Random charts - health trends

 

Source: Stanford Medicine 2018 Health Trends Report: The Democratization of Health Care (19-pg PDF)

Random chart - EV sales

Source: Federal EV Tax Credit Phase Out Tracker By Automaker

Random charts - trust

 

 

Source: How's Life? 2017: Measuring Well-Being

Random chart - Jobs

Source: Public and Private Sector Payroll Jobs: Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama

Random charts - wage inequality

 

 

Source: Wage inequality continued its 35-year rise in 2015

"Key findings include:

• While real hourly wages (i.e., wages adjusted for inflation) grew across the board in 2015, this is largely due to a sharp dip in inflation; growth in nominal wages (i.e., wages unadjusted for inflation) has not accelerated. This dip in inflation is unlikely to be a durable source of future real wage gains.
  • Nominal wage growth of 2.2 percent remains below a level where workers would reap the benefits of economic growth.
  • There is no evidence of substantial acceleration of wages that would signal that the Federal Reserve Board should worry about incipient inflation and raise interest rates in an effort to slow the economy.

• Real hourly wage growth in 2015 was fastest at the top of the wage distribution, illustrating that wage inequality continued its 35-year rise last year.
  • The gap between the middle and bottom has remained stable since 2000.
  • The gap between the top and everyone else has grown.

• Looking at men and women separately, from 2014 to 2015, the strongest wage growth was at the top of the men’s wage distribution and at the bottom of the women’s wage distribution.
  • For men, wages at the 95th and 90th percentiles grew by 9.9 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively, compared with only 2.6 percent at the median.
  • While significant gender wage gaps remain across the wage distribution, there has been significant narrowing of the gap at the bottom and middle of the wage distribution since 2000.

• In 2015, faster low-wage wage growth occurred in states that increased their minimum wage.
  • The 10th percentile women’s wage grew 5.2 percent in states with legislated minimum-wage increases, compared with only 3.1 percent growth in states without any minimum-wage increase.

• Racial and ethnic wage gaps are on the rise at the top of the wage distribution.
  • Between 2014 and 2015, white wage growth was at least as fast as black wage growth at all deciles, and was far stronger at the top than at the middle or bottom.
  • Wage growth at the bottom of the Hispanic wage distribution since 2000 greatly exceeded that of low-wage black workers, who actually experienced losses over that period.
  • Regardless of race or ethnicity, within-group inequality has risen since 2000, with stronger growth at the top than at the bottom.

• Over 2000–2015, wage growth was faster among the more educated, but not fast enough to explain growing wage inequality.
  • For both men and women, those with less than a college degree had lower wages in 2015 than in 2007.
  • While there has been a slow narrowing of gender wage gaps for those with less than a college degree since 2000, gender wage gaps continued to grow among those with an advanced degree..."

Random charts - U.S. crime rates

 

Source: Is Violent Crime in the United States Increasing? (13-pg PDF)

"... Overall,homicide and violent crime rates have been trending downward for more than two decades, and both rates are at historic lows.. An analysis comparing 2014 and 2015 homicide data from the nation’s 60 most populous cities suggests that violent crime is not increasing. Overall,reported homicides were up 16% in 2015, but a majority of cities (44 of 60) have not seen a statistically significant increase in homicides. The general consensus is that it is too early to draw any conclusions about the reversal of long-term trends..."

Random charts - divided

 

Source: Half in U.S. Continue to Say Gov't Is an Immediate Threat

Random charts - economies

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures of World Economies Summary of Results and Findings of the 2011 International Comparison Program (104-pg PDF)

Random charts - chess

 

Source: The key to Magnus Carlsen’s success as a chess grandmaster

Random chart - obesity

Source: Future diets: Implications for agriculture and food prices

"... Indeed, the world has seen an explosion in overweight and obesity in the past 30 years (Figure 1). Globally the percentage of adults who were overweight or obese grew from 23% in 1980 to 34% in 2008, with the vast majority of this increase seen in the developing world. Here, the numbers of people affected more than tripled, from around 250 million people in 1980 to 904 million in 2008. By contrast, the number of people who were overweight or obese in high-income countries increased 1.7 times over the same period. The evidence is well-established: obesity, together with excessive consumption of fat and salt, is linked to the rising global incidence of non-communicable diseases including some cancers, diabetes, heart disease and strokes. What has changed is that the majority of people who are overweight or obese today can be found in the developing, rather than the developed, world..."

Random chart - AGW

Source: Climate Expert von Storch: Why Is Global Warming Stagnating?

Random charts - healthcare design

Source: Healthcare Industry And Design Trends

Random charts - healthcare spend

Source: Accounting for the cost of U.S. health care: Pre-reform trends and the impact of the recession

Excellent, detailed, McKinsey report that "... sheds light on the underlying dynamics and trends shaping the health care industry in this period of rapid change and uncertainty..." A must read...

Random chart

Source: The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2011 to 2021

More fun with QR

Picture credit: Paris by Raspou Team

In Paris the group Raspouteam ran a “Paris, désordres publics” project, for which they created ceramic tiles with QR codes that they then affixed at select locations around the city (see the video below). The locations chosen were places which had historically been "... the scene of social or morally objectionable historic events. For example the drowning of the Moroccan immigrant Brahim Bouarram by a mob in 1995 or the notorious antisemitic exhibition during Nazi occupation at the Palais Berlitz in 1941..." (see here, here, and here)

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U.S. computer retailer Best Buy is now deploying QR codes on the product fact tags in all their stores, reports RetailGeek. "... The customer can use the QR Reader on their smartphone to get detailed information about the product they are considering. They can read consumer reviews, compare features with similar products, and e-mail details to a friend who might be giving advice..."

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A Canadian winery, Jackson Triggs Vintners, is now including QR codes on some of their wine labels, and it is reported that "... Consumers who scan the bottle's codes will be able to get information on the wine and link to detailed tasting notes, food pairing ideas, and link to the Facebook fan page and the Jackson Triggs website..."

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Google's Mobile blog highlights Google applications, such as Google Sky Map and Google Shopper... Prominently displayed QR codes take you to the Android marketplace to download the applications...

Meanwhile in Japan, Japanese Use Cell Phone QR Bar Code Readers to Check Food Safety, something implemented as far back as 2005!

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Previous barcode-related blog entries:
Misc. QR - Nov 19th, 2010
BB QR Code Scanner Pro - Nov 18th, 2010
Random charts - Nov18th, 2010
More QR - Jul 24th, 2010
Misc barcode updates... - Jun 3rd, 2010
Barcode happiness - II - Apr 11th, 2010
Barcode happiness - I - Apr 11th, 2010
Misc update - Jan 30th, 2010
Barcode update - Dec 29th, 2009
No luck - Dec 15th, 2009
QR codes to hit the U.S.? - Dec 13th, 2009
Misc. update (BB/2D barcodes) - Aug 22nd, 2009
QR update - May 19th, 2009
BB & 2D barcodes - Apr 21st, 2009

Misc. QR

A number of miscellaneous articles/updates on QR codes:

1. QR codes come to bus stops in Washington, D.C., see 'Augmented Reality Coming to DC Bus Stops Today (Photo)' and 'QR codes on DC Circulator buses'
2. The same in Kolumbus, Norway since earlier this year, see 'Første store QR-implementasjon?'
3. In July QR codes showed up on... New York City garbage trucks, see 'NYC Garbage Trucks Take QR Codes Mainstream'
4. 'Mobile Action Code Usage Study Released', a study of U.S. monthly magazines "... revealed that mobile action code usage is adding to consumer engagement in both editorial and advertising content. Mobile video, sweepstakes, and micro sites are the dominant means for reader engagement via “mobile action codes,” such as 2D bar codes, QR codes and Microsoft Tag..." It also found that over half of the codes led to video content (followed by micro-sites and various sweepstakes), and that the leading code was the Microsoft Tag, with a share of approximately 82%.
5. A firm did surveys on QR code awareness and developed a nice infographic of their results...
6. A Houston realty company is adding Microsoft Tags to yard sale signs, see 'John Daugherty, Realtors Adds Smartphone Technology to Houston Home Buying'
7. A Japanese company, SetJapan, does "designer" QR codes.
8. The DNA11 company does "DNA Ancestry Portraits" - send in a cheek swab, they determine your DNA haplotype, and upload your results to a customized web site. You get a "portrait" (actually the QR code of your customized resultsweb site) that when scanned takes you to your results...

Previous barcode-related blog entries:
BB QR Code Scanner Pro - Nov 18th, 2010
Random charts - Nov18th, 2010
More QR - Jul 24th, 2010
Misc barcode updates... - Jun 3rd, 2010
Barcode happiness - II - Apr 11th, 2010
Barcode happiness - I - Apr 11th, 2010
Misc update - Jan 30th, 2010
Barcode update - Dec 29th, 2009
No luck - Dec 15th, 2009
QR codes to hit the U.S.? - Dec 13th, 2009
Misc. update (BB/2D barcodes) - Aug 22nd, 2009
QR update - May 19th, 2009
BB & 2D barcodes - Apr 21st, 2009

Random charts

Source: Factoids that may interest only me Statistics on hotel closings over time.

Studies of Interest - IV

Provider of audit, finance, consulting, tax, and risk management services, Deloitte has produced 'Industry Compass 2.0' - a framework to look at the forces shaping healthcare. From their web site - this framework:

"... goes beyond traditional industry boundaries to help examine dynamic zones of impact and make sense of complex transformations across six drivers of change. Our Compass map provides a framework for discussing how potential trends and issues might interact over the coming decade and how your organization might respond to or even co-create the future... Industry Compass 2.0 is a visual guide designed to help you think about, plan for and navigate the future in an engaging and constructive way. It supports strategic analysis and planning around the puzzling grid of potential trends and issues confronting life sciences companies, health care providers, health plans and other stakeholders in the coming decade. The major elements of the Compass map – Drivers, Impact Zones, Trends, Signals, Hurdles, Landmarks and Artifacts – provide a framework for discussing how the elements might interact and how your organization might navigate the future ..."