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Dog years, human years and DNA
A recent paper used DNA matching to support using a log function for dog-age to human-age conversions, but I’m not so sure the data supports it.
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Bar-mekko water use chart
Remaking a puzzling bar-mekko chart in several forms. When width and height both encode data values, so must area.
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Insurance pricing oddity
A deeper dive into 93,000 insurance customer rate changes shared an analysis by The Markup. Making sense of suspicious residuals.
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Relationship chord diagram study
I’ve never found chord diagrams very valuable, but I’m eager to learn where they are useful. Maybe I just need the right data.
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Crossword solving times
I’ve been doing crossword puzzles on my iPad over breakfast (usually oatmeal) for the past few years. Here are some views of the varying daily difficulties of New York Times crosswords.