graphspergers - the graphs and quantitative visualization thread

    
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so angry

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4505748943_6dcb4894f7_b.jpg

made y'all a graph

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/sauron_ngc4570.gif

ta

np

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw

Video Created by Scott Manley, this is a view of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones.
The final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system.
Earth Crossers are Red
Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow
All Others are Green

Notice now the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit, most discoveries are made in the region directly opposite the Sun. You'll also notice some clusters of discoveries on the line between Earth and Jupiter, these are the result of surveys looking for Jovian moons. Similar clusters of discoveries can be tied to the other outer planets, but those are not visible in this video.

As the video moves into the mid 1990's we see much higher discovery rates as automated sky scanning systems come online. Most of the surveys are imaging the sky directly opposite the sun and you'll see a region of high discovery rates aligned in this manner.

At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. These new observations are the result of the WISE (Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer) which is a space mission that's tasked with imaging the entire sky in infrared wavelengths.

The scale of the video at 1080P resolution is roughly 1million kilometers per pixel, and each second of video corresponds to 60 days.

Currently we have observed over half a million minor planets, and the discovery rates show no sign that we're running out of undiscovered objects, scientific estimates suggest that there are about a billion asteroids larger than 100metres (about the size of a football field) .

http://www.infomercantile.com/images/e/ef/Fallout_Map,_3-23-1963-Saturday-Evening-Post.jpg

http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/03/cold-war-wind-patterns-1963.html

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662328/infographics-of-the-day-how-segregated-is-your-city

i knew detroit was bad, but look at the degree of clusteredness there! the segregation is so sharply defined, you could set your watch to it (and the time would be racist o'clock).

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?