BVCC sends this in: “Has Leigh Rubin lost his marbles? Three CIDUs in a row. I almost get see something in Friday’s, with “load” having a scatological connotation. But it doesn’t seem like a joke to me. And I don’t get “horse property” or “Lilliputian Marines” at all.”
Here’s the earlier ones BVCC refers to:
A search for “horse property” pulls up this one: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3113-Camino-Del-Rancho-Encinitas-CA-92024/52510076_zpid/ Put in your bids now!
Your editor, a statistician, finds it interesting that the question of “where are there a lot of horses?” depends somewhat on how you map the data. All 3 maps are from Brilliant Maps, with the data originating with the USDA. For example, Fayette County, KY is #1 in horses per square mile, but not even in the top 10 in horses per capita.
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The first one is scatological humor. If you have to drop an oversized load, an oversized outhouse is where to do it.
I expect that due to scale, when Gulliver drops to do push-ups, he squishes the Lilliputian drill sergeant.
Loving County, Texas, is the least-populated county in the United States (population of 64 in the 2020 Census), so I suspect it would be in the Top 10 of a lot of per-capita lists. With 0.938 horses per capita in that county, now we know 60 horses live there.
Those charts are cool, but make perfect sense when you think about them: the last one shows where the horses are; the second to last one shows the same thing, but groups them by counties, which show up as a point, rather than as the area of the county like the first one, so a lot of very big counties and very small counties are both just dots, with the size of the dot indicating the number of horses per this pretty arbitrary grouping; if you sit back and squint, the last two maps show more or less the same general thing, though Texas, with lots of very large counties, is under-represented, and Kentucky, with smaller counties than Texas, shows more prominently, and one county in Indiana is massively over-represented. The first map is about horses in relation to people, and so shows something completely different. Out West, where there are a lot fewer people, they also tend to have more horses per those people (makes sense! that’s where the cowboys are!); in the East, there are a lot more people, so all those horses, even in Kentucky, get divvied up among those lots of people. Also, the first map the area of the county is shown, not a dot, so that one county in northern Indiana, which gets a massive dot in the other map, here only gets a very dark, relatively small, square. That one county has lots of people who have (relatively) lots of horses, but only there, it seems.
Surprised Kenedy County, TX isn’t a bit higher on the per capita ranking, as the bulk of the county is covered by property of the famous King Ranch.
#1 in per capita King County, TX, is no where near King Ranch… or the ranch’s namesake town of Kingsville (located in Kleberg County). Mismatched counties and places with the similar/same names are remarkably common in Texas; Houston isn’t in Houston County, Austin isn’t in Austin County, Tyler isn’t in Tyler County, Crockett isn’t in Crockett County, Terrell isn’t in Terrell County, Baylor University isn’t in Baylor County… among others. Of course, there are plenty of matched counties and places too (Dallas, El Paso, Victoria, Uvalde, etc.), but the number of mismatches is remarkable, especially with large cities named after well-known state founding fathers like Houston and Austin.
I own a horse property and had horses on it at one time although I don’t now. Basically it’s real estate that is or can be set up for horses, with stables, pasture and so on. I don’t know if there is a legal definition. Laws vary by state, and in some states you may be able to own a horse even though you have absolutely the minimum requirements to take care of it. I don’t recommend owning a horse unless you have a proper shelter for it, at least a half acre of pasture and another horse to keep it company.
zbcyclist, do you know anywhere I can find good charts that’s not on Instagram. I try not to use social media very much, but I hear the siren song of good graphs
Chak: http://www.graphjam.com ?
Not only that, but they can’t make a uniform large enough, so he will always be out of uniform. The sergeant doesn’t want to admit that, so he tries to convince Gulliver it’s still his fault, while avoiding the personal injury of the normal punishment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ is also a good way to browse fun graphs.