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Interactive: How Do Americans Differ by Age? It’s long been said that millennials have the power to disrupt and reshape entire industries.

Interactive: How Do Americans Differ by Age?

Most recently, this effect has been seen in the retail landscape, where millennial spending habits are setting the tone for the market’s future. Not only does the millennial generation demand the convenience of making instant purchases—but they can now rent almost anything they want, anytime, and anywhere. Visualizing the Growth of the Rental Economy Today’s infographic from Adweek takes a deeper look at the consumer goods rental economy, and the potential long-term impact of this shift in buyer behavior. Although the current market for rentals is still in its early stages, the sheer momentum that the industry has gained in the last year is enough to threaten even the largest retailers—forcing them to reconsider their own business models. The data for the visualization above comes from market research company Lab 42.

The Renting Revolution Renting goods is predominantly done on an as-needed basis. Find Music From TV and Movies.

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Socialization. World Life Expectancy. Parable of the Polygons - a playable post on the shape of society. This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world.

Parable of the Polygons - a playable post on the shape of society

These little cuties are 50% Triangles, 50% Squares, and 100% slightly shapist. But only slightly! In fact, every polygon prefers being in a diverse crowd: You can only move them if they're unhappy with their immediate neighborhood. Once they're OK where they are, you can't move them until they're unhappy with their neighbors again. “I wanna move if less than 1/3 of my neighbors are like me.” Harmless, right? Drag & drop unhappy polygons until nobody is unhappy: (just move them to random empty spots. don't think too much about it.) And... our shape society becomes super segregated. Sometimes a neighborhood just becomes square, and it's not their fault if no triangles wanna stick around. In this next bit, unhappy shapes automatically move to random empty spots. Run this simulation a few times. what happens? It's Nicky Case! 2018 School & District Rankings - Niche.

Lifecourse Associates: Generations. Census Reporter: Making Census Data Easy to Use. Uniform Crime Reporting. The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation.

Uniform Crime Reporting

The program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet the need for reliable uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, four annual publications, Crime in the United States, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics are produced from data received from over 18,000 city, university/college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily participating in the program.

The crime data are submitted either through a state UCR Program or directly to the FBI’s UCR Program. Welcome to Alcatraz. Welcome to AlcatrazHistory.com!

Welcome to Alcatraz

Alcatraz History was designed to help introduce you to the rich history of Alcatraz during the penitentiary years and many of the inmates who called "the Rock" home. From the mid 1930's until the mid 1960's, Alcatraz was America 's premier maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation's most incorrigible inmates.

Today, Alcatraz is a place of contradictions, with a grim past and an enduring future as one of San Francisco 's most prominent landmarks and tourist attractions. AlcatrazHistory.com explores this history through brief narratives and photos, and serves as an excellent reference for researchers seeking a basic collection of information. If you find that your interest and research needs go beyond the basic, we offer an exceptional reference book for $26.99. Thank you for taking time to visit, and we hope you enjoy learning about the rich history of Alcatraz and its former residents. Robert F. 10 Infamous Female Serial Killers. Crime Map Beta. Gun Violence Archive. Gangrule – The History of the Mafia.

Broadcastify - Live Police, Fire, EMS, Aircraft, and Rail Audio Feeds. Homicides in the City of Pittsburgh 2010-June 2016. The SocioWeb: A Guide to Sociology and Sociological Research. 29 Satirical Illustrations That Will Make You Question The World Around You. Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski has worked in satirical illustration since 2004, specializing in thought-provoking images that make his audience question their everyday lives.

29 Satirical Illustrations That Will Make You Question The World Around You

His subjects deal with everything from social media to politics to poverty, and while most of them can be interpreted in more than one way, it's clear that they all have at least one very distinct message behind them. Many of these made me uncomfortable... but in a good way. Even if you don't agree with the messages behind some of these illustrations, it's impossible not to appreciate the creativity involved in them. Maybe we really do need to start paying more attention to the things we accept as part of our daily reality. Check out Pawel's website here! H/T: imgur.com. Home - Indicators Database. Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey. Public Data Explorer.