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Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by sbierwagen »

tommoor wrote: post #10
tommoor wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not wrong, this is incredibly hard to parse.

As far as I can tell most groups seem to marry Elementary school teachers

Part of the problem is that each profession isn't scaled to how many people are in it. "47-5031 Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters" had a total employment of 7,970 in 2012, but there were 1,353,020 people employed as "25-2021 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education"

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes475031.htm http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252021.htm

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by 1wheel »

casca wrote: post #57

If anyone wants to improve the usability, data files are: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/job-... http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/pair...

I collected the raw files used from the American Community Survey: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByZIeqREehZySFg3MTdo...

It looks like I forgot to check in the R script used to process the .dat files to my gist https://gist.github.com/1wheel/a8e65b1576b750c5e3e3, but I'll add it when I get home.

We also tried to use salary info like the magazine version https://twitter.com/adamrpearce/status/697844614754123776 did, but had some problems with slighty different occuptation categories: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/sala...

Interested to see what people come up with! This is a super interesting, rich data set that deserves much more than what I've done.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by fensterblick »

1wheel wrote: post #112
elorant wrote: post #21

The usability of the page is pathetic. First, the fonts are too small. If you enlarge then you can't scroll horizontally to see the rest of the titles because the lines get in the way. Didn't anyone think to make the graph clickable instead of just mouse-over. And on top of everything we have the heading of the site that floats and gets in the way. Fucking hell. Someone saw the graph and said, wow let's just use it b…

> Someone saw the graph and said, wow let's just use it because it looks awesome. Close to what happened! The magazine graphic ( https://twitter.com/adamrpearce/status/697844614754123776 ) was finished before I started on the web version, and I just had a couple of days to make something that could go online. I initially tried a more sort of 538/scatterplot/analysis approach, but wasn't making a ton of progress. I st…

I thought it was creative, entertaining and different than the usual boring charts. It's not perfect but I still liked it!

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by erroneousfunk »

auntyJemima wrote: post #74
peter303 wrote: post #22

Business Insider has run several articles of the urban college female "problem". With 30% more females obtaining college degrees currently than males plus that males generally dont marry up, there is a surplus of 20-something college females in all metropolitan areas except San Francisco and Washington DC. Good news for guys then. One silly article tried explain the success of hookup apps is that more desperate femal…

Males generally dont marry up? Couple things come to mind. Throughout my time, I've seen that women have their fair share of not wanting to marry down either. You want to say generalizations generalizations. Sure, but I think the age old stereotypes do have a hint of truth to them and the Bloomberg page here also states, "High-earning women (doctors, lawyers) tend to pair up with their economic equals, while middle-…

Well, anecdotal evidence to match your anecdotal evidence: I'm a female with a master's in software engineering and am marrying a guy with one semester of music school who's been a social worker for 10 years, in the spring.

But less anecdotally: for the first time in history, the percent of couples in which the woman has obtained a higher level of education than the man is higher than the other way around: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/12/record-share... Keep in mind that this is ALL couples, whether they were married last month, or 50 years ago, so the trend can be expected to lag behind current graduation trends. So both men and women seem to be figuring it out, your sister aside.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by erroneousfunk »

joehilton wrote: post #84
nilkn wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of all the lines starting at 'Dancers and Choreographers' which are initially red, the thickest one is by far the one that is blue at the other end and ends at 'Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Workers'. I think that's the intended way of drawing that conclusion from the graph. Overall I'm satisfied with the visualization itself, but it would be nice to have more sorting options.

This is one of the interesting connections on the chart. My theory (being an ex-welder as well as a dancer) is that both of these are strongly one-gender dominated professions - almost all my welding friends were male and almost all my dancing friends were female (in three different states no less). And for the majority of marriages up to this point in largely heterosexual historical data, you don't meet many people…

Or perhaps they were just inspired by Flashdance?

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by OJFord »

yorwba wrote: post #127

I wonder what difference between "Software Developers" and "Computer Programmers" causes the former to marry mostly within themselves and the latter to prefer nurses, teachers and secretaries.

If it's self-described, that's maybe even more interesting.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by [deleted] »

peter303 wrote: post #22

Business Insider has run several articles of the urban college female "problem". With 30% more females obtaining college degrees currently than males plus that males generally dont marry up, there is a surplus of 20-something college females in all metropolitan areas except San Francisco and Washington DC. Good news for guys then. One silly article tried explain the success of hookup apps is that more desperate femal…

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