10.21.2010

Real Madrid managers facts

Real Madrid, one of the most succesful soccer clubs in the world,  have hired ten managers in the last 10 years. 
Including Vicente Del Bosque, manager of the team when Florentino Pérez became president, Real Madrid have had 11 managers in the last ten years:

Starting from 01...

Vicente Del Bosque (SPA)
... - june 2003

Carlos Queiroz (POR)
july 2003-june 2004

José Antonio Camacho (SPA)
jully 2004-august 2004

Mariano García Remón (SPA)
august 2004-december 2004

Wanderley Luxemburgo (BRA)
december 2004-december 2005

Juan Ramón López Caro (SPA)
december 2005-june 2006

Fabio Capello (ITA)
july 2006-june 2007

Bernd Schuster (ALE)
july 2007-february 2009

Juande Ramos (SPA)
february 2009-june 2009

Manuel Pellegrini (CHL)
july 2009-june 2010


José Mourinho (POR)
july 2010-...


Some details

- Half of the managers were spanish, but none of them from Del Bosque stayed in the club for a complete season
- None of the spanish managers were succesful in winning any trophy
- From January 1st 2001, when we start the counting of 10 years, Vicente Del Bosque won two spanish leagues, one Champions League, one Spanish Supercup, one European Supercup and one Intercontinental Cup. After him, all the rest together has just won two leagues (Capello and Schuster) and two spanish supercups (Queiroz and Schuster).


10.20.2010

Costs of firing an employee in Europe compared to social expenditure

How much do you have to pay if you fire one of your employees?Order from highest social expenditure

Denmark
Cost of firing:  1-6 months of salary
Social expenditure: 11,982.5 €/hab. 
Netherland
You have to reach a deal on each case
9,872.1 €/hab. 


Belgium
Six months of salary
9,284.2 €/hab. 

France
Last six months of salary
9,056.3 €/hab. 

United Kingdom
98 days of salary
8,471.5 €/hab.

Ireland
98 days of salary
8,247.6 €/hab. 

Germany
33 days of salary per year worked
8,186.2 €/hab. 

Italy
15 months of salary
6,944.9 €/hab. 

Spain
45 days of salary per year worked, with a limit of 42 months
4,929.5 €/hab. 

Portugal
45 days of salary per year worked, with a limit of 42 months
3,812.3.5 €/hab. 

10.19.2010

War on Iraq facts


Photo by the US Army
Data until 31st august 2010, when Obama declares the troops withdrawal from Iraq.

750 billion $
Meny spent by the USA in this war.

375,000 iraqi soldiers
Were under Saddam's command before the start of the war.

300,000 coalition soldiers
Participated at the beginning of the invasion.

16,964 dead people in Iraq
From the start of the war (and caused by it)
9,781 were civilian iraqis
4,416 where US soldiers
4,374 where soldiers of the coalition
1,982 where iraqi soldiers (counting from 2003)
1,402 where US soldiers dead in Baghdad

30 countries
Participated in the original coalition for the invasion

22 days
Since the start of the war to the 'Mission accomplished' pronounced by George W. Bush

7,5 years
Have spent the US troops in Iraq until the announce of the withdrawal

7,3 people die in Iraq
Daily from the start of the war

All the data in the infographic (spanish): Las cifras de la guerra de Irak
Sources: iCasualties, Iraq Body Count, National Priorities

10.17.2010

Spanish speakers facts

Cuba is the country with the highest percentage of spanish speakers, with a 88.12% of the population, according to Ethnologue. El Salvador and Puerto Rico (both with a 87.9%) took the second and third spots.
Spain, the country where this leanguage was born, is the 16th in the classification, with just a 69.83%.
United States has a 7.57% of spanish speakers.

10.16.2010

2010 venezuelan elections facts

Photo by Mike González

Chávez got the 48.13% of the votes (5,423,324), and this turned into the 59.4% of the delegates(98).
The opposition got the 47.22% of the votes (5,320,364), and this turned into the 39.4% of the delegates (65).

Translated: Chavez, winning the voting by just a 0.98% got a 20% more delegates.

Chávez needed 55,340 votes to get a delegate, meanwhile the MUD (opposition) needed 81,852.

The new electoral system approved by Chavez's goverment some years ago harmed the opposition in 19 out of the 24 states of Venezuela.

Complete set of data (infographic, in spanish):Diferencias entre voto popular y diputados en las elecciones parlamentarias 2010 de Venezuela

10.15.2010

NBA players birth places facts (2010/2011 season)

Photowork over a Adam Pienazek's photo

Last update, october 15th 2010


Los Angeles is the city with most players in the NBA (17), followed by Chicago (16) and New York (15).

Compton, California, is the city with the best ratio population per player: one NBA player for each 31,320 inhabitants.

San Jose is the largest city with no players in the NBA (964,695)

There are five states without players in the NBA.


US cities with most players (five or more)

1. Los Angeles - 17
2. Chicago - 16
3. New York -15
4. Dallas - 10
5. Washington DC - 8
6. Seattle - 7
6. Atlanta - 7
6. Phlidalphia - 7
9. Indianapolis -6
9. Houston - 6
11. Baltimore - 5
11. Baton Rouge - 5
11. Long Beach - 5
11. Memphis - 5

Ratio players/population (only cities with three players or more)

- Compton, CA (1 for each 31,320 people)
- Flint, MI (1 for each 41,647 people)
- Baton Rouge, LA (1 for each 45,910 people)
- Jackson, MS (1 for each 57,593 people)
- Washington DC (1 for each 74,957 people)
- Birmingham, AL (1 for each 76,600 people)
- Atlanta, GA (1 for each 77,271 people)
- New Orleans, LA (1 for each 84,161 people)
- Seattle, WA (1 for each 88,809 people)
- Buffalo, NY (1 for each 90,080 people)
- Long Beach, CA (1 for each 98,536 people)
- Oakland, CA (1 for each 102,297 people)
- Newark, NJ (1 for each 103,381 people)
- Baltimore, MD (1 for each 127,483 people)
- Dallas, TX (1 for each 129,594 people)
- Memphis, TN (1 for each 134,020 people)
- Indianapolis, IN (1 for each 134,597 people)
- Raleigh, NC (1 for each 135,263 people)
- Oklahoma City, OK (1 for each 140,083 people)
- Cleveland, OH (1 for each 143,789 people)
- Miami, FL (1 for each 148,995 people)
- Chicago, IL (1 for each 178,319 people)
- Las Vegas, NV (1 for each 189,213 people)
- Milwaukee, WI (1 for each 201,492 people)
- Boston, MA (1 for each 215,056 people)
- Philadelphia, PA (1 for each 221,128 people)
- Los Angeles, CA (1 for each 225,404 people)
- Detroit, MI (1 for each 227,730 people)
- San Antonio, TX (1 for each 3743,347 people)
- Houston, TX (1 for each 376,321 people)
- New York, NY (1 for each 559,458 people)

Cities with population >500,000 people and without NBA players

- San Jose - 964,695
- El Paso - 620,456
- Tucson - 543,910
- Albuquerque - 529,219

States without any NBA player

- North Dakota
- Maine
- Vermont
- Nebraska
- Hawaii


Complete set of data (infographic): NBA demographics