Information Is Beautiful posted some great infographics about Twitter and its usage. I make no secret of my love for pretty charts and the like, so I found these to be pretty fun.
Read on for the full graph about peak days, hours, who’s a loudmouth and who’s a lazy tweeter. (more…)
Here’s about everything you need to know: once it happens, we’ll have about 3-6 hours until everyone in a city is infected, depending on whether or not we quarantine the infected. Here’s a glorious 18 page PDF with all kinds of smartpants equations and more charts.
In summary, a zombie outbreak is likely to lead to the collapse of civilisation, unless it is dealt with quickly. While aggressive quarantine may contain the epidemic, or a cure may lead to coexistence of humans and zombies, the most effective way to contain the rise of the undead is to hit hard and hit often. As seen in the movies, it is imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly, or else we are all in a great deal of trouble.
(Via @jennydeluxe and @gideonyago)
I love information graphics, that’s no secret. After Obama was inaugurated, I found the full text of his speech and made a Wordle with it and put it into a desktop for you.
You can download the background here.
What’s Wordle? It’s a really sweet service that makes word clouds and gives prominence to the words that appear most often. With this, you can see the words that appear most in his speech and get a feel for the overall tone and message of it. Go have a look at their site!
Enjoy it and share it with your friends!
I want a reason to visualize data like this. And then eat it. This pie chart is really made of chocolate!
Note to self: find client in chocolate industry. Right now.