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Human influenza A(H1N1) deaths by education and hospital

Most people who died from influenza had very little education, but then most people in Mexico have very little education, according to the OECD the educational attainment for all of Mexico is not much different (considering the small sample sizes) from the people 58 people who had died when I ...

Human influenza A(H1N1) statistics

A time series of confirmed influenza cases in Mexico. The steep decline started 3 days after the schools in Mexico City were closed.

Unlike the normal flu, the number of deaths caused by the new virus occurs mainly in those between 20-54 years of age.

A time series of the ...


Google Trends and the Flu

Searches for “influenza” (blue) and “gripa” (red) in the Distrito Federal (Mexico City). The uptick since March 22 in influenza searches was not statistically significant. Funny how the news volume went way up in last days of April ;)
(the first flu case in Mexico ...

El Parque de Aqua

South Park should do an episode on the drug war, I can only dream

How Religious is Mexico?

Wow, I didn’t expect Mexicans to be so religious, I don’t think any of my friends go to mass more than once a month. The data came from the World Values Survey and the graphs were made with Verifiable which makes much prettier stacked bar charts than Excel ...

Sentence of the Day

Karatani’s answer to Marx’s lacunae on the state in Capital is to read his methodology transcritically, as a pronounced parallax of constant transposition in which the principle of association undoes the unholy trinity of capital, nation, and state

R in the New York Times

Must be a slow news day because the New York Times has an article about the statistical software R. Israel was right to take advantage of the holiday news lull to invade Gaza.

R first appeared in 1996, when the statistics professors Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman of the University ...



Concha y Toro Trio

Concha y Toro: Trio 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, and Cabernet Franc Poor Shiraz, alone amongst the Cabernets must feel trapped like Odysseus between Scylla and Charybdis, ha ha ha. It was actually pretty good.

Mariachi

Yet even by WaMu’s relaxed standards, one mortgage four years ago raised eyebrows. The borrower was claiming a six-figure income and an unusual profession: mariachi singer. Mr. Parsons could not verify the singer’s income, so he had him photographed in front of his home dressed in his mariachi ...

Distribuidor Vial Muyuguarda: Antes y Después

13 de Diciembre, 2006: El área natural protegida Ejidos de Xochimilco antes de la contrucción del Distribuidor Vial Muyuguarda

29 de Noviembre, 2008: Después de la construcción del Distribuidor Vial Muyuguarda

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