Why isn’t Global Warming on this chart? That would be a hilarious piece of data that would clearly need to be at the back of the graph due to the absurd amount of media coverage. People love that s…
Beautiful work here! We’re doing a bit of information visualisation for a final MA project in Interactive Media, but using museum artifacts and data – sort of like an interactive way of changing the view of the data. Finding it really hard to represent qualitative data, as opposed to statistics – do you have any thoughts/ ideas or advice?
I have to admit, this is hilarious! Innovation at its’ best.
Go and apply for an economics position within the W.H. immediately!
Surely you can outdo them all!
Just stumbled across the site, absolutely fantastic.
About this graphic, have you tried graphing so called ‘real’ news stories on it as well, for a sense of comparison? I’d be interesting to see peaks and dips in war related stories, and whether swine flu drowns them out or not.
“Funny” how the killer wasps have the appearance of shark fins, that surface each summer and that they are responsible for the highest number of fatalities.
At the British Traditional Molecatchers Register we deal with Molehills and the cause of them day in and day out and it is never surprising how small the cause of a big disturbance is…….. maybe if you have a real problem with real molehills we can help …..www.britishmolecatchers.co.uk
Visual love: immense
Content-wise: strange, I would have thought that the ‘Iraq and weapons of mass destruction’ hysteria would actually top this chart…?
There is something about visualizations that surpasses all words. The cliche “a picture speaks a thousand words” fits. There is a visuwords, that defines words with visualizations. Fascinating!
Why is mobile phones and tumors zero? Haven’t there been reputable studies very recently that say there might be some link? To say zero so authoritatively is misleading.
I am particularly interested in the annual periodicity of some of the events. For example, the killer wasps happens every year at a low intensity just after the middle of the year. The violent video game thing happens at the end of each year: it spikes and then drops, and then gradually increases again. And as a trend, it gradually decreases.
The massive bio-pandemic trend is really scary. SARS looks like a nice gradually increase, then Bird Flu hits, and has a very pronounced peak and is about 130% the intensity of SARS at its peak, and finally Swine Flu is a huge pronounced spike, around 200% SARS… The scary thing here is that, although the pandemic threats seem to be getting farther apart, they are also getting exponentially more pronounced …. : / I’m not looking forward to the next one.
I wish that you had a numerical scale on the Y-axis. You say that intensity is measures as a number of news stories, but it would be interesting to know the scale involved. How many thousands of stories are we talking about here?
y2k cost $300,000,000,000 to fix . the reason nothing happened was that it was fixed!
we were lucky with the last flu epidemic, just plain lucky. next time might be different, next time might be 1918 revisited. there is a difference between risk analysis and prophesy – it not happening does not mean the risk was not there.
[...] Visualización de alarmas mediáticas según el número de historias recogidas en Google News. Para comparar, en la leyenda inferior se recogen las amenazas junto con el número de muertes a nivel mundial que han provocado. En la mayor parte es cero, y la amenaza más letal parecen ser las “abejas asesinas”, que se han llevado por delante a 1000 personas, cuatro veces más que la gripe aviar. [...]
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Why isn’t Global Warming on this chart? That would be a hilarious piece of data that would clearly need to be at the back of the graph due to the absurd amount of media coverage. People love that s…
Beautiful work here! We’re doing a bit of information visualisation for a final MA project in Interactive Media, but using museum artifacts and data – sort of like an interactive way of changing the view of the data. Finding it really hard to represent qualitative data, as opposed to statistics – do you have any thoughts/ ideas or advice?
love the site. but you spelt “Millennium Bug” with only one N :(
Sounds cool. Can you mail me at informationisbeautiful [at] gmail with maybe a few details on the data etc. Thanks! D
think you left off terrorism
That is a very arresting visualisation. How did you determine the “intensity” of stories though?
My bad – my old lady eyes couldn’t read the lower case grey text on the Y axis. Damn I need new glasses…
That’s truly beautiful dude
What about terrorism?
“In the 29 OECD countries for which comparable data were available, the annual average death rate from road injury was approximately 390 times that from international terrorism.”
http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/6/332
Pity it doesn’t go back further.
I have to admit, this is hilarious! Innovation at its’ best.
Go and apply for an economics position within the W.H. immediately!
Surely you can outdo them all!
Just stumbled across the site, absolutely fantastic.
About this graphic, have you tried graphing so called ‘real’ news stories on it as well, for a sense of comparison? I’d be interesting to see peaks and dips in war related stories, and whether swine flu drowns them out or not.
Shane – Exactly
Great graph – a few more typos; you’ve called it “Austism vaccinations”. It’s an MMR vaccination, and the apparently-unrelated-condition is autism.
lovely graph… need to add the upcoming 2012 Mayan Calender fun…
“Funny” how the killer wasps have the appearance of shark fins, that surface each summer and that they are responsible for the highest number of fatalities.
At the British Traditional Molecatchers Register we deal with Molehills and the cause of them day in and day out and it is never surprising how small the cause of a big disturbance is…….. maybe if you have a real problem with real molehills we can help …..www.britishmolecatchers.co.uk
Visual love: immense
Content-wise: strange, I would have thought that the ‘Iraq and weapons of mass destruction’ hysteria would actually top this chart…?
Great graph.That’s really funny !I want to buy a copy of your book, definitely !This is amazing visualisation.Thanks for sharing it here…
Where is 2012 and global warming? Oh wait… You guys probably are one of those really smart about every thing else but this shits legit types… meh.
There is something about visualizations that surpasses all words. The cliche “a picture speaks a thousand words” fits. There is a visuwords, that defines words with visualizations. Fascinating!
where is the dec 2004 Indian ocean earthquake/tsunami?
Why is mobile phones and tumors zero? Haven’t there been reputable studies very recently that say there might be some link? To say zero so authoritatively is misleading.
I am particularly interested in the annual periodicity of some of the events. For example, the killer wasps happens every year at a low intensity just after the middle of the year. The violent video game thing happens at the end of each year: it spikes and then drops, and then gradually increases again. And as a trend, it gradually decreases.
The massive bio-pandemic trend is really scary. SARS looks like a nice gradually increase, then Bird Flu hits, and has a very pronounced peak and is about 130% the intensity of SARS at its peak, and finally Swine Flu is a huge pronounced spike, around 200% SARS… The scary thing here is that, although the pandemic threats seem to be getting farther apart, they are also getting exponentially more pronounced …. : / I’m not looking forward to the next one.
This assumes that a crisis averted was a crisis that never existed. Not a wise trend.
I wish that you had a numerical scale on the Y-axis. You say that intensity is measures as a number of news stories, but it would be interesting to know the scale involved. How many thousands of stories are we talking about here?
This is really beautiful !!
Kudos to the creator!
y2k cost $300,000,000,000 to fix . the reason nothing happened was that it was fixed!
we were lucky with the last flu epidemic, just plain lucky. next time might be different, next time might be 1918 revisited. there is a difference between risk analysis and prophesy – it not happening does not mean the risk was not there.
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