Sunday, September 10th, 2006
6-year Old’s Drawing of Sept 11th Terrorist Attack
See my little sister’s drawing along with my father’s haiku.
Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Babynamewizard.com has a tool called NameVoyager that shows a graph of popular baby names over time. The data is massaged out of the Social Security Administration’s records. The really cool thing is that you can type parts of names and get instant feedback as the popularity graphs change. It’s fun to explore — check it out.
The plots show the 1000 most popular names versus time whre the popularity axis is the number of names per million babies. When looking at the “all names” graph (the first graph that comes up as you visit the website), it’s interesting to see observe an upward trend in name diversity since the 50’s. This trend shows up directly as the thickness of many name-lines decreases and indirectly because the overall number of top 1000 names displayed goes down. In the 50’s, 95% of the names were in the top 1000 while in 2005 only about 75% were in the top 1000. Go find interesting trends.
(via David Pogue)
