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This is a cool argument for the new (next season) 1 game playoff between the top two wild-card teams in the NL and AL, and why it should work

anyqs Simple question really. What size did the designer of this chart intend it to be? It would have to be pasted onto the moon for anybody to be able to read the font. #thinkofyouraudience

anyqs Do the bubbles in the middle that account for the average national debt of the economy take anything else into account? For example, the percentage of GDP that the national debt is would be a better statistic, in my opinion.

"anyqs" I'm very interested in how exactly the poll defines a "Republican-leaning independent". Was it self-reported? Were the subjects asked about their views on certain issues, and, if so, how was a "Republican" viewpoint determined? In addition, I'm curious as to what the sample size is for this data, as well as what a rough population number would be. For registered Republicans, I feel like this would be easy to calculate, but it would be rather difficult to determine the population size for "Republican-leaning independents" depending on what method was used.

That's a pretty nice segmented bar chart on the right.

anyqs: I would like to know how big the sample size was. Also, how many of the participants are actual college students? I'd like to see the data on purely college students.

anyqs: I would definitely like to see some more info on this, the things mentioned above as well as what N/A actually means. Does it mean non drinker? Also I'm guessing that they did not poll anyone under 21. I think there's more non-drinkers than drinkers under 21 but including that group would certainly change things (most likely lessen the wine numbers). Finally, it's not a big deal but the 36% for beer in 2011 appears higher up on the graph than the 36% in 2005.

There's a slightly higher-quality version of this talk on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w.

Worldwide locations and sales of Starbucks and McDonalds

anyqs Is the growth of Starbucks in multiple countries similar to what McDonald's growth was earlier? If so, how closely do the growths match, and can we expect Starbucks to eventually be as ubiquitous as McDonalds?

anyqs The size of each bubble is confusing. The size of the ones for McDonald's and Starbuck's are very similar, but if looked at closely, are actually different. This leads to questions about the relative presence of each corporation in each region. Also the range that is covered by the McDonald's circles are greater than that of Starbuck's. I know that this visualization is just to show the relativity in size between the two companies, but the information given is hard to translate. My question is, did they make the circles similar on purpose to show the similarities between the spread of the companies, or was it just because the overall range of Starbuck's presence was smaller than McDonald's?

every instance of the phrase "is the new" encountered from various sources in 2005

how active was the libreoffice suit when it started

anyqs This is one of the most creative visualizations I've ever seen. I would be very interested to know more about the point at which Earth simply can't handle more people (as depicted by the nearly overflowing vials). Asia's vial, for example, is nearly filled to the brim by the year 2015, indicating that it will start to overflow soon. Does this mean that Asia's population growth will have to slow down before that of other continents? All the vials are the same size in this representation, but I would be curious to see which vial fills up first if the size of each vial was adjusted to represent a "theoretical maximum capacity" for each continent/country (based on available land, available resources, average consumption rates, etc.). From an execution standpoint, I think it would be useful to see a table of values with population growth rates for each continent/country, particularly because the vials mainly indicate relative rates. anyqs

anyqs This was pretty cool the first time around. I like the use of the glasses, but the way they have China, India and the rest of Asia in separate cups. How does the way they break up the world into regions affect the data? The separations make sense when trade/communication were minimal. But in the last 200 years, the most dramatic time, the importance of location in the data diminishes. Like Irene said, I also thought the "max capacity" of the cups was misleading. I like the part at the end where the world cup it about to overflow but I don't think it works with the individual cups.