humanmapping.bsky.social
Retired Demographer/Statistician
Interests include the demography of voting; investing; cycling; bicycle racing; statistics; and mapping. Busy with Statistics Without Borders and Humanitarian Open Street Map Team! I also build plastic models WW2 subjects.
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I despise the use of the phrase "start a family"! Everyone already has (probably) multiple families! A family of origin, a family of friends, maybe a work family. Just say "have children"! It's clear and to the point.
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I find one of the striking features of the baby boom in the late 1940's is how much is really a baby bust in the 1930's and earlier. Most countries simply returned to pre-bust levels of fertility.
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Are the birth rates age adjusted? Seems like they need to be. Unless the age distribution by occupation is similar across occupations.
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Which almost seems impossible. 🤔 How does he exceed infinite idiocy? ♾️
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Be sure to check out the comic strip Frazz this past week (Feb. 16) to understand the difference between a pie chart and a bar chart!
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I am never sure if the answer is an ideal number of children for "my" family versus is it an answer for society as a whole?
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One possible approach for subjects not giving a numerical answer is to impute a numerical number based on matching cases that do give a numerical answer. Hot deck, model based estimation, or probabilistic matching are all possibilities. And probably others.
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I don't read Spanish (even English can stump me) but I think it might be on something called RD3?
setmanaciclista.com/live-directo/
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What kind of vessels sail in the atmospheric river?!
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My apologies. I figure a race date is a pretty obvious item on a list of races.
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The main list is nice but it doesn't show the date of the race until you click through!
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Has anyone published a list showing broadcast sources of racing by country? Not finding one yet, but I thought someone at Escape was doing one.
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Go to the race but find a place where you stream it on a device. We did that at Worlds last year when we couldn't find a spot to see the men's elite race.
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Sorry, by "announcer" I meant the original poster, derek van vliet. Unfortunately Bluesky replies only show the post one is replying to, at least on my tablet that is all I can see. So announcer is definitely the wrong noun in this instance. 🤔
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Ahhhh... but some of the less informed fans might not be following #josebeentv ! So you get a plug from the announcers.
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So #Ente is just a storage site, and not a site to share photos?
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I have one too... Keeping the world safe from the shoelace takeover 👌
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I don't like any of the other choices, but I don't really like it either. I doubt I will renew.
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I have the same issue on my 500px.com account. Full frame images, not portrait necessarily but they are cropped, although I am looking at resizing after cropping.
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Do you have any idea why pictures are cropped at the top and bottom on posts, until viewers click on them? At least that is the case for me in an Android tablet.
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Just in case it isn't obvious, the geography/GIS people do a lot of work on population and climate changes, including the WorldPop people.
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At 2 municipalities for each of 777 local labor markets, that is 1554. That leaves about a thousand municipalities unaccounted for.
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It depends on the denominator. If the total population is just "the left" then Matt is saying he is in the right most 10% of the left. If the denominator is everyone then he is to the right of the left but left of the right. Personally I dislike the concept of a continuum left-right.
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I did cancel my eX-twitter account and I am considering canceling my Instagram account because of all the unwanted posts I am exposed to. I think this Bluesky place may be sufficient for my social interests and LinkedIn for my volunteer activities. 🙋♂️
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Not that I agree with it, but tax cuts, deregulation and limiting immigration. But the Democrats didn't offer any future vision at all. So too many Democrats stayed home. Turnout for Democrats was nearly 9.4 percent below expectations.
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You and me both. I spent much of the day watching Castle reruns. But it came about because Democrats didn't present a decent vision for the future. Election campaigns need to be at least 70 percent about the future. Just pointing out how bad the other side is doesn't yield turnout necessary to win.
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What about stories of how races are put on by the organizers? I'm always interested in how things work!
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Me too. Zero points-I did everyone of those. I think it means I am actually 64 now.
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There's never a drone around when you need one...
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Only if they are on a median...
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The beauty of reading on a kindle! Just tap and get the definition. I must have done it 5 times on my 3.5 hour flight that just landed. No search bar needed.
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Consider "Happy New Year" a directive to you to try and make the year as happy as possible, rather than a question about the year 😀
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I am thinking "listen better". I tend to jump into a conversation too fast.
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Showing the population count in those ZCTAs on the map would be useful.
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My mapping complaint is that the map in my car GPS does NOT maintain a North orientation 🤔
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If the website doesn't already have a method for purchasing (ie spending money) then yes, it is hard.
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You would still be ahead of me! I wouldn't even start that race.
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Thank you very much 😊
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ps - You will need to click on the individual pictures. I didn't realize that pictures get cropped!
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But don't tell Elsa you have a favorite...
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Good luck! I hope you get the job if you want it!😀
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Be sure to view Neil Young's movie, "Heart of Gold". I believe he mentions that his acoustic guitar is from Hank Williams Sr. I never cease to be amazed at Young's talent! He plays 5 instruments during the show.
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BTW, I think my favorite Neil Young song is probably Cinnamon Girl, but Heart of Gold is also up there.
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Officially, "Posts" according to the CEO.
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Your favorite Neil Young song is about an event that happened before you were born?
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Victor's Justice. See WW2.