In the first of what may become a series I'm calling "Uncharted," below is a graph with no label. Guess what data it represents in a comment. First one to guess correctly wins.
Friday, June 23, 2017
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Total active military and veteran populations by country? If that's it, the first two countries are almost certainly the US and China respectively.
ReplyDeleteThat is a classic 'long-tail' showing the aggregate total value of the smaller events dwarfs the few big ones
ReplyDeleteMelina M looks like ~50 bars, can't see well enough to count them on mobile... Might be state populations.
ReplyDeletePopulation of each US state, sorted?
ReplyDeleteI was going to guess word frequency of a fairly long not not enormous text.
ReplyDeleteDeclining rate of horse & buggy ownership?
ReplyDeleteJohn Walkenbach oh jeez. I'm pretty sure you're right and the first two are California and Texas.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Jason Nichols. It looks like US state populations. California just shy of 40 million Texas just above 25 and a couple of paired states Florida and New York then Pennsylvania and Illinois.
ReplyDeleteJohn Walkenbach total US population is ~385 million
ReplyDeletetaking all bars starting from the left and working toward the right until we hit the 10M mark, we can add up to ~150M
taking the 10M to 5M region as a triangle sitting atop a rectangle and using basic math (1/2 B * 5M) + (B * 5M) we get (1/2 * 15 * 5M) + (15 * 5M) = 37.5M + 75M = ~112.5M
taking the 5M to 0M region as a triangle and using basic math again (1/2 B * 5M) we get (1/2 * 29 * 5M) = ~72.5M
adding up those subtotals we get (150M + 112.5M + 72.5M) = ~335M
that's about 13% lower than the actual US population, which is a reasonable amount of error to expect from such an approximation.
top two most populous states are CA and TX with ~38M and ~26M respectively. these match the left-most bars in the chart.
i just counted and i see 51 bars in total, that's one for each state plus one for Wash DC.
i think you're right - state populations in an ordered list
When did we get the extra state?
ReplyDeleteIt's 51 bars ranging from about 38.75 million down to just under a million, so it could be population of US states and the District of Columbia.
Sy Bernot look up one comment from about 5 minutes before you posted...
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ReplyDeleteYeah Jared Eldredge you just edged me out :/
ReplyDeleteAnd Jason Nichols FTW. Indeed, it is the populations of the US 50 states plus DC. Well done, all!
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ReplyDeleteIncome of American CEO's in 2016.
ReplyDeleteGood idea for a series, Craig. Even thought I lost by a few seconds, I hope to see another tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteSorry, John Walkenbach . Looking forward to the next round, best of luck everyone. :)
ReplyDeleteJason, IRL we'd shake hands and maybe exchange a tentative man hug.
ReplyDeleteSome people might think this is just a chart of the price of oil, but it is actually a chart of peak oil demand as the world slowly shifts to back side of the fossil energy bell curve.
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