Natalie

Shout outs to Natalie

smartwoolexperiment: Natalie - I have a question about querying my data and displaying it on my site. What's the best way to get help? 2 days ago

boehr: Hi Natalie! Thanks for the welcome. Very interesting graphs on your page! 3 days ago

smartwoolexperiment: Natalie, thanks! I'll let you know if I need help. 3 days ago

richard: hi 8 days ago

amichetti: Hi Natalie, thanks for your suggestion. Can you still I'm new and learning about how to organize data? Help appreciated! 11 days ago

jmafernandez: Hi, I think you're shout will be louder once I fill my profile !! 15 days ago

About Me

I just graduated from Cal with a degree in English Literature. I like sunny weather, ample quantities of orange spice tea, the color purple, short stories, and yummy data. :)

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Featured Graphs

Obesity Rate by TV Viewing Hours

The book "Affluenza" claims that watching television is the primary cause of obesity. It sounds like a plausible claim, but it is hard to substantiate from this data.

The point high up to the right is the US: at the time the data was taken (around 2005), they watched the most TV and were the most obese within this selection of countries.

See this blog post for more details.

The obesity rate is the percentage of the population with a BMI over more than 30.

Opening Weekend: vs. Horror Movies 2000+ Total Box Office:

Scary Movies Profit

It's almost Halloween and you know what that means: scary movies galore. This graph shows total profits made on scary movies in the box office and during opening weekend since 2000. Could the increase be due to scary movies getting better? A look at the average tomatometer rating suggests otherwise; ratings dropped to an average of 36 in 2007, down from 83 in 2001. The average profit made per movie shows declines as well. Perhaps its because of the number of scary movies made by major studios in recent years. Fandango search results show that 57 horror genre films were released in 2007; 31 will be released by the end of 2008 and 11 films are already slated for release next year. Data uploaded by jtemplon.

Featured Data Sets

Palin Readability Index

Various readability indexes derived from Palin's speech during the VP debate.

Hard words: overall, 747; sampled, 10 Long words: overall, 1310; sampled, 14

TV Viewing Habits and Obesity

The book "Affluenza" claims that watching television is a primary cause of obesity. This data, sourced from the OECD and WHO, does not appear to support that contention.

The "obesity rate" is the percentage of the population with a body mass index (BMI) over 30.

See this blog post for more details.

Recent Comments

U.S. Soldiers Named
Dead In Iraq..

Natalie: I'm not really sure. This section on Wikipedia has some interesting information about why violence after the surge decreased. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007#Iraq.27s_security_situation It's also interesting to note that Ramadan takes place in September and October, which may have also contributed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Attack_Trends.jpg (3 days ago)

Natalie: There's an image that shows attack trends here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Attack_Trends.jpg (3 days ago)

Immigration by
country of origin..

drunkenlamppost: This is a really interesting long-term view. My immediate reaction was surprise at the low African origin numbers. Are these from legal/official routes - did the African immigration to the US occur almost entirely before the Civil War. I'm no expert and that seems credible, but it does make this 'long-term' picture seem almost too short-term if one wants to draw conclusions as to the current composition of the US population? (about 18 hours ago)

Natalie: My guess is that you're right. The numbers were taken from the Statistical Yearbooks of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. So I would imagine that those numbers do not account for Africans dragged over in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Also, since slavery ended in 1865, a longer term view may be necessary to get a better understanding of the U.S. population. (about 15 hours ago)

Voting along party
lines - House..

Natalie: Great data. This is just the kind of thing we look for to feature on the home page. You should check out the Swivel data team. :) http://www.swivel.com/groups/show/1000132 (about 15 hours ago)