graphspergers - the graphs and quantitative visualization thread

really cool stuff

want one for my city!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624812674967/map/

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/graphcelsiior.png

http://i.imgur.com/OBeYU.jpg

super deceptive

oh for sure, just thought it looked neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOOmqHzkkOo

so i just watched that^ and its decidedly entry level but still p amusing, the microsoft blogger emotion tracking bro at the end is perfectly creepy, and hans rosling is a wonderful loon w/many dad jokes abt how stats prove scientists from sweden are good at dancing, feel like if all accomplished people had his level of enthusiasm and humility the world would be a better place

^^^ will watch

yah it's not bad but was hoping for a lot more sexy interactive graphspergering; can always go to http://www.gapminder.org/world/ of course.

Andrew Gelman examines the difference between useful statistical graphics and the loathesome "information visualization" movement as gently as possible, without tearing it completely apart like you know he would if he weren't obviously such a nice guy.

www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/presentations/vistalk4.pdf

Easily my favorite statistics blog (oh god, I read enough stats blogs to have a favorite)

http://assets.flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/largest_photo_libraries-copy.jpg

so depressing

Instagram's share is the most surprising thing to me on there

it makes me sad because photography is the medium that benefits most from aggressive editing - less is more. the greatest photographers only exhibited .001%-.01% of what they shot, if that

*stews*

for sure

it makes me sad because photography is the medium that benefits most from aggressive editing - less is more. the greatest photographers only exhibited .001%-.01% of what they shot, if that

*stews*

true. tho it's hardly surprising then that FB rules uber alles

yeah and photography serves many purposes - facebook is the world's family photo album, for all intents and purposes

pity the sociologist who does their dissertation on sig ep parties circa 2011-2015 and has to go through a google of photos

man sig ep was the ~worst~

just burned you with creative deleting on facebook dayo

i am the world's worst facebook friend

ahahaaha

thanks to ilxor max for pointing this out it's really amazing

http://exp.lore.com/post/28848285377/a-tragedy-of-priorities-the-most-appalling

http://columbiadatascience.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/photo-9.jpg

???

Those three circles shouldn't overlap at all?

Or at most the bottom circle should be inside the right circle.

i never realized there was such an overlap between people who work out and people who don't!

maybe that includes people who think they're working out, but it's controversial among people that really do work out. e.g., people who walk to work and think of that as working out since other people will walk a mile after work in sweatpants and count THAT as working out. that probably accounts for the overlap. and then you add in the people who are asleep and dreaming that they would work out if it weren't all hard and stuff (these people, when awake, actually do work out, or think they're working out, but it's controversial). and where all three of those sets meet - all of those people use the speck iPhone case.

case closed.

smh @ that

vennsanity

http://andrewgelman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/n.png

http://i48.tinypic.com/106a44o.png

awesome! can we get a version without truncated board titles?

or rather, more distinguishably truncated?

do the circles represent the # of threads, # of posts, bandwidth, or something else?

No! (xpost)

Not because I don't want to, but I don't know how to do it.

Z S - it's number of posts.

However, here is one excluding ILM and ILE, which reveals more:

http://i45.tinypic.com/5po0ls.png

thx boo <3

one last question, sorry keith - is this from the beginning of ILX, or only the last year or so?

Since day one.

Ask A Drunk's showing made the time frame all-too-obvious to me. These days I can spit in all directions 30 days a month and never hit another drunk.

Here's a more readable one, with the "I Love" taken out:

http://i46.tinypic.com/rtnioo.png

http://i.imgur.com/l83uT8W.png

http://i.imgur.com/6QTxTcS.png

So this thing

http://www.bloomberg.com/dataview/2014-04-17/how-americans-die.html

knocked my fucking socks off.

also wow how have i never seen this thread

on the less impressive end of the spectrum: https://twitter.com/hrtbps/status/455966095384793088

omg

btw this seems like a good thread for horace "chartboy" dediu's new show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7yxU7lNHg