How To Get Replies Online Dating
Dating site OKCupid examined which words in an opening email to women increased or decreased the chances of a reply. Hilarious and revealing.
Christopher Niemann
This US illustrator does a nice line in hand-drawn infographics
(I also like his ‘I Confess’ range)
How many troops has each country sent to Afghanistan?
Ok I did this one. But I think it’s an important question. And quite surprising.
Susanna Hertrich: Reality Checking Device
A visual device for getting some perspective. Nice!
(sorry about the tiny screen shot – it’s the only one I could find) UPDATE: Here’s a big version (Thanks to Matthew Goldthwaite)
If you come across any visual delights, please send them through.
Kyoto: Who’s On Target?
There’s a lot of talk of a new world climate agreement in Copenhagen in December to succeed Kyoto. I wondered how the signatories of the first one were doing. Make up your own mind.
As ever, this was difficult to research. A lot of the important data was locked in a huge European Environment Agency report. And then summarised by a byzantine graph. In the end I had to trawl through individual country reports to get the figures I needed.
It was also tricky to visualise. I chose quite a designery approach which demands that you dig into the image a bit to get the understanding flowing. I hope the result isn’t too byzantine either.
The design took several versions to get right. If you’re interested, you can see some drafts here (or as a PDF).
Process: See a image of early versions or download an editable PDF.
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