Tuesday, August 24, 2010

information is beautiful

This guy David McCandless has a serieus data fetish. Some of the pictures he pulls out of the stats are nice aswell.
My favorites are the time line of scare stories:
And the wiki lame edit war is also funny:
He also had some nice background stats in google docs
Here is his TED-Talk

6 comments:

  1. somehow editing the pictures so they get readable gives a instand error. I noobed it up :(

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  2. Good TED talk, beautiful data :)

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  3. Nice. I like the data visualisations. The guy uses too many gay metaphors and I don't really trust his data gathering methods though.

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  4. I had a few examples of why I think he is not very critical/scientific during data gathering, but I forgot.

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  5. the Guardian's datablog is a little less visual but also worth a visit.

    I like the colours he's using in his visualisation.

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