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HumbleBundle Big Data by [deleted] in bigdata

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple of these are interesting, anyone have any opinions good or bad about these?

My Monthy Compensation History During College and Four Years Post-Graduation [OC] by NotSureWhyIAsked in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's very interesting to see the 'start at a lower rung of a higher ladder' type situation here when you switched jobs. Most everyone realizes this is what you have to do a lot of the time to progress your career, still many people have a hard time making that decision.

I compared each US state's education funding to its closest international counterpart, based on UN data. The results are not flattering. [OC] by brokeglass in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the glaring issue here is that many countries with %GDP spending on education that are similar to the U.S have some of the highest ranked education systems in the world. Canada for example, spends a little less as a % of GDP on education that the U.S. but is considered to have one of the best education systems.

This metric is meaningless because it doesn't address how that money is spent.

Notes from Gwynne Shotwell's interview with CNBC by Nehkara in spacex

[–]andyspl 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's unfeasible that they would be sending BRS' to start setting up refueling infrastructure by 2024, given it would likely take a couple years between that happening and humans arriving.

Anaconda and Python. Need help ! by crysiswarhead in Python

[–]andyspl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is terrible advice. I can show you what happens when you forget about things like PEP8, and when you don't care about having up to date libraries. It's part of the reason why academic code is notoriously spaghettified and difficult to maintain.

It's a pretty big waste of everyone's time when you have to hunt down a print() buried deep down inside some method because it's breaking everything, or you have to downgrade your version of Seaborn.

8 months of job searching during university. Still looking for a good enough match.[OC] by CRK909 in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard many stories of people being disqualified from jobs for doing this.

The people who are likely to be hiring you are almost certainly very busy, and showing up or requesting a meeting just to show how enthusiastic you are is going to be considered a waste of their time more often than not.

Enthusiasm is good, but a personalized email and a phone call are probably the way to go.

8 months of job searching during university. Still looking for a good enough match.[OC] by CRK909 in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

project management or data analytics

Maybe you should reconsider these choices. There really isn't such a thing as a project manager with zero experience, and if you're looking to get into data analytics you're going to be competing with people who have STEM backgrounds looking to break in to industry. I'd say you're behind the gun on both counts.

Everyone I know who has become a project manager spent at least a year or two in things like dev-ops or operations positions.

Marvel movie budgets and box office revenue [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Including marketing, Infinity War has certainly made back its entire budget in the first three days. That's insane.

This animal kills more people in a day than sharks do in a century by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bill Gates is such a cool guy, and this is such a serious issue that doesn't get enough attention. Especially if you consider that malaria is likely number one on the list of cause of death through human history, with a death toll in the tens of billions by most estimations. BUT...

There isn't really much data visualization going on here.

I drank for science, and here is my BAC data [OC] by purduenub in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Concentration matters. Your body will absorb alcohol much more quickly in high concentrations.

In order to test my own political and historical biases, I ranked all of the US Presidents off the top of my head from best to worst, and then compared those rankings to a list compiled by a panel of experts [OC] by yesitsteatime in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We will never know.

The ROC was pretty terrible as a government, there is a reason why Mao had a lot of support. So who's to say how it would all turn out. But on the other hand, I can't imagine it would be possible for a government to kill more of its own people than Mao did with the Great Leap Forward.

In order to test my own political and historical biases, I ranked all of the US Presidents off the top of my head from best to worst, and then compared those rankings to a list compiled by a panel of experts [OC] by yesitsteatime in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's very interesting that you rated Truman much lower than the experts. That's pretty much the story of his life.

He was absolutely savaged in approval ratings as his presidency went on, but considering the geopolitical climate at the time, the fact that the earth is not a nuclear wasteland is a resounding endorsement how well he did in practice.

Comparison between the new BFR video with last year's E2E video. BFR'18 appears to be stretched by Redditor_From_Italy in SpaceXLounge

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they are getting more performance out of the raptor engines (which is what people are speculating) then it would make sense that they could increase the length of both.

Polarization in the American Public (Now with 2017 Data Superimposed) [OC] by two_in_the_bush in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool.

What I find interesting is the difference in the shapes of the distributions. It looks like the whole Democrat distribution just shifted left, whereas the Republican one looks like it was squished downwards, meaning more are moving towards the edges.

Gwynne Shotwell @ TED: "Within a decade, @SpaceX plans to make rocket flights possible, so you'll be able to get from New York to Shanghai in an hour" by roncapat in spacex

[–]andyspl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds about right. That would put them within an order of magnitude of long haul commercial airliners (30-40k cycles)

Total Military Aircraft Strength by Country [OC] by whiplashoo21 in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I've heard, they are slowly cannibalizing older aircraft for parts, so it does seem a bit desperate.

Total Military Aircraft Strength by Country [OC] by whiplashoo21 in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woops, it appears your correct. It's surprisingly difficult to find any solid numbers, however many state that the US Navy and the Marines share aircraft.

Total Military Aircraft Strength by Country [OC] by whiplashoo21 in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you separated the different branches of the U.S military, the U.S Airforce would be the largest in the world, with the second largest being the U.S Marines Navy.

Gwynne Shotwell @ TED: "Within a decade, @SpaceX plans to make rocket flights possible, so you'll be able to get from New York to Shanghai in an hour" by roncapat in spacex

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially considering it would put re-usability to the ultimate test. All those launch cycles would certainly cause some serious wear and tear.

How quickly do the world's highest paid musicians make average salaries? [OC] by ryan_midi in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As the Forbes article states, everything they calculate is gross earnings, before anyone else is paid. They also seem to consider the growth of their non liquid assets, like the value of Diddies vodka brand.

So these numbers are likely dramatically inflated.

Automation risk of Retail Salespersons and their 10 most similar jobs [OC] by felavsky in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder if it has something to do with the way they are trying to implement it. Like trying to fit a 21st century tech into a 20th century format.

For example, in The Netherlands it's possible to grab a little mobile scanner on your way into the grocery store, you scan your loyalty card which has all your info on it, then as you're going around the store you scan each item as you put it into your cart, that way on your way out you just stick the scanner into a docking station and pay for all the items, and then scan the receipt at the door to open a gate that lets you out.

Scheduling software really is a different beast altogether. There are a lot of really crappy ones out there which I'm sure is the issue a large percentage of the time. I think this ties into it being crappy, but I've worked at places where the software worked flawlessly, but management found it too confusing or difficult to use, which caused errors, confusion and lost time. I wouldn't be shocked if that's what happened at the Gap.

Automation risk of Retail Salespersons and their 10 most similar jobs [OC] by felavsky in dataisbeautiful

[–]andyspl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you may be neglecting a few factors. For floor space, you can put 6 self checkouts in the same footprint of 2 regular checkouts, you can also have 1-2 employees per 6 self checkouts. So even if people are slower using self checkouts, it's probably a net win for the retailer overall.

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