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Video Games (1975-2011)
21 Dec 2012Games by genre, and games by platform. Labeling the axis might have been useful – I assume it’s supposed to be percent of total, with the space at top “other”? I tried to find the original source for this, but had no luck.
100 Riffs (a Brief History of Rock and Roll)
18 Dec 2012A cool real time synced visualization of guitar riffs and their matching tabs notations. Apparently the Soundslice site let’s you annotate any youtube video in such a way. I love internet functionality mashups like this.
Infographic SEO Spammers
14 Dec 2012I receive dozens of infographics a day. Most of them (besides being terrible) are obviously designed to promote a particular company or non-profit. However, there are also a lot concerning topics that have nothing to do with their original site– and I figured they were just link-bait for SEO chasers. Well, Dan Tynan did a little more digging in an article over at ITWorld, and it’s quite interesting.
Startup Salaries and Equity Shares
25 Sep 2012Dynamic bubble chart showing compensation ranges for startups across different job types. I’m kinda afraid to ask what a “Sales Engineer” is.
Global Facebook Friendships
11 Sep 2012Ok, maybe I’m just in a bad mood because I’m back at work after a nice long vacation – but I think this visualization sucks. All it does is ordinally identify the top five linked countries for each country. There is no scale. What does the bubble size indicate? No matter what country you click on, the top five all grow to about the same size. Is the 4th relationship really almost as strong as the 2nd? Who knows? The methodology states “Rankings between countries are based on the number of Facebook friendships between countries and the total number of Facebook friendships within each country.” Ummm… how, exactly? Is it a ratio? Is the total number used as a weight? Thankfully they color coded it based on the continents – because everyone has trouble identifying those, right? Oh, and Seychelles will be happy to know it’s now in Asia. Totally useless.
Dynamic Online Pricing
In: Internet/tech
6 Sep 2012Online retailers adjust their prices throughout the day. (related WSJ article – requires subscription) Personally, I’ve always wondered whether retailers give different prices to customers who are signed in or not.
Here’s another example and a good free article/video:
Evolution of the Web
23 Jul 2012A beautifully executed timeline of the history of the web. But really, why does anyone care when different kinds of html were included in each browser? Does anyone actually find this kind of internet navel gazing to be interesting?
Political Leanings of Social Media
In: Internet/tech
20 Jul 2012I tend to avoid internet meta infographics, as it is a tad navel gazing for me, and I’m dubious of the metric used here (facebook likes as tracked by the “Trendsetter” platform. But heck, it’s Friday afternoon. Have at it.
Women on the Net
In: Internet/tech
23 May 2012I usually ignore internet-meta graphics – I just don’t find navel gazing particularly interesting. In addition I would question the reliability of self-reported gender for most of these sites.
Repetitive Tasks
In: Humor Internet/tech
10 May 2012Yep. This pretty much describes my career. Progress is the result of a lazy man finding an easier way of doing things.
Rise and Fall of Online Empires
23 Mar 2012I looked at this for several minutes before noticing that they never actually say what they’re measuring on the charts. <sigh> ALWAYS LABEL YOUR AXIS!!!
Graphic Decision Making
29 Feb 2012I thought this was a good example of how to use graphics to clearly differentiate a list of similar items – in this case making a choice between 25 different software apps.
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