Category Archives: infographic

Bonus Infographic of the Week: Dropped calls effect Yaron’s mood

via yaronschoen.com A perfectly delightful and – for anybody who uses or speaks to others who use an iPhone – totally relatable exploration of the frustration of dropped phone calls, in glorious technicolor.

Animated infographic of the week: BP oil spill explained

Thank you Al-Jazeera! It is sad that in the 3,271 hours of cable and network news coverage of the spill, no American network is willing – or capable – to do the basic reporting and explanatory work to help make sense of complex events like this. I guess they’re too busy discussing whether the spill

Infographic of the Day: Tonsorial Trust

That means beard trust, people! So, here is the chart, from the LA Times of all places. [view full chart] Beautiful and all, but my beard style is not represented. Tonsorialists!! Anyhow, for those not already in the know, my stache/goatee shape looks like this: Really, it’s a hybrid: A Chin Tuft/Soul Patch combination +

Infographic of the Week: Visualization of location-logging mobile apps at SXSW

via MG @ TC This animated visualization of location check-ins over 6 days of the South X Southwest conference in Austin last week is lots of fun. It shows which location-aware apps are logging the most traffic (foursquare and Gowalla, by far), and is a pretty neat heat map for where and when people are

Infographic of the Year Nominee: Flickr Color Flow

via hint.fm Just stunning. Check the link for the full image, plus the story and meaning behind it. This type of info visualization is less about data, per se, and more about telling a story – in this case, the ‘relative proportion of different colors seen in photos’ on Flickr, over the course of the

Infographic of the Week: Earth’s Oldest Trees

view complete image here A beautiful chart, with some fascinating tree trivia that I’d never heard before. Pando, the oldest ‘tree’ is actually a colony of stems, which have been scientifically proven to all be part of the same ancient organism. The vast estimated range of its age is evidence of the uncertainty of its

Infographic of the Week: Monthly job losses, 2008-2010

The red bars are the accelerating rate of job loss during President Bush’s last year in office; the blue bars are the decelerating rate of job loss during President Obama’s first year of office.