via Well, I suppose this is about as good a predictor as you could conjure. I dig it for the topicality and symmetry, but the quality that most defines this chart, I’d say, isapophenia, the tendency to see meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
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The Times breaks down Mariano Rivera’s cutter. [Infographic of the Week]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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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 [...]
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