Monday, February 27, 2012

Many Eyes

This Pie chart shows the racial make up of the US population during the 2000 census. The Chart shows that White was and still is the largest section of the population. White makes up 84.4% of the population , while all the other ethnicities and races combine to almost 16% of the population. There has been a big shift in the make up of the population since the 2000 census. This visualization shows China's population and its births per year. Its population has been increasing since at a steady pace from 1995 to 2009. During that timespan China has added 100,000,000 million people to its population while also enacting its One Child policy. Its growth is expected to slow down as the country will have to deal with the consequnces of the one child policy. The female population compared to the male population is very heavily skewed towards males as parents chose to only raise males in order to pass on family inheritances to them instead of females. This graph shows the population of the United States during its first ever census. This census also included the number of slaves owned by Southern states. Virginia was the largest state in terms of population, if you combine Georgia, Vermont, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Maryland then you would have the population of Virginia

Energy Production and Electric Power Consumption

This motion chart shows the energy production of the United States and China as well as the electric power consumption by the two nations since 1960. One can see as from before the United States is the leader in energy production by a wide margin during the 60's with China not even present. The chart will reaffirm the incredible leap that China generated by focusing its manpower into manufacturing. Looking at the chart in motion it is visible that China's electric power consumption in 1993 matched the United States electric power consumption in 1960. It took China 30 years to get to that level of consumption and energy production. From 1996 to 1999 the energy production of China seemed to be stalling and reaching its peak. Then in the new millennium China's energy production skyrocketed over the next decade to unbelievable levels in a short amount of time. While China has been growing in terms of production and consumption, the United States stalled on production but steadily increased its electric power consumption. Consumption by US consumers has thus been supported through importation. Production capacity has been at the about the same levels since 1984. Where all the extra electric power comes from is a mystery to me still

US vs China: Oil Production and GDP per capita

This motion chart is comparing the energy production (including crude oil, natural gas, and oil from non-conventional sources) and the Per Capita growth for the most of the world going as far back as 1960. The chart shows the early days of US energy dominance , China's growing energy consumption and the US fall from the number one spot. It also shows how the GDP per capita has grown through the years.

The first thing that you notice is how in 1960 the United States is the leading energy produce. The United States also had the best GDP per capita narrowly beating Sweden. Throughout the 60's energy production was rising sharply. You will notice that China does not appear until 1971 as a energy producer of any noticeable size. This was in part to the country rebuilding during the 50's and 60' from WW2 as well as its new  Communist government trying to organize the country.

During the 70's the US was in a enrgy crisis because of the oil embargo the OAPEC (Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries) placed on the country for supplying weapons to the Israeli military. This created  a stall and reduction in oil production and GDP was stagnant for most of the decade. The whole time China's oil production has grown at a trmendously high pace while its GDP per capita was only slightly increasing. In 2007 China managed to outproduce the US but its GDP per capita is 17 times smaller than that of the US




Movie Review

Ip Man

Ip Man is a overly dramatized biograpiical movie about Yip “ Ip” Man. He is the first master of Wing Chun fighting style. The movie follows Ip Man from his days just before Japan invaded China in the 1930’s and his struggle to provide for his family. The movie also is about rising up to oppression and equality between nations and races.The movie is also packed with greatly executed martial arts sequences by Donnie Yen as Master Ip

Reasons I like the movie
1.Fast paced execution of Wing Chun kung fu
2.It’s based on the life of the master and mentor of the great Bruce Lee
3.It has a great message about equality and pride, even though it might come across as pro-Chinese to some people

IMDB Information: Ip Man