I’ve been mulling over a segment focusing on statistics and data for a while now. But since I suffer from (highly likely) ADHD and can’t seem to find time to properly give such a segment justice, I’ve sat on it. Aieee, sit on it, Potsie!
With that sparkling opening introducing a new feature, enjoy these “Take that for data!”
Ever wonder who the ‘drinkiest’ people in the world are?
What goes best with pizza? I know. Infographs!
I did notice a foul habit in one of the graphs. 36% of Americans dip the crust in….ranch dressing?
Two hours has passed since my last link. It seems I fainted and hit my head on the fall leaving me woozy after reading that stat.
Sitting in a meeting about things relating to my business – I think. I forget – I wondered, who are the biggest producers of cured meats in the world?
Holland is 2nd? La-dee-daw.
I’m not sure what contract I signed.
Moving along. Here are countries with the highest self-employment rates. Please note, racists, graph is in White but text is in Italian.
Greeks top the list. Us Nerf Americans languish at the bottom. Meh. How many entrepreneurs do you need, right Comrade Bernie?
How many parasites do we need sucking off the productive classes, Grandpa Gulag? Eh? Hm?
And now for some sports.
It’s been put forth the New England Patriots benefit from being in a weak AFC east. So I investigated.
Let’s start in the AFC north with the Steelers and Ravens. In the Belichick era: The Patriots are 6-3 against the Steelers in regular season play and 4-0 in the playoffs. They’re 5-1 against the Ravens but are 2-2 in the post-season facing them. Nonetheless, it’s a dominant edge for New England.
Moving onto to the AFC south. The key team there are the Colts (who played in the AFC east for two seasons). Regardless, different team and division same result. New England is 12-5 against the Colts in the regular seasons and 5-1 in the playoffs. Again. Dominant.
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126 responses to “Take That For Data”
It’s amazing how fast Boston fans became more insufferable than New York fans once the city made a collective deal with Satan about a decade and a half ago.
Oh, they were insufferable when I was a college freshman back in 1990.
So half a post of random infographics and half a post of fellating Belichick. Do you even work?
I just want to lay it out there: I’m a Philadelphia Eagles fan.
You remember Jerry Seinfeld’s bit about how, in sports, we’re basically rooting for laundry? That’s how I feel about the Eagles. I like their unis so much, I tend to root for them.
I’m not rooting against Raiders laundry. I’m rooting against the fans wearing Raiders laundry.
What’s so bad about Raiders fans.
I wish I could say I became a fan for logical reasons (since I’m not from Philly…duh). Rather it was along those lines. I was eight and saw the Eagles-Raiders SB and when the Eagles came out of the tunnel with those Green/white unis with Jawarski I just went with them.
I liken it to playing the lottery… Yeah, sure, it’s irrational, but it’s fun to pretend like it matters.
It’s one of those things that makes me hate self-congratulatory pseudo-intellectuals who rag on poor dumb hicks for buying lotto tickets. Hey, jackass, it’s just another form of entertainment consumption, and not an especially expensive one, so lay off.
The ’80s Eagles uniforms were much better than what they wear today. Either the Dick Vermeil era ones with the UCLA shoulder stripes or the Buddy Ryan era ones. Kelly green is much nicer than whatever the hell shade they sport now.
EHHHHHHNNNNT! (that’s a buzzer sound) You’re completely wrong. Like the Platonic Ideal of wrong. The Eagles old unis were nice, but the current set are spectacu-perfect.
And the shade of green is Midnight Green, thank you very much.
Not surprised at all.
It’s possible both are true, that they play in a weak division AND are dominant. In the 1980s, the Lakers played in a weak division; didn’t hurt them too bad. The Lebron James Miami Heat played in a terrible conference, but won two Finals in a row against the Thunder with Durant, Westbrook, and Harden, then beating my Spurs the next year. Interesting W/L splits, Rufus.
Since you went all sports on us, I may have to pitch in with some basketball stuff.
What were the records of the other division teams over that era compared to the league? Seems other divisions have had some big showdowns with rivals where winner gets a bye and the loser would still get a wild card spot. When’s the last time that happened in the Pats division?
2001 maybe, New England, Miami, and the Jets all made the playoffs and most years at least one of Miami or the Jets is a legitimate playoff team.
Yeah the AFC East has not been the strongest division but it isn’t the weakest either. I’d have to say the NFC West, AFC South, NFC South, and even NFC North have all been weaker since the NFL went to 8 Divisions in 2002
Good question. As if I don’t already have enough to do. Maybe I’ll do it while watching the Pens/Sens.
Hey it rhymes!
Interesting. Since All The Right People™ keep telling us that alcohol is a carcinogen (and, let’s be honest, isn’t everything?), do the same countries that have the highest rates of alcohol consumption also have (for instance) the highest rates of liver cancer?
Enact my labour for me, shitlords!
There is a correlation between the drunkest countries and lower life expectancy.
But that’s because it’s Eastern Europe, not the booze.
Ever wonder who the ‘drinkiest’ people in the world are?
I’m guessing this list is pretty much every Eastern European country, followed by Ireland.
*checks*
Dammit, it’s the U.K. instead. And Belgium’s there for some reason.
Also, suck it Yankees, we’re bigger drunks than you, even with our terrible alcohol regulations!
The regulation is why you drink! Or maybe it’s because you live in a cold-as-fuck country.
Also, high percentages of Scots, Irish, and Catholics. Prohibition didn’t last long in most provinces for a reason.
And Belgium’s there for some reason.
“some reason”? Have you ever been to Belgium?
Possibly the world’s most boring countryside with mostly mid-20th-Century civic architecture that looks like a city planner’s wet-dream, but blessed with over 400 breweries. I’d be drinking my face off there even if it wasn’t boring AF.
BEAM’s career at the Belgian tourism board didn’t last long.
Yeah, but I was able to drown my sorrows in that bitchin’ side-street pub in Bruges.
I’ve heard big stories about how much the Finns drink. They look like lightweights on that chart.
Iceland has the most severe reputation.
If I had constant access to all Belgian beers, I would be drunk 50% of the time.
Wait, you’d go backwards??
Silly rabbit – “sleep” is the other 50%
One can be drunk and passed out.
So you would be drunk less?
My BAC would probably never drop below .08.
Healthiest country? Bullshit.
All those 20-something gangbangers die from being unhealthy, bringing down the life expectancy.
Was that “article” performance art?
I wrote it while twirling the ribbon they use in rhythmic gymnastics.
Pics?
No. Too disturbing.
I did notice a foul habit in one of the graphs. 36% of Americans dip the crust in….ranch dressing?
You shut your goddamn mouth.
From the people that put mayo on hamburgers no less!
And gravy on fries.
It’s like gravy on biscuits, d00d, but with less work.
Who in the hell does that? Zeb?
Hell, I put mayo on hot dogs.
I won’t pretend I’m not a philistine for liking my pizza with ranch, but cool creamy dressing with hot greasy cheese is pretty good.
Don’t mind me, I’m grossed out by creamy things.
Uh . . . phrasing?
Mayo on hot dogs is awesome. Gotta admit, never tried ranch with pizza though. I have had ranch on tacos and burritos. That’s really good.
My wife loves ranch on her taco, she can’t get enough of it
these euphemisms…
What the hell is wrong with all of you?
Mayo and mustard is the only way to roll with a hamburger/cheeseburger. Ranch dressing on anything other than accidentally dripped on the supple thigh of a cowgirl in a short skirt and boots is an abomination.
well, what else am I supposed to dip my pizza bones in?
Oh, yeah… bleu cheese.
Hey whatever happened to good old fashioned salty orphan tears?
They make the bread soggy 🙁 Which makes for a different kind of tears.
XLII: Giants 17, Patriots 14
XLVI: Giants 21, Patriots 17
I don’t give a shit how many Super Bowls Tom Brady wins – Pats fans ain’t got a fucking thing to say to me.
Hey, we’ll see next time the Giants get to the Superbowl! (snickers at their crappy team and retarded quarterback)
I can’t believe Eli has one SB let alone two. He always seems to complete his passes while someone pulling him down by the collar and him flicking a floater and it being magically caught then getting up looking like a dazed goat that was raped by a ram and Warty.
And fuck Dom Capers for not having the sense to give Al Harris help against Plaxico Burress.
The two things I’ll always remember from that game:
1)Plax just destroying Al Harris.
2)Jacobs burying Charles Woodson on a sweep on the first drive.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you. I have two Lombardi Trophies jammed in my ears.
Jams them in further until ear drums pierced.
You can buy those little ear-cleaner thingies at your local CVS to scrape ’em right out.
Speak up! I have 5 of those trophies in front of me.
Took a Giants coach to get them for you. If only George Young hadn’t been such a stubborn bastard.
*vikings fan banging on ceiling to complain about noise because we have nothing at all to plug our ears*
The braids on the stupid Helga helmets work.
Some teams have won 13 championships.
(The Vikings are not one of those teams.)
OT (tho global CPG stats are my steez) =
so i’m trying to rip my entire watched-video list from Youtube*
(*reasons – mostly related to extended period of obscure-track-digging where i downloaded 100s of clips which have since been lost to a drive-wipe)
i found a guy who wrote a script to do just that
It requires installing some python based doodads. (mainly “scrapy” and some subsidiary components) From what i gather i need to run some virtual-environment
it seems simple enough from the top level, but the more i look at this stuff it seems like every step requires its own subsidiary apps/library/environment etc.
can anyone look at this here and suggest a simple step-by-step of what i need to run it?
Looks like a poorly thought out vanity project. Which, good for that guy, that’s a great way to get better at programming, but it probably isn’t the best thing for someone else to use. I doubt there is a way to get it to ruin without replicating the dev environment the writer used to create it.
The api is easy enough. Do you want anything other than your history? How do you want it stored?
nope. re: how stored – whatever’s easy. CSV?
also, i don’t know if it matters, but i don’t need to go back farther than 12-18 months
Ok, I found out why the project you linked to is set up the way it is. The YouTube api has a limit of 50 results, which won’t get you that far back. What that guy did as a workaround is emulate a logged in user and then grab the YouTube history page for that user and then parse through the HTML. That’s quite a bit harder, and explains the dependencies.
Yes, i’d already gathered that much.
my question above was whether his instructions for setting up the environment to run his script could be simplified/streamlined.
i.e. is there a simple freeware Win7 environment i can load libraries and other dependent things he lists that will allow me to give it a shot?
i’m not familiar enough with what he’s doing to see what the starting point is
the way i’d already gathered that point was that the guy explained it when posting the link to his Github thing =
Are you on PC or Mac?
If PC, the easiest way is one of :
1) installing activepython for windows and figuring out how to install it with that
2) installing cygwin for windows and installing it within there
Thanks man, that’s what i was looking for.
So is welfare-collecting beach bum considered “self-employment”? That may explain the Greeks.
I’m guessing “shepherd” is the winner for the Turks.
I’m willing to bet it’s less about entrepreneurial brilliance and more about tax avoidance.
They’re all standup philosphers and fudge packers
They all work off of the books or under the table and bury their cash in the backyard. Who would take a job or bother with banks when they get taxed at 110% and have their bank accounts/deposit boxes seized by the government. Of course they are all entrepreneurs.
Twitter Suspends WND For Seth Rich Story
Shut-up peasants!
I still think it’s a load of nothing, but Jesus Christ, Twitter, this isn’t how you bury a story. It’s how you convince people the story has merit.
It’s kind of amazing how the media complexes still manage to control the message to at least some extent while being stunningly incompetent.
Man, would I love it if it turned out they did do it.
Somebody did it. It would be one hell of a coincidence if that was a stray bullet or some kind of weird thrill killing.
Their complete and total over-the-top reaction to it suggests they’re worried.
Its how they (twitter) convince me that they’re complete fucking scumbags.
forget the seth rich story – i just think its absurd that they go to the mat to defend *donna !()*(#$ brazille*, who is a complete scumbag herself. and from what i can tell, even tho WND is normally a pretty shoddy political tabloid, apparently their story is ‘well sourced’ compared to the sort of shit we’ve seen from the MSM lately.
To be sure, they’re so beyond the pale–including putting Anita Sarkeesian on the “Trust and Safety Council”–that even Rico Suave can’t abide it.
Rico Suave’s version of “outrage” is to demand that
Title IX be repealedthe Dept of Ed modify their guidance slightly, such thatstar-chamber prosecutions of students sans due process will be stoppedgreater consideration be given to the be given to the rights of the accused.what’s his followup on his non-abidance of Twitter’s censorship-committee? “” it should consider restoring Yiannopoulos’s profile.”” Outrage, indeed.
Yeah, taking some kind of principled and defined stand instead of measly-mouthed tut-tutting sprinkled with idiotic false equivocations might have social ramifications, and we couldn’t have that, could we?
I’m deeply skeptical, but not because I think it’s impossible or even unlikely. I just think it’s a big enough deal that I’d want to be pretty damn certain that it’s true before shouting it from the hills. But, like you say, the guiltier the Dems and their allies act, the more suspicious I get.
I was skeptical at first, then as the tid bits kept rolling in, I now think it may very well have been a hit. There are too many weird things there. From the DNC not letting the FBI into their system after the so called hack all the way to Brazille waving off the investigator and having an inside route to the DC police. It stinks.
That’s a lot of cheating, eh?
Yes, yes it is. Fucking cheating cheaters gunna cheat like the cheating cheaters they are.
Show us on the football where Tom Brady and Bill Belichick touched you.
Where they put the air in?
Hey, libertarians are supposed to rationally follow the STATISTICS! And the stats show…the Patriots rape the NFL.
They were asking for it, no?
I mean, look at the way they dress!
NFL pants, not unlike jeggings
It would be one hell of a coincidence if that was a stray bullet or some kind of weird thrill killing.
I know absolutely nothing about the guy, but cannot help wondering if it was some sort of late night chest-puffery gone horribly wrong.
“You fucked with the wrong guy.”
“No, you did.”
BLAM
Actually, it was “BLAM BLAM” and in the back.
It’s freaked out enough of the right people that it makes me think that even if the DNC had nothing to do with it they’ve probably got enough skeletons in the closet that they’ve lost track of who they’re targeting.
“Oh shit, did we order the hit on that Seth Rich guy?”
“No ma’am, that wasn’t one of ours.”
“Good. Still, make sure all the rest have been covered properly and get them to shut the hell up about it.”
Like the pakistani bros?
The what now?
Those it aides that fled to pakistank. Made nice bucks and debbie was getting pissed at the police
Helluva place to flee to.
It might not be much, but to them, it feels like home.
Here you go
Holy.
Shit.
I…what does one even say to that?
How is anything Trump has pulled out his butt even comparable to this?
People don’t know, because Two Minutes Hate met the 24-hour news cycle and it’s literally nothing but Trump everywhere I look.
Oh and…
Pakistani nationals with financial issues running the DNC’s IT.
Yeah, it must have been the Russians.
Information for the homeland security committee is handled by Pakistanis. Brilliant.
That shows you what a farce the whole war on terror really is. If the U.S. truly faced an existential threat, the politicians would be taking actual security far more seriously.
Instead they dick around on the unsexy stuff that nonetheless really matters while grandstanding on things that are essentially theater.
Anyone see that odd wapo story yesterday with anonymous sources again?
But this time it was regarding comey using intel about doj collusion on hillary email investigation
Are they trying to get out in front of something?
Which is why he made the decision in july
Already was having a lousy day, now I’m getting wrangled into filling a chair for a Terry McAuliffe bill signing so it’s not as obvious that no one cares about it.
Put on your MAGA hat and fill it personally.
Put on your robe and MAGA hat.
You can leave your MAGA hat on.
I would have suggested disrobing and wearing a MAGA hat.
Brilliant advice from all. Sadly, I have to keep my job.
It actually is a decent law, dialing down our draconian license-suspension policies that TSTSNBN has run several stories on. Made it a bit more tolerable, though I still feel the need to take a shower.
No you don’t. You can set up a chaturbate account for free.
now I’m getting wrangled into filling a chair for a Terry McAuliffe bill signing so it’s not as obvious that no one cares about it.
Wear your MAGA hat.
And nothing else. *opens up google news, waits patiently*
Because you’d asked earlier… here is that ammo.
Damn your fast fingers.
Yes, but you posted yours in the proper place.