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/ breaks.csv
Created
May 4, 2026 22:08
World Snooker Crucible: ggplot figures from snooker.org century data (R + CSV)
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| Year | Centuries | High | Break_Makers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 81 | |||
| 2025 | 107 | 147 | Mark Allen | |
| 2024 | 63 | 142 | Jackson Page, Mark J Williams and Ricky Walden | |
| 2023 | 90 | 147 | Kyren Wilson and Mark Selby | |
| 2022 | 109 | 147 | Neil Robertson | |
| 2021 | 108 | 144 | Shaun Murphy | |
| 2020 | 79 | 147 | John Higgins | |
| 2019 | 100 | 143 | John Higgins | |
| 2018 | 84 | 146 | John Higgins |
cavedave
/ simon_wager
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March 16, 2026 18:48
Simon–Ehrlich wager what years would it have been won and lost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager data from https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center/historical-statistics-mineral-commodities-united
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| "start_year","end_year","start_value","end_value","change_value","pct_change","winner","winner_label","period","is_original_window" | |
| 1900,1910,1000,1057.58394685222,57.5839468522165,5.75839468522165,"Ehrlich","Ehrlich (prices rose)","1900->1910",FALSE | |
| 1901,1911,1000,1386.4192309077,386.4192309077,38.64192309077,"Ehrlich","Ehrlich (prices rose)","1901->1911",FALSE | |
| 1902,1912,1000,1341.73020560188,341.730205601884,34.1730205601884,"Ehrlich","Ehrlich (prices rose)","1902->1912",FALSE | |
| 1903,1913,1000,1487.37147860107,487.371478601067,48.7371478601067,"Ehrlich","Ehrlich (prices rose)","1903->1913",FALSE | |
| 1904,1914,1000,1135.6068795084,135.606879508398,13.5606879508398,"Ehrlich","Ehrlich (prices rose)","1904->1914",FALSE | |
| 1905,1915,1000,1881.17122655875,881.171226558753,88.1171226558753,"Ehrlich","Ehrlich (prices rose)","1905->1915",FALSE | |
| 1906,1916,1000,2024.47833008782,1024.47833008782,102.447833008782,"Ehrlich","Ehrlich (prices rose)","1906->1916",FALSE | |
| 1907,1917,1000,1527.06554576622,527.06554576622,52.706554576622," |
cavedave
/ bigbags.py
Last active
March 23, 2026 18:20
Skittles charts: fun-size (Clare Wallace Excel) + full-size packs (possibly-wrong/skittles). https://www.clarewallace.co.uk/skittles | https://github.com/possibly-wrong/skittles | https://github.com/cavedave/skittles
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| """ | |
| Skittles Analysis — Possibly Wrong dataset | |
| ------------------------------------------- | |
| Analyzes 468 full-size Skittles packs from the possibly-wrong dataset. | |
| Same chart style as the Clare Wallace fun-size analysis. | |
| Source: https://github.com/possibly-wrong/skittles | |
| Usage: | |
| pip install pandas matplotlib |
cavedave
/ ausCoal.py
Created
March 1, 2026 01:15
Australia coal for electricity Based on https://gist.github.com/cavedave/a5bc2d064a6273dffca6da7335a73ab1 based on guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/may/25/the-power-switch-tracking-britains-record-coal-free-run
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| """ | |
| Extract coal electricity generation (TWh) by year from Ember data. | |
| China coal can use monthly or yearly data; World uses yearly. | |
| """ | |
| import argparse | |
| import pandas as pd | |
| from pathlib import Path |
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| start_date,end_date,speaker,role,horizon,claim,source,source_url | |
| 1992-10-01,1999-12-31,Shimon Peres,Israeli FM,"by 1999","Iran ""set to have nuclear warheads by 1999"" (as reported in later timelines).",The Christian Science Monitor,https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1108/Imminent-Iran-nuclear-threat-A-timeline-of-warnings-since-1979/Israel-paints-Iran-as-Enemy-No.-1-1992 | |
| 1992-01-01,1997-12-31,Benjamin Netanyahu,Israeli MK,"within 3–5 years",Iran becoming autonomous in ability to develop/produce a nuclear bomb.,Al Jazeera,https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/6/18/the-history-of-netanyahus-rhetoric-on-irans-nuclear-ambitions | |
| 1993-02-01,1999-12-31,Benjamin Netanyahu,Israeli MK,"by 1999","In a Feb 1993 column (Yedioth Ahronoth) Netanyahu wrote that Iran would develop its first nuclear bomb by 1999.",Ynet,https://www.ynetnews.com/article/4633272 | |
| 1995-01-05,2000-01-05,Senior US & Israeli officials (quoted),quoted,"less than five years","""Less than five years away"" from having a nuclear bomb (quot |
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| import pandas as pd | |
| url = "https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/data/OECD.ELS.HD,DSD_HEALTH_LVNG@DF_HEALTH_LVNG_AC,1.0/.A.....?dimensionAtObservation=AllDimensions&format=csvfilewithlabels&startPeriod=1960" | |
| df = pd.read_csv( | |
| url, | |
| storage_options={ | |
| "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0" | |
| } | |
| ) |
cavedave
/ data-FdN4y.csv
Last active
February 17, 2026 16:27
us wedding costs by state data from https://www.markbroumand.com/pages/research-wedding-cost-and-marriage-length interestng paper diamonds are forever that goes into more individual data https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480
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| State | Average Wedding Cost | Average Marriage Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 34000 | 20.3 | |
| Arizona | 32000 | 20.6 | |
| Arkansas | 25000 | 19.4 | |
| California | 41000 | 19.9 | |
| Colorado | 34000 | 17.9 | |
| Connecticut | 44000 | 21.4 | |
| Delaware | 39000 | 21.9 | |
| DC | 42000 | 10.8 | |
| Florida | 34000 | 20.3 |
cavedave
/ space.csv
Created
February 8, 2026 21:53
Table 4 and 6 of this paper https://contactproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Earths-Evolving-Radio-Footprint_-A-Megawatt-Analysis-of-Anthropogenic-Emissions-into-Outer-Space-1900-2025.pdf turned into a graph
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| decade | global_stations | tv_power_escaping_mw | radio_power_escaping_mw | seti_detectable_mw | total_anthropogenic_rf_mw | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | 0.0005 | 0.005 | 0.0055 | 0.01 | |
| 1930s | 15 | 0.003 | 0.25 | 0.253 | 0.05 | |
| 1940s | 55 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1 | |
| 1950s | 550 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | |
| 1960s | 3000 | 30 | 2 | 32 | 40 | |
| 1970s | 7500 | 75 | 3 | 78 | 100 | |
| 1980s | 12500 | 125 | 4 | 129 | 165 | |
| 1990s | 17500 | 175 | 5 | 180 | 260 | |
| 2000s | 22500 | 125 | 6 | 131 | 300 |
cavedave
/ pasta.py
Created
February 7, 2026 15:41
pasta graph. Based on data from https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1qxdjxy/i_timed_how_long_31_different_pasta_shapes_take/
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| import re | |
| from io import StringIO | |
| import numpy as np | |
| import pandas as pd | |
| import matplotlib | |
| matplotlib.use("Agg") | |
| import matplotlib.pyplot as plt | |
| from matplotlib.colors import LinearSegmentedColormap | |
| DATA = """pasta\tbox time\tactual al dente\tdifference |
cavedave
/ supreme.r
Created
February 4, 2026 22:15
ideological leanings of current USA supreme court judges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_leanings_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_justices
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| install.packages("readr", quiet = TRUE) | |
| library(readr) | |
| data https://mqscores.wustl.edu/measures.php | |
| justices_df <- read_csv("justices.csv") | |
| library(dplyr) | |
| library(ggplot2) | |
| # 1. Sitting Justices as of 2026 | |
| keep <- c("CThomas", "SAAlito", "JGRoberts", "EKagan", "SSotomayor", |
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