How to do it wrong.
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It details how a helicopter delay meant that a British Soldier died in Afghanistan and, rather than have a map and a 3d comic book treatment they did a minute by minute flow chart which highlights the lost time. Not great in itself but nice to get away from the visual cliches. Done for Channel4 News online
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It radically changed the way we all interact and it has become the main medium of mass communication of our (if not all) time. Nevertheless it is used by just a few. How and why the Internet is still a technology available to less than 29% of the global population.
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Best trivia I learned while working on this: "Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?" Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
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This is a cool infographic timeline, showing the Darwinian Evolution of Microsoft Windows from version 1.0 in 1985 up through the current Windows 7 in 2009.
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The Department of Labor's latest annual survey provides a detailed look into how the average U.S. consumer unit spent their paycheck in 2009
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Who’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade?
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As a society, we don’t often stop to think about how much has changed in our lives in the past thousand years or even the past dozen. So here’s an infographical look at men throughout the ages.
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This is the official SoTech infographic V1.0 as unveiled at the #SoCol conference London 2010.
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Reading the entire English Wikipedia: It's possible.
If you don't like the idea of not sleeping for almost 15 years, here's an alternative plan. If you dedicated "only" 12 hours per day to reading Wikipedia and you read at average reading speed of 300 words per minute, it would take you 30 years to read 1447 volumes of Wikipedia. For Howard Stephen Berg it would take 130 days or a little bit more than 4 months.via www.sharenator.comPublished on Power of Data Visualization. Note: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click Permalink below to download bigger image.