An impressive and amazing accounting and analysis of MLB’s most dominant closer. Even if you don’t watch or care much about baseball, the incredible graphic depiction of Rivera’s signature ‘cutter’ pitch is fascinating. How do they do it, how do they know the velocity, trajectory, and type of each and every pitch he threw last [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Infographic of the Week: The Evolving Estimates Of BP’s Oil Leak
via tpm Simple but effective visualization of the original lie told by BP and the feds about how much oil was leaking vs. the reality as it has proven itself. In a sane world, the 60X error between the shit BP was shoveling on 5/24 and the current estimate of 60,000 barrels/day would be enough [...]
China is investing $100 billion in high-speed rail this year. How much is the US spending?
via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com In 2010, the US will spend over $660 billion on military operations. Meanwhile, it took a once-in-a-lifetime depression and stimulus bill to get the US to pony up a mere $8 billion for high speed rail. Mind you, that money is not even going to be spent in one year. In fact [...]
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Bonus Infographic of the Week: Locals vs. Tourists — San Francisco
via kottke Taken from Locals and Tourists, a set of maps showing where people take photos in various cities around the world. Blue indicates locals, red is for the tourists. The map is beautiful in itself. I love that SOMA and the Mission appear to have such rabid interest from our fellow City folk. And [...]
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Infographic of the Week: If San Francisco Crime was Elevation
via dougmccune.com Some very original work here. Although it is not totally precise and a little hard to grok from some angles, the concept is clever and, I think, does what we all want quality infographics to do: tell a story without resorting to lots of text or simple charts.
On the Street: 65 VW Notchback
They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to. When I was a kid, the family for a brief time owned a 1971 VW Squareback, essentially a 2-door wagon version of this exact car. I remember liking it, despite its semi-jalopy status (if I recall correctly, the paint was, uh, less than perfect). It [...]
Apple higlights Vimeo, not YouTube in new iPad ads
Apple last week released a second wave of iPad bus stop ads, changing the imagery from books and photo browsing to more interesting tasks like web browsing (facebook) and video watching. It’s telling that they chose to highlight Vimeo, rather than YouTube, in these ads. Vimeo, while excellent, has nowhere near the currency or resonance [...]