The Rise of ‘In One Chart’ In One Chart
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Charting what happens the longer you watch March Madness
via digg:
The refs can hear you. You just have to believe.
When I was in college I realized the political and economic systems were vastly more complex and intertwined than most people realized, but that didn’t hinder my interest in changing it. Now that I’m firmly entrenched in the working world, I just don’t have time to work it out.
Which is kind of a shame, since I’m way more productive and disciplined than I was in college, just not towards the same ends…
![Tis the season…
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Merry Christmas, everyone.
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Because you are what you eat, this chart visualizes the food brands preferred by voters.
Can what you eat tell you something about how you vote? Possibly.
Interesting attempt to visualize a non-fiction book.
via ilovecharts:
Nate Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t is rife with charts and graphs, as you would expect from the man behind the FiveThirtyEight blog. So we decided to plot just how many graphs, charts, illustrations, and tables populate the text.
I rarely laugh about charts, but this Gawker analysis (and Subway’s “official” explanation) of the graph in their Advertisement made me LOL.
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The evolution of Batman characters put into timeline format.
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Seventy Years of Bat Evolution
via Olivia Davis
What Steve Jobs said you’d do with your iPad vs. how you actually use it…
The Avengers is already one of the biggest box office returns of all time!
The Avengers may have saved the world, but they also saved Disney after the disastrous flop of “John Carter.” The superhero movie now ranks third all-time in receipts, trailing only “Avatar” and “Titanic.”
As high as “The Avengers” is soaring on the home front, it’s doing even better overseas. Based on characters from Marvel Comics, the behemoth has garnered more than $800 million since it opened in late April to foreign markets, bringing its total box office haul to $1.36 billion.
“I’ve never seen a movie that has sprinted to these numbers so fast,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office division of Hollywood.com. “It doesn’t seem to be slowing down.”
Yeah but see, this is bullshit. The movie — which was great, by the way — “sprinted to these numbers so fast” because ticket prices are now insanely higher than they ever have been, especially when you take 3D and IMAX into account.
Look at the list above, there are two — TWO — movies pre-2000. And they were released in 1999 and 1997. Either movies have gotten better and/or more popular — or, much more likely, it has to do solely with the ticket prices.
This data comes from BoxOfficeMojo, which also happens to keep a chart that’s adjusted for inflation. Sadly, the numbers above are worldwide box office and BoxOfficeMojo only does the adjustment for domestic sales, but you still will get the picture.
Unadjusted, domestically, The Avengers is now the #3 movie of all time with $552 million — ahead of The Dark Knight and behind Titanic. But when adjusted for inflation, The Avengers is… #35. On that chart, it’s behind Love Story and just ahead of Spiderman.
That’s not to downplay The Avengers success — its run has been amazing. But come on, to say that now “ranks third all-time in receipts” is misleading. It ranks third in money made, yes, but it’s a sort of silly metric. Hollywood should count and publish tickets sold in absolute numbers.
Sadly, they never will because such numbers wouldn’t be nearly as impressive. In fact, they’d likely show a decline in movie-going throughout the past couple of decades. Instead, looking at these charts, you’d think everything is up, up, and away.
Great points. (bolding = mine)
