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21 Comments
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!
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