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A thread for graphics displays that catch your eye, convey information well or beautifully, and/or are just worth sharing.
For example, a graph of how we spend our day, based on the results of a New York Times survey:
Click here for an interactive version that varies by sex, employment status, age, etc.
groundrules
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blammo wrote >>
2nd most deceiving thread title of 2010
I can't take all the credit....
groundrules wrote >>
seriously.
I thought we were going here for sure:
uurgh... teach me to post close to 5pm I guess.
Another, quite topical one -- interactive map of Haiti, showing in part why the earthquake was so devastating. Static version:
MikeReed
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For those interested in data and visualization I can recommend processing.org and nodebox.net as great visualization tools.
Caution: programming knowledge required. The Fuse Factory sometimes teaches these kinds of things in an introductory way.
paktinat
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not interactive, but a very interesting application of data mining is http://blog.okcupid.com/
Its worth a read.
Men think most women are average, and they really like trying to talk to the hot ones:
Women think most men are ugly, but they don't mind talking to them, and they are afraid of talking to the hot ones:
Bear
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Another interesting graphic I just whipped up using the Forbes website:
The image shows migration into (black lines) and out of (red lines) each county in the US in 2008. Click on a county and you can see where people came from and went to. I generated this one for Franklin County.
My first impression was that we gain people from the north and lose them to the other points of the compass. But then I took a closer look and realized that the black lines aren't as easy to notice as the red lines, and that we're actually gaining more from the east and west than I'd realized at first.
Interesting stuff, fun to play with.
berdawn
near that stretch of N. High Street in the Short North
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not much right now on graphing, but the occasionally fabulous number based post:
http://contexts.org/socimages/
if you search "x-axis" the first post that comes up (charting welfare numbers)is indicative of the neat stuff.
takeasiesta
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paktinat
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here is a neat visualization video about world life expectancy:
| Get the Video Widget |
TomOver
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The term 'data porn' calls to mind the tendency in some people, myself included, to get excited about information for its own sake, all the while being detached from the implications the information may have for the choices we make in our day to day lives. Perhaps 'data porn' involves intellectual vanity.
'Data porn' seems to have things in common with other terms recently coined from the root word 'pornography,' such as 'eco porn' and 'disaster porn.'
Though it's meaning has been in flux recently, 'eco-porn', as I understand it, involves having an aesthetic and scientific appreciation for the natural environment without having a sense of responsibility for taking care of it.
'Disaster porn' involves a sensationalist interest in other people's or perhaps even our own misfortune. Perhaps 'soft disaster porn' involves getting a sort of literary or cinematic catharsis from real world disasters without having any intention of helping out with the situation.
That's why I try to ask myself what I actually can do about a situation in question whenever I feel a news story tugging at my heart strings.
I try to organize my 'media consumption' according to my sense of social responsibility.
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Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?view=raceethnicity&lat=40.7800&lng=-73.9&l=10
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