More Maps, Less Muppets

Continuing the weed and gas buddy post, here’s another example of plotting data inputted from real people.  This example shows NFL team loyalties as gleaned from Internet users voting (click here or on the images themselves to get a big version).

And MLB:

And the city you most associate with (people in Portland who voted for Boston, you should be ashamed):

 

The whole thing works when people enter their address and vote here.  Neat.

Am I Hot or Not

Simplyhired.com lets you enter a job title and see its trend over the last 18 months.  Looking up for baristas, down for missile defense people, and kind of hit and miss for steamboat pilots.

Missile Defense, Barista trends

Missile Defense jobs | Barista jobs

Steamboat Pilot trends

Steamboat Pilot jobs

King George III of Uruguay

Two hundred and thirty four years ago our fore fathers declared their independence from … ummm, Uruguay?  France?  the Czech Republic?

Well 20% of the country isn’t sure. 

Moving to Maine?

Forbes has a cool app that lets you look at who moved where in 2008, based on IRS data.

Drilling into Cumberland County, here are some random things :

• More people moved to Portsmouth from Portland than the other way around. 148 people moved to Portsmouth; 113 moved to Portland. 
• Northern Maine is moving to Southern Maine.  All of the counties north of Augusta: Aroostoock, Penobscot, Washington, Hancock, Somerset, Waldo had more people moving to Cumberland County than the other way around.
• 44 people moved to Arizona from Portland.  No one moved to Portland from Arizona.
• Nobody from Portland moved to Arkansas.

Things I Learned in Kindergarten

This should be one of them.  Create geeks early I say.

Along the geek line, this popped up on a sociological website – what do you consider a luxury? a necessity?  I love that car is decreasing. 

Jim – 3% of people think an iDevice is a necessity.  No doubt do to Angry Birds. 

Three kids rule

Very cool presentation of the changing look of motherhood in the US.  Since 1990, mothers are 3% less likely to be under 20, 5% more likely to be over 35, 10% more likely to be Hispanic, and 13% more likely to be unmarried.

24% of mothers were foreign born in 2004, compared to 15% in 1990.

54% of mothers were likely to have some college in 2006, compared to 41% in 1990.

Anyways, lots of cool statistics that will no doubt completely reshape the next 20 years.

This one hits home.  I wonder about the spike in the 1990s of three kid desirability.  Cosby Show influences?

http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/754-new-demography-of-motherhood.pdf