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25 Aug 2011

Fairly stupid chart, but I love the design idea and implementation.

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HBO Programming Venn

In: Culture Humor

24 Aug 2011

Yeah, that’s pretty much it.

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How We Spend our Time

In: Culture Source: WSJ

17 Aug 2011

Results from the 2010 American Time Use Survey. These look odd to me – and there are two possible reasons for this:
#1: Everyone lies on surveys (ie – they know they SHOULD be getting 8 hours of sleep, so that’s what they report).
#2: I do not have the lifestyle of an average American.

(via)

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Paying Off Credit Card Debt

In: Culture Finance

15 Aug 2011

Catherine Mulbrandon visualizes how long it takes to pay off a new computer making the minimum payment versus $100/month.

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Crayon Rainbow

In: Culture Graphic Design (general)

15 Aug 2011

Stephen von Worley re-designed Velociraptor’s Crayola Crayon color chart into a rainbow:

The radials make it much easier to see the most recent colors than in the original version:

He also tried several other shapes (below), and an interactive version. (via)

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Federal Crimes

In: Culture Interactive Source: WSJ

1 Aug 2011

Interactive graph of federal crimes. I wish it had better dynamic filtering so you could look closer at some of the more interesting categories.

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Days of the Week

In: Culture Innovative

27 Jul 2011

Another beauty from xkcd. “Polar graph of what stuff happen on which days, based on number of google results… The relative frequency of <day> in <phrase> is shown by the distance from the center.”

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Bytes vs Bricks (1999-2010)

In: Culture

25 Jul 2011

Nicolas Rapp is back creating graphics after his 2-year vacation. Lucky us, as Nicolas produces some quality stuff. Below is a graphic showing the demise of brick & mortar information delivery vs the internet.

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The Seven Chakras

In: Culture Humor Sports

25 Jul 2011

I withhold the snarky pen and simply share this for those who might be interested. (Thanks to Katie Desmond for the link!)

Ok, can’t resist. Below are the seven chakras of R. Crumb:

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State of Education

In: Culture

22 Jul 2011

The state of education in the USA is a disgrace. Particularly appalling was this statistic:

In Singapore, South Korea, and Finland, 100% of teachers come from the top 1/3rd of their college classes. In the United States, nearly 50% come from the bottom 1/3rd.

Sigh.

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Belief in Evolution vs GDP

In: Culture Science

15 Jul 2011

USA is an outlier. Hahaha! USA! USA! USA!

Why is it so hard to believe we’re just a bunch of monkeys?

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College Grade Inflation (1960-2008)

In: Culture Employment History Source: NYT

15 Jul 2011

There’s a new study on the history of collegiate grade inflation. Fascinating stuff – particularly the difference in giving As in private vs public schools. Thanks to David Cramer for passing on the link!

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Future According to Sci-Fi Films

In: Culture

13 Jul 2011

There’s not much point to this large timeline of science fiction movies and shows, but it’s pretty damn entertaining, nonetheless – particularly the plot summaries.

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Sunscreen

In: Culture Science

13 Jul 2011

David McCandless and his team over at Information is Beautiful did a ton of research into sunscreen and threw it all into one massive infographic. It’s rather overwhelming and I’m not sure it turned out that great – and it’s kind of blurry for some reason (the excerpt over at the Guardian looks fine).

Topically speaking, I can’t help but agree with Lewis Black that it’s odd that we’ve all assimilated the idea that smearing chemicals on our skin is the healthy thing to do. Being in the sun isn’t unhealthy – not going in the sun until July and then burning to a crisp is what’s unhealthy.

Thanks to Caryn Sykes for sending in the link!