Using data from MarineTraffic (which is definitely worth a click through), the New York Times has created this terrific animation showing the flow of oil tankers from the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world from May 15 to June 15, 2019.
Here's a screenshot:
About 20% of the world's supply of oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, a tiny passage located between Iran (north) and the UAE (south). See above.
The article also has a number of other charts that speak to changing supply and demand patterns. Note the US, China, and Iran.
Here are the top oil producers (total petroleum liquids) and the top crude oil exporters in 2018 (both are measured in millions of barrels a day):
And here are the top oil consumers ranked by 2016 data (total consumption of petroleum and other liquids):
Images/Charts: New York Times
This recent NY Times article about crowd estimates for Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest is a good follow-up to my post about the number of people who, allegedly, showed up to last month's NBA Championship parade here in Toronto.
For years, Hong Kong has been seeing divergent estimates for its annual protest. Organizers typically overstate. And the police typically understate. This year, organizers claimed 550,000 people in attendance, whereas the police claimed only 190,000.
The difference this year is that a local tech company has started using AI software (loaded up onto iPads) to help supplement the standard practice manual counts. This year they concluded -- perhaps more definitively -- that 265,000 people protested in the streets of Hong Kong.
Image: NY Times
We are in West Virginia now, where the only kind of housing that we have come across is -- not surprisingly -- low-density, detached, and single-family. Indeed, approximately 75% of the residential land across the entire US is estimated to be zoned for detached single-family homes. Using data from UrbanFootprint, the NY Times recently published a series of city maps outlining the percentage of land dedicated exclusively to this housing type.
In some cases, such as on residential corner lots in Portland, duplexes are allowed. But generally speaking, the pink corresponds to detached single-family housing. About 15% of residential land in New York City is zoned for this, compared to about 94% of the land in San Jose. Interestingly enough, none of the residential land in Manhattan is zoned to accommodate detached single-family housing.