Not much for today. The morning was spent correcting files for a brilliant job. It was more brilliant than the designer was (actually they are pretty good so part of the time was spent wondering what exactly they meant to do while fighting off the thoughts of "this is exactly how they wanted it").
Lies, damnable lies, and statistics. Or in this case how to lie with maps. You may have seen the 2016 election electoral maps and it's wide swaths of red. It's the one the president has hanging in the White House to show how great his victory is. But maps can also lie. In the link a cartographer takes the same data, but generates several kinds of maps which show differing "truths." The 3D map is very interesting. (Grokked from Dan)
"Republican Rep. Jason Lewis has repeatedly demeaned recipients of welfare and government assistance, calling them 'parasites" and "scoundrels,' and said the black community had 'traded one plantation for another.'" Nice people, eh? (Grokked from Jim Wright)
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