Inferred Data

Today's update is two graphs from inferred data,
The first from Last Comic Standing I've attempted to show the laughs per hour of this show over time. You can see two things, first the anomalous spike around week 7 where it was actually kinda funny (as agreed by quasi professionals). Then it tanked.




This graph could probably also represent Robin William's Career.


The second graph is a overlay line chart of the tolerability of Jared Fogel overlayed with his weight.
Now I'm now here to hate, I'll leave that to others I'm just bringing the graphs.

Graph of Graphs of Things

Thanks to Adam's suggestion I added the new graph at the top.

These guys run a program that scrapes site stats off of technorati and turns them into a graph.

Great!

Right now the stats are actually for Mowry's Fine Blog because there were problems making it work for us, I'll update it later when there are actually stats for graphsofthings.

Sex Offenders

Megans Law is a law which requires sex offenders to register their whereabouts. This may be a good law. It may not be a good law. It certainly allows us to create some interesting graphs.

It seems that all the states except Maine and Ohio have a law which mandates registration, and there is a great website where you can get data about sex offenders in each state.

Then you can look in different places, and get the data to make these two graphs:

This one shows the number of sex offenders per 1000 in each state. Pretty Straightforward. The population data is from the 06 census and the sex offender data from that link above, (mostly from summer 07).

This is the more interesting chart, showing correlation coefficients between the % of sex offenders and several categories.

Notice that the only strongly correlated values (absolute value > .4) are latitude and longitude, States further North and further West tend to have a larger percentage of sex offenders (Go back and look at the previous chart for the proof). Also, despite what talk radio might have us believe, there is almost no correlation between the # of illegal immigrants and % of sex offenders.

Remember, correlation is not causation, but it is interesting!

Help yourself to my base data:

Guiding Ideals

This is an idea that Roy and I had over lunch. A blog about graphs, graphs of things. Any things. Any type of graphs, charts, or diagrams. Any type of underlying data. Found, estimated, measured, guessed, hilariously made up.

We'd love it especially if you wanted to contribute a post about a cool graph you've got, or some data you'd like someone to chug through. Just let me know (in a comment if you don't have my e-mail) and I'll add you so you can post too!

Sam