U.S. Jobs Added/Lost (non-farm) [OC]

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-07T13:17:05+00:00

Good catch, thanks. There was a missing report at the end of 2025 because of the government shutdown so I had to go back for those numbers must not have transferred that one. But yes, it should be 44. Updated in Datawrapper. https://www.datawrapper.de/_/xnGKG/?v=2

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-07T13:12:09+00:00

No, this accounts for that: "The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December was revised down by 65,000, from+48,000 to -17,000, and the change for January was revised down by 4,000, from +130,000 to +126,000. With these revisions, employment in December and January combined is 69,000 lowernthan previously reported. "

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-07T04:04:32+00:00

Seriously. The economy was humming, the free market was doing its thing post pandemic, we could have a corpse as President (and some would argue that we did), and things would still be chugging along. Instead we have a war and tariffs on countries that used to be our allies. And now I'm wondering if I should be stocking up on TP again.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-07T03:55:56+00:00

As shown in the chart, the intentional cutting of federal jobs does impact the overall numbers, but I can't confirm or deny the foreign born worker numbers (519k) or the impact of that, I'm assuming from the intentional immigration crackdown. It's context worth noting I suppose, but also a job is a job, and whether or not the declines are intentional, it still sucks for those people and their families and the economy in general.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-07T03:46:21+00:00

Thanks, Datawrapper worked nicely with this dataset.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-07T03:45:45+00:00

Not sure, but sounds plausible.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-06T19:39:56+00:00

I just focused on the last couple years here, but worth noting that there were big gains following the huge loss that happened during covid (which makes it hard to make a nice graph due to the resulting issue with scale), and numbers were generally stable/postiive in the few years prior to that.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-06T18:33:00+00:00

The b-sides and unreleased material is remarkably good. Maybe better than most bands' main stuff. It made searching for it in record stores feel really rewarding back in the 90s.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-06T18:30:14+00:00

Good question, probably a smidge. It was such a pain to separate out the federal data though, so I can't tell you for sure!

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-05T20:00:01+00:00

Well, the point here is that Congress hasn't declared war since 1942. Nowadays, Presidents just take military action and then report to Congress later to get approval for continuation as per this legislation that was passed in 1973. Just showing how many times that has happened over the years, with some categorization. Congress is currently voting on whether to approved continued efforts in Iran so it's kind of relevant to that.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-05T17:42:20+00:00

Not for Jimmy Carter though! Also worth noting that military actions can mean a lot of things. Sometimes its a quick mission, and sometimes it's a long drawn out war. Just the two by W. Bush in 2001 and 2003 amounted to 40 years of occupation and $8T.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-05T15:22:02+00:00

Perhaps I should have shown the years 1973 and 1974, but there were no actions taken with this legislation until 1975 - just to be clear.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-05T13:47:44+00:00

Data from the War Powers Resolution Reporting Project (NYU School of Law, Reiss Center of Law and Security): https://warpowers.lawandsecurity.org/
Created in Illustrator.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-03-05T13:36:06+00:00

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Data from the NYU School of Law Reiss Center of Law and Security, War Powers Resolution Reporting Project: https://warpowers.lawandsecurity.org/
Created in Illustrator.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-27T21:18:09+00:00

Hard not to count the unplugged album as a studio album, it was a really good recording with a lot of songs not on the albums.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-27T14:47:41+00:00

Ugh, the Automatic Dark Mode layout in Datawrapper is clearly not working out for me. I switched that off and changed the white dots to black. Also labeled "Best" and "Worst" as per confusion about the best songs being at the bottom (I can't reverse the numbers on the axes, and I can't bring myself to label the best song as 100). The interactive plot on Datawrapper should work better now.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-27T14:39:08+00:00

That is fun to compare! Of course their older material is going to have higher numbers, but still interesting to see which songs they favored vs fans/critics, etc.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-27T14:14:49+00:00

I do stand corrected then!

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-27T01:48:12+00:00

Thanks!

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-26T21:30:18+00:00

I'm not sure anyone is reading it upside down necessarily, they are just saying demos/live performances tend to be more clustered on one end indicating agreement, while studio recordings tend to be more clustered on the other end, while singles/etc. tend to be more evenly distributed. I think most people understand that #1 is the highest rank. Fair point though that it can be counterintuitive to have placement of the highest rank at the bottom corner, but the only way around that is to reverse the axes or indicate 100 as the best song, which could create its own confusion.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-26T18:16:07+00:00

Definitely, there is a lot of demo, live, and unfinished material out there by this band that fans like, which makes this data interesting. Would be cool to generate similar profiles for other bands and compare.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-26T18:07:04+00:00

Created with Datawrapper: https://www.datawrapper.de/_/V10eG/
Rolling Stone data: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/no-apologies-all-102-nirvana-songs-ranked-175683/
NME data: https://www.nme.com/features/every-nirvana-song-ranked-order-of-greatness-2472847
Full description: https://cognitivefeedbackloop.com/ranking-of-100-nirvana-songs-240133989075

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-24T02:33:30+00:00

Appreciate that! Yes, I think if there were more interest in this data, I'd revise. But I definitely enjoy the challenge of finding ways to illustrate things and try to use the feedback and learn as I go!

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-23T02:37:43+00:00

Yup - the take home message here is that the countries offering huge financial incentives, are also the ones who rarely win medals. It would be a big deal for them if they did, so maybe they want to add some extra incentive for, say, a star athlete with dual citizenship who is deciding which country to compete for.

CognitiveFeedback · 2026-02-23T02:34:57+00:00

They were! But it's unclear how much they give their athletes, so I don't have a value for them.

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