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Shapefiles of Mexico (AGEBs, Manzanas, etc)


My post on how to download electoral shapefiles proved to be very popular, so I decided to create another script to download shapefiles of census geographies.

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Weird dietary habits in the US

Using this database of food consumption data the blog Canibais e Reis kindly put together, I calculated all values for which the US was at least 2 standard deviations from the world average.

Here are the outliers in standard deviations from the world mean:

Poultry.Meat..kcal.day…2003 2 ...


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Corruption indicators in Mexico

As you can see there is only a slight positive correlation between the corruption index of the Mexican chapter of Transparency International and the percentage of students who cheated on the Grade 6 ENLACE test*. What I find surprising is that there is a negative correlation between GDP per capita ...
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L.A. Cetto 2003

Water distilled from the miasmas of the marshes in Mexico City with a drop of lemon juice. Yuck!
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