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EmperorZwerg1995 t1_j51nbzo wrote

This is weirdly satisfying data for me for some reason, thank you. If it wasn’t too time consuming, would there be any chance you could add in Rogue One and Solo? Rogue One I’m particularly curious about because of Donnie Yen’s intentionally repetitive “I am one with the force, the force is with me” line

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insufferablyaverage t1_j51erjf wrote

Only way to do that is to make the following year the hottest or coldest by a mile so that it shifts the entire bar so much that it remains well above or well below the rest of the datapoints, evem absolutely 0 won't be enough to shift the bar majorly so we should throw the earth into the sun to free the data points

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turtle4499 t1_j5164an wrote

>Hs in the later 1980s. Heroin was unheard of.

Heroin has been a popular drug in the US since the 1800s. The heroin overdose spike in the 2010 is from synthetic opioids. Synthetic opioids like fent weren't being pulled into there own column until 2014 and I don't believe it was in full until later.

The CDC isn't classifying data in a way people are using it. The groups are non exclusive. If you OD while on heroin, fent and vicodin you land in all 3 groups.

https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/data/analysis-resources.html

>Given the surge in availability of IMF starting in 2013, the CDC Injury Center began analyzing synthetic opioids (other than methadone) separately from other prescription opioids for 2014 mortality data. This analysis provides a more detailed understanding of the increase in different categories of opioid deaths.

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DarreToBe t1_j50ufwe wrote

I wonder how much of this you could attribute to herding in daily approval rating polls that are released by polling organizations. I know it's something 538 and other polling aggregators and observers have been talking about on an ongoing basis, so there's probably no full answer, but I am more curious if it is more "real" to have more variability day to day.

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infegy OP t1_j50nbmf wrote

Data:
Social Media data sourced from Infegy, a consumer intelligence platform that collects, analyzes, and visualizes billions of social media posts.
Polling average from FiveThirtyEight’s summary of Joe Biden’s approval rating, available here: FiveThirtyEight- How Popular/Unpopular is Joe Biden?

Explanation:

This visualization tracks the aggregate average of online sentiment for posts across the internet discussing Joe Biden from January 1, 2021 through the present (n=74,409,409 individual posts). I compared that with the moving average from FiveThirtyEight’s How Popular/Unpopular is Joe Biden?
The original idea for this graph came from a Politico article that said that after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, Joe Biden’s popularity began to slip (Politico - Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal Anniversary).
Interestingly, it looks like aggregate sentiment data form social media bears that out to some degree. Biden’s sentiment online drops as the Taliban began their advance. That drop in sentiment is matched with a drop FiveThirtyEight’s polling.
Overall though, it appears that social media data is more reactive, but less durable than traditional polling. Negative/Positive stories break in the news, which causes sentiment to go up or down.

Tools:
Python (Pandas and Matplotlib)

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dasubermensch83 t1_j50kdox wrote

Oh I'm not apathetic about legalization at all. Morally, logically, and economically some kind of radical departure form the status quo is long overdue. The worst side effects of many criminalized drugs is being forced into a cage for days, weeks, or possibly the rest of your life. This has wrought nothing except decades of unconscionable human misery, all for nothing. I don't think most people recognize just how awful current policy is.

The once-great History Channel did a series called 'Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way'. Its prob on youtube now. Its great. I just wanted to point out that each drug has its own logic for regulation, and cultural differences in drug use need to be accounted for.

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