In yesterday’s IGAD, I lamented that many (if not most) infographics these days are political in nature. So it may surprise you that today’s subject was published by The White House. I post it here as a way of wondering how much infographics may become a big part of campaign 2012. [...]
Archive for May, 2011
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[...]
May 10th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet
Much has been said about the raid in Pakistan and Bin-Laden’s death, but perhaps even more about how news of the event spread around the global, independent of traditional news services. Gilad & Devin, of Social Flow, share a number of graphics that illustrate how the news spread from the [...]
May 6th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Miscellaneous
Mac People vs PC People
This one’s got to be fun. Nothing like the old Mac vs PC game. My first com put er was a mac and all I ever used it for was to play DinoPark Tycoon. Ever since then I’ve always been a PCper son until col lege. When I grad u at ed I didn’t want […][...]