I present to you my own version of the Hockey Stick, made famous by Michael Mann. Can you guess what it represents?
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWiDFtYRUVcKvqDNecwv3YOYeDgre0ZKuvZ03pGhV_Q0G5VatTyza_ub0JHua9edE9B_ZW_cQ6QYauypj-JtsHCLYI1yyvv6E3dM48GzcRoU4MMEhjti9W3Y1luXPpCBwWkJOmjg/s320/hockey+stick.jpg)
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I'll admit that I have cheated here and hidden the data at the end of the series to "hide the decline".
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJzmVlbAaQw8DxL4ZUJlqLFyRJ_Bvm-GVn6VpxNy_7sdsPUOY6CfLx4FYreSe07rFl-nRNdrjKjzAdaYMThkVL3ce3BYHPf6zIkLo1KG8qtpVipoJFaefx_OkefYjM-pjniPtq1w/s320/full+graph.jpg)
In the interests of openeness, this is what I did:
- I took each grant, and calculated how many months it ran for
- I then divided the total grant by the number of months, giving an average "income" from that grant per month over the life of the grant
- I then summed up the total income per month from all the grants and plotted it, fiddling with the trendline until it produced a hockey stick. I had to use a 6 order polynomial to get a hockey stick - if you use anything less than that, a hockey stick fails to appear
- I then pulled a "trick" to eliminate the data after August 2004, as the budget went into a sad decline
3 comments:
Hah. Nice.
I think the first graph is a sketch of Nessie.
Cheers
That's hysterical.I mean ROFLMAO oops.
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