Magic by Zato Novo

¿Es posible realizar un mapa de la distribución y frecuencia estadística de los nombres de los empadronados en un extenso territorio?. Bueno, a la antigua usanza, a mano, se tardaría años. Tal vez décadas. Por eso me ha gustado tanto la información sobre el trabajo de la empresa de diseño de programas (software) Zato Novo. Detrás se encuentra la imaginación de Brian Lee, Les dejo el link. Mola.

"Using US census data this map looks at how names have grown and waned in popularity in different states since the early 1900s. Creator Brian Lee Yung Rowe points out in a blog post how certain names are broadly used, while others are much more popular in specific geographical areas.

Put a name into the box and choose whether you want to look at male or female names. The states will be highlighted according to the proportion of the babies called that name. We really like this map because it allows you to clearly see the spread of a single name but the colour scale does depend on the basis of each individual one's popularity so be wary of making comparisons"

Who made this? Brian Lee Yung Rowe of Zato Novo

The Laboratory

• Popularity of baby names over time - Interactive visualization of the popularity of baby names for the past century
• Telltale - What influential people are talking about

Working Papers

• Rowe, Brian Lee Yung. Modeling Data With Functional Programming In R. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. To be published in 2015.
• Rowe, Brian Lee Yung. Detecting regime change in irregular time series.
• Rowe, Brian Lee Yung. Power law properties of Twitter tweet behavior.
• Rowe, Brian Lee Yung.