I have to confess that I am not sure why this infographic fascinates me so much. Perhaps it’s that I have seen all of these companies rise and shift in the ebbing tides of technology and innovation. When I first saw it, I imagined better ways to express this information. But on further examina[...]
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June 15th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
Come scrivere un blog post | infographic | TP-blog
A few of you are old enough to remember when a fat person was an oddity. Am I wrong? It’s what I remember from my childhood. I also remember that we didn’t have fast food and didn’t by loads of chips and other corn syrup infested goodies. So here’s an infographic from online [...]
June 14th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
Snake Oil version 2
A few weeks ago I featured another interactive visualizer called Snake Oil. It enables you to compare different medications, both pharmaceutical and natural based on research. This is an updated version of the tool. According the the blog entry: We’ve revised the data from top to bottom. That incl[...]
June 2nd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
Weekly Retail Premium Motor Gasoline Prices
Here is one of the most interesting data sets I’ve seen in some time. From the U.S. Department of Energy, this Excel file lists the price of premium fuel for six European countries and the U.S. for every week going back to January 1996. When visualized, the growing price is gasoline is ill[...]
May 31st, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
Historical Browser Statistics
I’m not sure exactly who would be interested in learning about the history of the browser wars, but what interested me about this visualization was it’s layout and the interactive aspects of the tool. This is, essentially, an example of the Axiis data visualization framework, an open sou[...]
May 27th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
The Demographics of Social Media
I’ve complained a few times about the preponderance of infographics about social media. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t have fun with them. Yesterday I shared some statistics from All Facebook. Here is an infographic from Advertizing Age that fairly effectively illus[...]
May 25th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
Social media & digital in Asia… (asiancorrespondent.com)
Edelman produced this graphic that illustrates the degree to which countries in Asia and Oceania are using the Internet, especially for social media. The Asian Correspondent blog post that brought this graphic to my attention questions the data source, The data used to compile the statistics is take[...]
May 24th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
Global Distribution of Wikipedia Edits
I learned about this one from Tech Blog, the WikiMedia Foundation blog. Wikimedia is the group behind Wikipedia and this interesting visualizatioin shows a map of the world and for a given day and a given time, it traces through where edits were made from second by second. It is fast motioned by[...]
May 13th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Plotted | Co.Design
I’m not a big J.R.R. Tolkien fan, but this infographic, by design student J.T. Fredsma, intrigued me. According Fridsma… A visualization of the journey of the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy—directed by Peter Jackson and adapted from the original books by J.R.R. Tol[...]
May 12th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
Countries with the Most New Facebook Users
Facebook continues to grow, though not so much in the U.S. From a May 6 Inside Facebook blog post.. Having reached around half the total populations in Europe and North America, Facebook had slower growth in these regions. The US only grew by a couple hundred thousand users, many fewer than the mill[...]