MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME: ILLUSTRATED AS A USCB COUNTY-LEVEL CHOROPLETH CHART

If you live on the West coast, you've probably noticed that houses seem more expensive than they do in other areas of the country.

Recently I saw that the weather in my home state of Minnesota was colder than the average surface temperature on Mars (as measured by the curiosity rover).

The Holiday season is full of food, fun, and lots of turkeys. I'm referring to the dozy food, not the black Friday shoppers. This begs the question, where do all of these turkeys come from?

Recently I saw a NOAA vessel in Seattle. I have heard that tides have been getting larger recently. In fact, the largest tide in over 113 years happened last winter. Of course this brings up concerns related to the oft dismissed topic of climate change (previously known as global warming).

For those of you who may have never tried Matplot before, it is quickly becoming the standard visualization library for both R and Python.