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[...]
Archive for May, 2011
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 20th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Miscellaneous
Are We Overwhelmed By Too Many… (huffingtonpost.com)
If you do not know what a “Social Ask” is, ask your students to talk about it. Maybe ask them how many “likes” they have clicked in the past week and make an infographic. When it comes to building a social media presence, there’s one strategy that seems to be universal[...]
May 19th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Sources
Q1 Online Retail Spending Up 12 Percent To $38 Billion (statistics)
Here’s some encouraging data for the economic that might make some tasty infographic fodder. ComScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its Q1 2011 U.S. retail e-commerce sales estimates, which showed that online retail spending reached $38.0 billion[...]
May 18th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in STEM
The End Is Nigh — For Computers, at Least
This is a fascinating infographic that portrays the history of computer from 1958 to some point in the not too distant future. That’s right, the future history of computers based on the continuation of Moores Law and various technologies (bio) that will likely enable to continuation of “[...]