Interesting graphs and charts department

[BigV]

OK, let's put this infographic here.

http://swanh.net

[glatt]

Originally Posted by BigV

OK, let's put this infographic here.

http://swanh.net

Did you look at the whole thing?

[xoxoxoBruce]

My colleague Robert Allison finds the most interesting data sets to visualize! Yesterday he posted a visualization of toothless seniors in the US. More precisely, he created graphs that show the estimated prevalence of adults (65 years or older) who have had all their natural teeth extracted. The dental profession calls these people edentulous. According to the CDC, about 20% of seniors (more than 35 million Americans) are edentulous.

When I looked at his sorted bar chart, I noticed that the states that had the most toothless seniors seemed to be poorer states such as West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In contrast, richer states such as Colorado, Connecticut, and Hawaii had a relatively small number of toothless seniors. I wondered whether there was a correlation between median income in a state and the number of edentulous individuals.

Rob always publishes his SAS programs, so I used his data and merged it with the state median household income (2-year-average medians) as reported by the US Census Bureau. Then I used the SGPLOT procedure to plot the incidence of toothlessness (with lower and upper confidence intervals) versus the median state incomes. I also added a loess curve as a visual smoother to the data, as follows:

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Makes sense to me that lower income people, due to diet and ability to pay for timely repair/maintenance, would have a larger percentage of edentulous codgers.

[glatt]

Good old West Virginia. They may not be the poorest, but by God, they are going to represent in the toothless maw segment.

[xoxoxoBruce]

West Virginia is tied at #39 with Nevada, for dentists per capita. Of course Nevada has more money and probably a better diet.
#1? DC, of course. They need a lot of dentists to make those smiles, plus half the population has two faces.

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[Clodfobble]

Arkansas and Florida aren't doing too bad, all things considered.

[Spexxvet]

I read years ago that West Virginia has the fewest teeth per capita.

[Gravdigr]

People in Massachusetts, it seems, can't spell it...

[classicman]

Texas = Niece ... bwahahahahahaaa

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, but to be fair they pronounce it differently.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Wiki says...

Hipmunk has a worldwide audience of 130,000 visitors per month according to DoubleClick Ad Planner. Those visitors generate about 900,000 page views.[17] The median Hipmunk user is a male, 35–44 years of age, has a Bachelor's degree, and is making a middle-range income of $75,000-$99,000. According to the report, top audience interests are venture capital, development tools, and travel agencies and services, suggesting a computer-savvy demographic and culture.

[Gravdigr]

[xoxoxoBruce]

Metal Bands in Europe...

[Gravdigr]

If Russia attacked Italy from behind, would Greece help?

[xoxoxoBruce]

2,000 American companies — excluding the financial sector — and found their cumulative cash reserves have reached a staggering $1.84 trillion. The kicker is that the top 25 companies — roughly the top 1 percent of U.S. corporations — control 51 percent of that cash. And in a development that mirrors the "fractal inequality" amongst individual Americans, just the top five companies — Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google's parent corporation), Cisco, and Oracle — controlled a third.

Market Watch
Moody's came out with a parallel report. Slightly different numbers but same effect.