The first weekend day after New Year’s Day where it’s 60 degrees and sunny.

So does deregulation. No correlation of course....

What in the world happened in the 80's? (I'm 20, cut me some slack)

Okay but can we agree that it's acceptable to leave halloween decorations up for more than a month?

I think that by december the halloween decorations should come down by any time from mid september to late november is in season and halloween decorations can in many cases doubie as thanksgiving ones.

Quietly starting to hide money under the matress

When the snow melts and you can use a ladder to get them down.

>There’s nothing to label on the y-axis.

Except for exactly what you just described. Just because there is no dimension does not mean you do not label it. "N" is dimensionless in the y-axis of a histogram, but it is always labeled as "Number of X binned by Y".

Oh look, that's exactly the same kind of chart as OP's!

Correct. If you take it down earlier, the wise men just get lost because there's no shining star to follow.

Laff, the inch of ice over the decorations and power cables didn’t melt for a month here. The last of the ice melted less than a week ago.

Here in Denver it’s traditional to take them down the weekend of the stock show, which is usually a week into the new year.

My original title was “Good Teams Getting Worse in …” but I’m not sure if that’s the conclusion, or like you mentions the bad teams are getting better.

I’d wager that it’s a combo of both. As the bad teams get slightly better they get better recruits(therefore taking them from the better teams), more money, more fan support, etc.

St. Patrick’s Day is a “winter holiday.”

Exactly what I came to say.

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I like to have everything back to normal during the first week of January.

Would an increase in upsets, and difference in seeds in upsets, indicate increased parity among teams? If the worst is more likely to beat the best, they'd have to be closer in skills(/resources/etc), right?

Because winter sucks monkey balls, except for Christmas.

Why though? What's the rush?

"Winter holiday?!" Another salvo in the War on christmas! Derpyderp!

/s

The first sentence mentions fraud and incompetence.

But what does it SOUND like?

A shame it didn’t ask respondents to state when they thought the last day of Christmas actually was.

January 6th. End of discussion.

This is just a bar chart. Regardless of the subject matter, it is not beautiful data.

The white dots are also bank failures right? They contradict your claim that a bank failure has only occurred during times of systemic breakdown.

In case anyone is taking this seriously, this is a 1-dimensional visualization, so there isn’t a y-axis unit. The dataset is “bank failures”, and each data point has 1 quantity associated with it: the year. You put a dot for each data point, and then you dodge/jitter them up and down so you can see how many there are without them overlapping. It’s kind of like a discretized violin plot, I generally hear this called a “beeswarm” plot. There’s nothing to label on the y-axis.