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April 23, 2013

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2:30 PM | Which Drugs Actually Kill Americans [Infographic]

U.S. drug-related deaths, over time Katie PeekHint: not pot In 2010, there were 80,000 drug and alcohol overdose deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER database. The database, maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics, keeps a tally of all the deaths listed on certificates nationwide. They're classified by the ICD-10 medical coding reference system. Death reporting in the U.S. requires an underlying cause-the event or disease that […]

March 26, 2013

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2:00 PM | Google Flu Trends Misrepresented the Severity of This Year's Flu Season [Infographic]

Google's Flu Trends, mapped Katie PeekA cautionary tale about the limitations of big data Last year, we wrote about Flu Trends, Google's search engine-based influenza barometer. The takeaway: after calibrating its results against the numbers from the Centers for Disease Control--which are based on emergency-room visits--Google did a pretty good job of predicting a flu outbreak, and did so quickly, without having to wait for all those hospital reports to reach the CDC and be compiled into a […]

January 31, 2013

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9:44 PM | By The Numbers: The U.S.'s Warmest Year Yet [Infographic]

A PopSci interactive of the 30,854 record-breaking highs recorded across the country in 2012 In the U.S., 2012 was the warmest year since national record keeping began in 1895. From January through December, the 4,451 U.S. weather stations that have been tracking temperatures for at least 30 years measured nearly 31,000 high-temperature records but only 5,900 lows. That's the largest ratio of high to low records ever. "There is a lot of natural variability in these numbers," says Claudia […]

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