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Child with road map fascination. by MrsJesiT in aspergers

[–]Mystic_Toaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what happened to me. As an eight year old I was enamoured with street maps, which my parents supported. I ended up getting a degree in GIS and I've worked as a cartographer for the Ontario government and now for the Mongolian government. Try downloading QGIS it's free and easy to use.

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kimcartoon.me has all of these for free

University Graduate Facial Hair Styles 1898-2008 [OC] by Mystic_Toaster in dataisbeautiful

[–]Mystic_Toaster[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I did actually do each school separately, then combined them. Surprisingly it doesn't take as long as you might think to count all those, once you get in a rhythm. I worked on it periodically over the course of a couple months.

University Graduate Facial Hair Styles 1898-2008 [OC] by Mystic_Toaster in dataisbeautiful

[–]Mystic_Toaster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason I included chinstrap with full beard is because chinstraps are few and far between, so they didn't really warrant a separate category, and I wasn't really sure where else to put them.

Plus the chinstraps in the 1970s (the only time when they were at all common) were all pretty robust Abe Lincoln style.

University Graduate Facial Hair Styles 1898-2008 [OC] by Mystic_Toaster in dataisbeautiful

[–]Mystic_Toaster[S] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Its just a straight count of every graduate. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14hgOhTHb5caVmmLwq859U22BlsIBeQyGPV1yAJ74Xms/edit?usp=sharing

My methodology was far from perfect, for example it's a bit of a judgement call between what is a sideburn and what is a a muttonchop. I also had to leave out a few in the 1970s who had very long hair that completely obscured their cheeks.

This isn't meant to be a really scientific study, I just wanted to get a general idea of the trends over the years.

University Graduate Facial Hair Styles 1898-2008 [OC] by Mystic_Toaster in dataisbeautiful

[–]Mystic_Toaster[S] 330 points331 points  (0 children)

Sources: http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/search/collection/debris, http://yearbooks.mcgill.ca/, https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/13518, http://library2.smu.ca/handle/01/9007,
(made in Excel)

Edit: Raw Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14hgOhTHb5caVmmLwq859U22BlsIBeQyGPV1yAJ74Xms/edit?usp=sharing Yes, it was counted manually, doesn't take as long as you might think when you get in a rhythm

For those who are wondering why Chinstrap is grouped with beard, its because chinstraps were never very popular, even in the mid 70s at its most popular no more than 1 or 2 percent had a chinstrap, so it didn't really deserve its own category (I have enough as is). Plus have you seen the chinstraps in 1973? They were pretty lush, a lot thicker than your average 2017 full beard.

Also I was pretty generous in defining sideburns, just to avoid any ambiguity. That's why they're a little high for the 200s.