Guess what the Graph Shows!

[Мастер]

Number of people shot for chewing gum on the MRT?

i) One doesn't get shot for that.
ii) Those would be rather eerily precise forecasts for the future years.

[MM_Dandy]

Number of days when 90% or more of departures and arrivals run on time.

[Мастер]

Number of days when 90% or more of departures and arrivals run on time.

So, those would be rather odd future projections for such a thing, don't you think?

[MM_Dandy]

Probably. I'd imagine stations and lines opening and closing along with population changes might keep it somewhat variable, though.

[Arneb]

Number of new railway stations opened in Singapore, by year?

[Мастер]

Number of new railway stations opened in Singapore, by year?

Winner!

Metro stations, I.e., the Sentosa monorail, the airport train, and the railroad to Malaysia/Thailand not included. When a new line opens at an existing station, that is counted as a new station (and with a few exceptions, it is physically distinct from the existing station).

[Lance]

Number of tropical cyclones that made land-fall in a Singapore by year?

I think that would be zero.

There are no tropical depressions/tropical storms/hurricanes/typhoons there?

I think there are.

Typhoons can hit Singapore from July to mid November, and can sometimes cause heavy damage, flooding and erosion. However, In general Typhoons prefer other routes, and are quite seldom in Singapore.

Maybe not many but certainly >0.

[Мастер]

There are no tropical depressions/tropical storms/hurricanes/typhoons there?

OK, I think I did not know the current definition of "cyclone" - I thought it was more or less synonymous with typhoon.

Storms, we get those all the time.

Maybe not many but certainly >0.

They're pretty rate.

In any event, if that had been what's in the graph, it would be a rather eerie pattern of future predictions, don't you think?

[Мастер]

OK, I found this site:

http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-sto ... y-20131022

which seems to use a much stricter definition of "cyclone". It also mentions that there has only been one in Singapore in living memory.

[Arneb]

So, here's the next graph: From my own field of work, and from my own neck of the woods.

[tubeswell]

something where children under 15 years are measured for something

[Arneb]

Yes, theeor numbers are represented by the blue line at the bottom. The inset reads Total - Adults - Children < 15

[Мастер]

So I'm thinking it's number of cases of some disease.

[Arneb]

True

[Lance]

In any event, if that had been what's in the graph, it would be a rather eerie pattern of future predictions, don't you think?

Well, yeah, then there's that.

I'm not sure I agree with the more strict definition of the term since it is pretty clearly defined already. The whole reason I chose it was because of how broad it was.

Tropical Cyclone Climatology

[Мастер]

Well, yeah, then there's that.

I'm not sure I agree with the more strict definition of the term since it is pretty clearly defined already. The whole reason I chose it was because of how broad it was.

Tropical Cyclone Climatology

It looks like it might be one of those words that has different scientific and "everyday" meanings. Like "theory" :)

It rains quite a lot here. We just don't get the storms with really powerful winds.

[Lance]

It looks like it might be one of those words that has different scientific and "everyday" meanings. Like "theory" :)

That makes sense.

[MM_Dandy]

Do the top two lines indicate thousands while the bottom line indicates hundreds, then?

[Мастер]

It seems there are two people are are neither adults nor children under the age of 15.

[Мастер]

I can't work out how two of the curves are supposed to add up to the other. None of the interpretations which occur to me seem to fit.

[Arneb]

The curves are mathematically derived from the numbers in a typical way. Where the numbers written beside the curves don't add up (light blue+red=dark blue), thats' rounding errors.

[Мастер]

The curves are mathematically derived from the numbers in a typical way. Where the numbers written beside the curves don't add up (light blue+red=dark blue), thats' rounding errors.

The top curve is not just the sum of the bottom two. So I thought, perhaps the curves are percentages, and we have to weight them when adding up, with the numbers in the legend being the size of the population. However, that doesn't seem to work.

[Lance]

Anything to do with birth rates?

[Arneb]

Anything to do with birth rates?

Nope. I would surely hope we don't have measureable birth rates in people under 15.

[Arneb]

Ok, clarification and correction.

1. You are right, the numbers beside the data points in the coloured lines do NOT add up, and on further thought, there is no reason why they should. However, that 4040+178 does not quite add up to 2220 can be ignored and reprresents uncertainties in the data collection.
2. The numbers in the box are "raw" numbers (of cases) from the last time point. These numbers were used to calculate the data point on the timeline for the 2012 time point.