via emergentfutures:
The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart
Is it Dystopia? Use this chart to decide if the scenario is truly an anti-utopia or just personally problematic
h/t josephfm:
Love this! “Dystopia” is a narrower term than “Crapsack World”.
Grammys 2012 buzz: Song of the Year
courtesy of NMincite, who have data about nominees in more categories
Charting the rise of personal computers, from Apple II through the iPad
The 20 most-played Christmas songs (2000-2009 airplay) by Decade of Popular Release.
Numbers don’t lie, but how they’re framed can change our interpretation of them.
No matter what political ideology you are or what you believe, beware of how easily charts can be manipulated!
Always good to remember.
How the Pie Chart was invented, via @ilovecharts:
“The pie chart first appeared in 1801 in a publication entitled The Statistical Breviary by William Playfair. In this publication, Playfair used a variety of graphs to present geographical areas, populations, and revenues of European states. We have Playfair to thank for many of the popular graphs that we use today, including the bar graph. Although he didn’t invent the line graph, his innovative work popularized it as a means to display quantitative values across time…
The term “pie chart” was not coined until years later and it is not the only food metaphor that has been used to describe it. The French referred to it as using the name of their soft round cheese—camembert.”
(“Save the Pies for Dessert,” by Stephen Few. From The Visual Business Intellegence Newsletter, August 2007)
(via the New Shelton wet/dry, idroolinmysleep, laphamsquarterly and @brainpicker)
How to choose the best airplane seat
via Kurt White
