Was in Cambridge, MA, just a few weeks back. Great place to hang, but the rents are just bonkers.

https://www.apartments.com/park-151-cambridge-ma/dknxy6k/

A scatterplot would probably work better.

I did a lot of testing on this because of a problem I was having with a TV. So I was testing wired vs wireless on my FIOS. I get screaming down speeds (800mb/s+) wired. Running ASUS Mesh wi-fi 6 I get 300mb down and just about the same up.

Good sized house, 3 TVs all wireless and tones of devices.

Yes... parent education attainment and SES are huge drivers of kids' educational outcomes. Many of those kids, with those parents, would've done pretty well, no matter what.

Thanks for those last two sentences. That's really where it's at, for me.

Even at our very challenged public school, the kids who have grit and drive end up at Harvard, Brown, and so on. The amount of money people are spending to stay in their bubble is a headscrstcher to me.

Thanks for the post and the link. This would look quite a bit different if we just used the past 30 years.

The whole page has a black background, which is why it has that windowpane look to it.

I ain't gonna argue with the love of beef, but..

1. Bad pie chart (too many values for readability)
2. Black backgrounds are a design I am constantly telling my teams to avoid (feels like 2004 design)
3. There's no takeaway (what am supposed to be learning from this? Maybe it's the ubiquity of Korean beef?)

Yeah. DC is a great visit for a long weekend. Museums typically aren't open on Mondays.

Finger Lakes region in NY state. The state park at Watkins Glen and the Corning Museum of Glass. Yep, don't sleep on the Corning Museum of Glass... crazy good and under the radar.

You can't say there's a spike if you don't have pre-pandemic data shown. Maybe the #'s were higher in 2018 for some reason. We'll never know.

Oh, and I do agree with your last statement, 100%.

Disagree on the school district. Our valedictorian last year is now at Harvard, 2nd is at Brown University, Villanova ,U Penn, you name it. Granted, some schools are better than others, but most of the bias is due to...well, bias. Kids who want to do well, do well. Others, whose parents aren't engaged...don't. These are truths in every school district.

Hi, neighbor!

Our house in E Norriton has doubled in value within past 7 years. Appreciation has been a bit slower than other places with unsustainable bubble prices. But that's not why I am here, though.

I think long prospects are good, even tho risk is real, right now

I have peeps right on that block near Elmwood Park. That's a nice spot. E. Norriton less risky, with nicer housing stock. Our home value is way up over past few years. I think that's the wrong way to think about it, but I get it.

Our kids have done great in Norristown schools but there's a lot of poor families who aren't engaged in their kid's education. Our valedictorian last year went to Harvard, 2nd went to Brown University, and so on. Kids do fine here if they want to. Rest of the hype is just people being uncomfortable in majority black/brown schools. Yeah, I said it.

PM if you wanna chat.

Mitch, pls. If you are trying to argue the diff between the Sheriff and the Police, that's a pretty thin blue line you're walking.

So which one is bigger, 2000's or 2010's? Can't tell.

A simple bar chart would've been more effective. Communicate the info effectively first and then try to make it arty.

Little confused here. The S&P 500 (SPX) was down almost 20% in 2022. What am I looking at here?

Hey, look, another viz about billionaires.

Fair enough. I just think it is the researcher's responsibility to understand if the definitions of "gun violence" and general reporting trends are directionally consistent across countries. If there are significant differences, then make some adjustments to the include/exclude rules and state them for your readers. If you don't do that, then we just spiral down into whataboutism in the thread. Also, we can't collectively draw any conclusions from your otherwise good work. Thanks for doing this.

Where is the "dive into the numbers" offered in the title? What a shitty article.

False choice - It could be expensive and still be open to the general public. Think people's issues are more around the literal and figurative gatekeeping, which you just demonstrated.