This is just plain cool.
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September 24th is also the anniversary of the birth (in 1724) of Arthur Guinness, the real patron saint of Ireland.
This article is reposted from the old Wordpress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science.
In Pine Plains New York, a gunman in his 40s, alone, has taken a high school administrator hostage, no shots have been fired, and it sounds like they are getting the students out of the school OK.
tags: Plain Chachalaca, Ortalis vetula,
Pretty cool ... but I'm not sure how useful it is.:)
I suppose if you were looking at data over a long period, or a short period with frequent and potentially large changes, this would be a good way to get a nice mental image of the total picture, and of how it changes. Especially if you spent a lot of time looking at roller coasters that represent data.
But it's mostly just really neat.