Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

This Big House

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Decades ago, houses were much smaller than they are today. Centuries ago, they were smaller still. You can see this relationship between size and age reflected both in the various states (Utah homes are, on average, much newer than those in New York state) and countries (U.S. homes are newer than those in England). Check out the wild spread in average house sizes:

NEW: Linked Charts!

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We are pleased to announce the completion of a feature in SlopeCharts that people have been requesting for years: the ability to link all the instances of the chart so that when you enter a symbol in one, it gets populated to all of them. It doesn’t matter if they’re on different screens, different machines, or even different countries, any instance of SlopeCharts for your account will get the symbol “pushed” into it. A typical use case would be having different amounts of time presented on various charts.

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