Here I’m going to share a few of the best visualisations from McCandless’s talk, which you can also find at Information is Beautiful.
To answer your question, yes this is just an excuse to show-off some beautiful examples of data-geekery.
Click the images for larger or interactive versions if applicable.
Mountains out of molehills
A timeline of global scare stories. Guess what the big pink one from 2009 indicates?
Peak break-up times
This is based on data from Facebook status updates. Notice the dip on Christmas day. Nobody is that cruel.
Wikipedia’s lamest edit wars
17,608 edits on whether it’s The Beatles or just the Beatles. This sample is just from 2001, click below for more years of pedantry.
Hierarchy of digital distractions
Forgetting which app you wanted to open is the new walking into a room and forgetting what you came in for.
World’s biggest data breaches
This incredibly detailed interactive bubble chart (not sure that’s the right phrase) is definitely not for the paranoid, although the cute way the circles undulate is a nice distraction. A fitting metaphor for the internet as a whole.
Influ-Venn-Za
Who can catch which flu? As well as swine flu and bird flu humans can also catch seal flu. We’re relatively safe from bat flu though.
A quick side-note from our resident Venn diagram naysayer…
@Christophe_Rock@infobeautiful & oddly not actually a venn. inf-euler-enza not quite as catchy. #fom14
Speaking of Twitter…
The truth about Twitter
Apparently four out of 100 tweets essentially just say ‘grrr!’
Who’s suing whom in the Telecoms industry?
Just in case you want to get in on the action yourself. Although you may need a spare billion dollars or two.
How much do music artists earn online?
Was Taylor Swift right to take her music off Spotify? Here’s a helpful visualisation that breaks down artist and label revenue from every platform or distribution channel. Click on the image for a much longer version.
Horoscoped
Scraping 22,000 horoscopes generated this visualisation of the most common words used…
Out of this, the Information is Beautiful team put together this ultimate horoscope which will be the only one you’ll ever need from now on.
Beautiful.
Authors: The Pixel Works