Mathematical Fortune

I thought all the statbots out there would get a kick out of this fortune.

The Japanese Census

This is an incredible visualization of Japanese census data rendered by Soma. The first thing to understand is the Japanese census is a little different than our own. Here is Soma's description.

Let's jump right into this: Japan has the absolute best census in the history of my known world. Not only does it include normal things like age, sex, and the height of each of your pets, but it also legitimizes the gossipy question of What Are You Doing Right Now? Japan slapped a bunch of people with notebooks and a sacred Numbers Mission: keep a log of what you do during the day, in fifteen minute intervals. And those people did!

I've lost a lot of hours playing with these graphs!

Correlation, Not Causation

This is another one for Sue's stat-heads. I grabbed it off Harvard's Social Science Statistics Blog. Somebody ought to stop the import of those lemons.