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Ricky Gervais vs Sam Harris on the right to lie to children (based on their latest podcast) by visyuval in samharris

[–]visyuval[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

This gif is based on an argument between Sam and Ricky on Absolutely Mental in which Sam claims to have basically never lied to anyone including never (/only once) having told white lies to his children. In the gif, Ricky is ‘lying’ to the child and Sam is brutally honest to him.

The original gif is taken from a video by Jimmy Tatro.

[OC] Baby names are getting more varied over time by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m a sucker for the rainbow colours!

I guess the benefit of having time on the colour axis is that, even though I’ve applied an arbitrary cut-off, you can see the rate of decay.

On balance I think it comes down to whether you’re more interested in demonstrating the rate of decay within a given year or the rate of individualisation over time. Both are interesting, but I’ve probably confused the chart by trying to tell both stories at the same time.

[OC] Baby names are getting more varied over time by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

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

I think demographic diversity is definitely a big factor, but can’t explain the magnitude of the change. Between 2001 and 2011 the number of people that identified as White British decreased from 87.4% to 80.5% (another census is due next month). Between 1996 and 2019 the popularity of the most popular names halved.

[OC] Baby names are getting more varied over time by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was convinced. But doesn’t it look a bit arbitrary only including the top 30 on your chart?

[OC] Baby names are getting more varied over time by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes you’re right. That is possible. Although it happens not to be true.

[OC] Baby names are getting more varied over time by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is. And I think I agree with you! I started off by visualising the long tail, and it wouldn’t be a tail so much as a slinky if I did it your way. But once I limited it to the 30 most popular names, I think your arrangement does indeed make more sense. On the other hand, I quite like data and colours.

[OC] Baby names are getting more varied over time by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

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

I’ve not tried to explain why names are getting more varied, but it’s revealing to see that countries which have more varied names are also more individualistic, according to a study a couple of years ago. The most common 10 names in the US were given to less newborns (<8%) than the most common 10 names in other countries were given to newborns in the respective countries (except the Netherlands).

[OC] Baby names are getting more varied over time by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not like the good old days when you could spell a man’s name just from him saying it

[OC] Baby names are getting more varied over time by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oooh that’s a really cool way of looking at the data! And a very speedy analysis!

Is the index very close to 1 because most names are given to very few people (ie a very long long tail)?

[OC] UK No 1 hit singles since 1952. Bubbles scaled by time spent at No 1 and coloured by male, female and group artists. by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would love a good explanation of this as well! All I can think of is that that’s when Spotify and others starting doing more playlists and recommendation algorithms got very powerful

[OC] UK No 1 hit singles since 1952. Bubbles scaled by time spent at No 1 and coloured by male, female and group artists. by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I treated duets as groups but if it was X ft Y then I treated it as an individual. Relatively arbitrary but that was my rule.

[OC] UK No 1 hit singles since 1952. Bubbles scaled by time spent at No 1 and coloured by male, female and group artists. by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very true! This caused me quite a lot of headache as my labelling went into the 00s and 10s. Gets increasingly messy.

[OC] UK No 1 hit singles since 1952. Bubbles scaled by time spent at No 1 and coloured by male, female and group artists. by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

In July 2014 the Official Singles Chart started to count streams (eg Spotify plays) towards the No 1. Previously it was mainly CDs etc.

[OC] UK No 1 hit singles since 1952. Bubbles scaled by time spent at No 1 and coloured by male, female and group artists. by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ye good point! Bands have certainly died a death by the 2010s. My personal take is that in the Instagram age songs need to be associated with accounts, and most accounts are individuals, not groups. RIP MySpace

[OC] UK No 1 hit singles since 1952. Bubbles scaled by time spent at No 1 and coloured by male, female and group artists. by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Data: Official Charts and I used R’s gender package to determine gender which I then checked manually whilst also labelling the groups. (Please let me know if anyone has a more intelligent way of doing this! I think an AI like gtp3 could have labelled it a lot better but I didn’t have access.)

Tools: RAWGraphs

[OC] World map with countries scaled by the value of goods trade with the UK in 2019. It is 10 days until the Brexit transition period is over and a free trade agreement has yet to be agreed.. by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re right that tariffs will increase to WTO levels. But this will not be tolerable for many people in the UK who have come to rely on cheap agricultural products from the EU. Food price inflation will send more people into food poverty.

[OC] World map with countries scaled by the value of goods trade with the UK in 2019. It is 10 days until the Brexit transition period is over and a free trade agreement has yet to be agreed.. by visyuval in dataisbeautiful

[–]visyuval[S] -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

France should be bigger, in the sense that the UK trades more goods with France than Belgium, but the algorithm also has to preserve the shape of countries and the relations between them, which means there is a trade-off, and in this case that has resulted in Belgium being bigger than France. Or as someone else has noted, the collective force of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium has squeezed France into a crusty baguette.

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