Maps. All the maps.

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Atlanta air traffic while a thunderstorm passes:

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top three for WA:

3rd / Third, 255
1st / First, 248
2nd / Second, 244

Whatever makes 3rd the most popular is probably just some minor artifact in the methodology given how close the top three are. Perhaps 3rd Streets are more likely than 2nd Streets to be split into a North 3rd Street and a South 3rd Street, or something.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/06/these-are-the-most-popular-street-names-in-every-state/
(methodology is at the end)

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I wish they'd be more specific than "other and unspecified malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue" ...

that is so much more specific than "abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified"

is it patients with rare diseases and disorders that they try to treat at the CDC, I guess?

What does "most distinctive causes of death" even mean?

the most disproportionately common in that state compared to how common it is in all other states

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click to embiggen. slightly outdated.

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