I’ve always been a fan of the odd graph or two, I don’t see how you can’t like graphs to be honest? All of that beauty, art and knowledge wrapped into a bite sized, easy on the eye, info-nugget. What’s not to like?
In the modern era of “big data” these things are churned out like popcorn in a cinema, and that shouldn’t put us off. Us humans get sick of hearing about things pretty quickly; I was very excited by the term big data when it first started getting banded about, and then like everything else that’s often repeated I started getting jazzed off with it. I just wanted people to stop showing off about how many numbers they owned. But that was silly of me. I know.
So I’ve popped together a bunch of graphs and infographics that I personally think are pretty interesting (if a little pointless), and I hope you do to. Most images will increase in size if you give them a quick click:
So we’ll start with some maps that show which regions of each country have more bars than grocery stores. Is this important information? No, I suppose it isn’t.
The data comes from Google Places API and was lovingly collated manually. The greener the dots, the more grocery stores there are and the browner the dots the more bars…
People love all this running around malarkey these days and with the invention of more and more hi-tech ways of registering how far you’ve gone and showing off about it, this data is now easily collected. The maker of these maps used data from RunKeeper.
It’s useless information I guess, but it’s in such a lovely format.
We’re all getting fatter, and this video charts the fattness of America from 1985-2009… which state will win the booby prize!?
Made with data taken from the London Fire Brigade, they’ve mapped out in glorious technicolour the trips that our hard working fire chaps have had to make. Each of the 144,000 lines is a single trip made by a fire truck. It’s sort of ironic that it looks like a massive fireworks accident…
MORE DATA SHENNANIGANS:
META-ANALYSIS – LESS BORING THAN YOU THOUGHT?
GOOGLE TRENDS WILL OPEN YOUR EYES
This infographic is by Thomas Porostocky and apparently is Bill Gates’ favourite graph of 2013. That big yellow starvation block is a sick joke after watching the US obesity video above.
Again, I’m not sure how much use I’ll get out of this but my oh my what a beauty. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicted that by 2032 there could be as many as 30,000 drones flying over U.S. Soil alone. These bad boys vary in size from 1 m across for a basic commercially available drone up to 40 m across for the Global Hawk.
You may have come across this next graphic before in various formats, but each time I look at it I simply can NOT believe how much scrolling is involved. Truly mind bending, mind boggling and mind numbing… this is the best demonstration of how deep the ocean is without getting your feet wet:
Eye opening WWII death toll stats on next page…
Here’s how you create a successful article:
I should probably take heed of this one: I got a video embedded, share buttons – check, numbered list, OK… actually word count is a little low here so I’ll try and beef it out a bit, bear with me… ahem… words words words words words words words words words words words words words words. That should do it.
What really is the most energy efficient method of transport then?:
I guess I’d better stop riding the cruise liner to work then hey?
Fairly random one to end with. But it’s pretty telling if you ask me… They asked some French people (I have no idea of how big the sample was or how it was chosen I’m afraid) and asked them how big the Russian contribution to the allies in WWII was at three different points in time:
Public perception of how history played out is one thing, the reality is quite, quite different. Apparently there’s a frighteningly large number of Americans that think the Russians were actually enemies in WWII. Here’s some real numbers to put things into shocking perspective:
Right, so that’s probably not how those figures were expected to look by most of the world I would assume. I was surprised, especially by China in the last graph?
I hope you enjoyed those, if you find any good ones pass them my way please. And for the love of god hit the share buttons…
