Most Racially Segregated Large Cities In The United States:
- Milwaukee, WI
- New York, NY
- Chicago, IL
- Detroit, MI
- Cleveland, OH
- Buffalo, NY
- St. Louis, MO
- Cincinnati, OH
- Philadelphia, PA
- Los Angeles, CA
