Yes, that's from Life of Brian. One interesting trend of baby names is the diversification. Parents are frequently choosing names that are non-traditional/non-standard. Even the most popular names are chosen less frequently than before. To see this change, let's compare 1959, which is very close to the peak of the baby boom, with 2018. The … Continue reading “You’re all different”

The Social Security department puts out a list of names chosen for babies. Every year, this generates a series of news stories about the most popular baby names. The data, which goes back decades, also feeds Wolfram Alpha's database (here is an example). The data is broken down by states, so let's have some fun … Continue reading Baby Names

One last post on the Presidential election data. This one will look at something I call Adjusted Trend. The "trend" part looks at how each county voted, compared to the previous election. The "adjusted" means that I'll adjust for the overall swing for the country as a whole. Here's an example: in the 1996 re-election … Continue reading Adjusted Trend heat maps