Does this infographic reflect your experiences as a freelancer?
Source:
http://www.creativebloq.com/career/are-these-best-cities-live-freelancer-41514625
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Does this infographic reflect your experiences as a freelancer?
Source:
http://www.creativebloq.com/career/are-these-best-cities-live-freelancer-41514625
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Talk about big data! This week we found a map of the Internet, an infographic of the loneliest islands on Earth, and a visualization of the distance to Mars in pixels. We think you’ll also get a kick out of a video game based on infographics and Persian rugs made from Google Maps images. After you’ve caught up on the best in this week’s information design, check out our past posts.
[Infographic] Loneliest Islands
Inspired by Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands, this infographic created by Kanny Yeung shows the 50 loneliest islands on Earth ranking each island by number of inhabitants and it’s proximity to other islands.
[App] Map of the Internet
This app is a 3D visualization of the worldwide system of networks that connect together to form the Internet. The map shows ISPs, exchange points, and organizations that route online traffic and allows you to zoom in, pan and explore these global connections at a mind-blowing level of detail. Grab it now for free for both Android and iPhone!
[Visualization] British Casualties in Afghanistan
LONO, a UK based creative agency, tasked themselves with making the numbers surrounding British troop casualties in Afghanistan more accessible to a wide audience. Without a key this visualization may not be the easiest to read as it isn’t 100% clear that the colours represent the different years, however by breaking down the data by year and by month they have painted a vivid picture of these staggering numbers.
[Visualization] Out of Sight
A startling visualization that tells the story of the thousands of people killed by U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan. The aim of this project was not to speak for or against the usage of drones, but to bring to light the topic and to inform the public so they are able to form their own opinion based on the evidence.
[App] Future Urban World
Over 50% of the world’s population lives in an urban world, driving significant economic transformations. This app by McKinsey & Company seeks to help users understand the sheer scale of urbanization by plotting economic and demographic data onto interactive maps, giving them access to figures about population, household incomes and GDP.
[Game] Metrico Chart Game
Metrico is, at it’s core, a puzzle game for the PS Vita, but what makes this game unique, is that is centres around a world created from charts. The idea came to the creators after they noticed how beautiful infographics can look as an art form, and subsequently drove the style and type of interaction throughout the rest of the game.
[Cartography] Google Maps as Persian Rugs
Ever wondered what a map would look like as a rug? Well now you can! David Thomas Smith’s latest project called Anthropocene involves stitching together thousands of Google Maps images into complex patterns inspired by intricately detailed Persian rugs. Stunning!
[Visualization] Distance to Mars
It’s often hard to fully comprehend the unfathomable distances of space, but this handy little graphic-based visualization aims to put things in perspective by showing you the distance to Mars in pixels. Mind-blowing!
[Video] Kobe Bryant’s Salary
Every 60 seconds Kobe Bryant earns $162.55, which stands in stark contrast to a U.S. minimum wage worker who would earn around $0.12 for the same amount of time. This short video by CNN Money really highlights just how effective and poignant a simple chart can be.
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Talk about big data! This week we found a map of the Internet, an infographic of the loneliest islands on Earth, and a visualization of the distance to Mars in pixels. We think you’ll also get a kick out of a video game based on infographics and Persian rugs made from Google Maps images. After you’ve caught up on the best in this week’s information design, check out our past posts.
[Infographic] Loneliest Islands
Inspired by Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands, this infographic created by Kanny Yeung shows the 50 loneliest islands on Earth ranking each island by number of inhabitants and it’s proximity to other islands.
[App] Map of the Internet
This app is a 3D visualization of the worldwide system of networks that connect together to form the Internet. The map shows ISPs, exchange points, and organizations that route online traffic and allows you to zoom in, pan and explore these global connections at a mind-blowing level of detail. Grab it now for free for both Android and iPhone!
[Visualization] British Casualties in Afghanistan
LONO, a UK based creative agency, tasked themselves with making the numbers surrounding British troop casualties in Afghanistan more accessible to a wide audience. Without a key this visualization may not be the easiest to read as it isn’t 100% clear that the colours represent the different years, however by breaking down the data by year and by month they have painted a vivid picture of these staggering numbers.
[Visualization] Out of Sight
A startling visualization that tells the story of the thousands of people killed by U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan. The aim of this project was not to speak for or against the usage of drones, but to bring to light the topic and to inform the public so they are able to form their own opinion based on the evidence.
[App] Future Urban World
Over 50% of the world’s population lives in an urban world, driving significant economic transformations. This app by McKinsey & Company seeks to help users understand the sheer scale of urbanization by plotting economic and demographic data onto interactive maps, giving them access to figures about population, household incomes and GDP.
[Game] Metrico Chart Game
Metrico is, at it’s core, a puzzle game for the PS Vita, but what makes this game unique, is that is centres around a world created from charts. The idea came to the creators after they noticed how beautiful infographics can look as an art form, and subsequently drove the style and type of interaction throughout the rest of the game.
[Cartography] Google Maps as Persian Rugs
Ever wondered what a map would look like as a rug? Well now you can! David Thomas Smith’s latest project called Anthropocene involves stitching together thousands of Google Maps images into complex patterns inspired by intricately detailed Persian rugs. Stunning!
[Visualization] Distance to Mars
It’s often hard to fully comprehend the unfathomable distances of space, but this handy little graphic-based visualization aims to put things in perspective by showing you the distance to Mars in pixels. Mind-blowing!
[Video] Kobe Bryant’s Salary
Every 60 seconds Kobe Bryant earns $162.55, which stands in stark contrast to a U.S. minimum wage worker who would earn around $0.12 for the same amount of time. This short video by CNN Money really highlights just how effective and poignant a simple chart can be.
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From antique cartography to personalized logs, lots of beautiful connections mapped out this week! We also found visualizations that make sense of mythological relationships, suss out the virality of content, and a font like none other. Find out more below and then catch up on past weeks here.
[Cartography] Big Map Blog
During research for a film he was working on, The 59 King came across thousands of old, beautiful maps that would normally have been kept away from public viewing in archives or government FTP sites. With Big Map Blog, he aims to provide better access to each of these fantastic examples of cartography 5 days a week.
[Visualization] Women’s Political Rights Around the World
To mark International Woman’s Day last Friday, The Guardian created this timeline-based map to track women’s political rights throughout the last 150 years. It is startling to see that in some parts of the world, women are still not allowed to vote.
[Visualization] Zeus’s Affairs
Zeus was a promiscuous fellow, forming many relationships during his existence and procreating left, right and center. This visualization helps to demystify Zeus’s genealogy as described by a number of authors.
[Tools] Map Font
This font, created by UX designer Ben Markowitz, allows the user to create simple data maps of the U.S. by just typing out a few letters. The font acts in a similar way to Webdings, where each letter represents a state, and is easily styled with CSS. It’s also free to download!
[Social] Tweeted Trips
Want to record your travels on a map, post photos and comments? Then look no further than this handy web app. Tweeted Trips allows you to share your journey without the need for GPS equipment. All you need is your Twitter account!
[Social] Alongside.co
Ever wondered if your Foursquare friends are near you whilst you were checked in to a place? Now you can find that out with alongside.co, a web app that visualizes the proximity of your Foursquare relationships with colourful lines. Anyone at SXSW this week should definitely log in with their Foursquare account!
[Visualization] Average Commute Times
A mind-blowing amount of data has been crammed into this map, which visualizes the average commute times across the entirety of the U.S., allowing you to zoom right into your town, no matter where you live.
[Visualisation] ViralSearch
Developed by members of the Microsoft Research team, ViralSearch analyzes billions of pieces of information on Twitter news, videos and photos to determine whether something has, in fact, gone viral. Watch the short intro video here.
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From antique cartography to personalized logs, lots of beautiful connections mapped out this week! We also found visualizations that make sense of mythological relationships, suss out the virality of content, and a font like none other. Find out more below and then catch up on past weeks here.
[Cartography] Big Map Blog
During research for a film he was working on, The 59 King came across thousands of old, beautiful maps that would normally have been kept away from public viewing in archives or government FTP sites. With Big Map Blog, he aims to provide better access to each of these fantastic examples of cartography 5 days a week.
[Visualization] Women’s Political Rights Around the World
To mark International Woman’s Day last Friday, The Guardian created this timeline-based map to track women’s political rights throughout the last 150 years. It is startling to see that in some parts of the world, women are still not allowed to vote.
[Visualization] Zeus’s Affairs
Zeus was a promiscuous fellow, forming many relationships during his existence and procreating left, right and center. This visualization helps to demystify Zeus’s genealogy as described by a number of authors.
[Tools] Map Font
This font, created by UX designer Ben Markowitz, allows the user to create simple data maps of the U.S. by just typing out a few letters. The font acts in a similar way to Webdings, where each letter represents a state, and is easily styled with CSS. It’s also free to download!
[Social] Tweeted Trips
Want to record your travels on a map, post photos and comments? Then look no further than this handy web app. Tweeted Trips allows you to share your journey without the need for GPS equipment. All you need is your Twitter account!
[Social] Alongside.co
Ever wondered if your Foursquare friends are near you whilst you were checked in to a place? Now you can find that out with alongside.co, a web app that visualizes the proximity of your Foursquare relationships with colourful lines. Anyone at SXSW this week should definitely log in with their Foursquare account!
[Visualization] Average Commute Times
A mind-blowing amount of data has been crammed into this map, which visualizes the average commute times across the entirety of the U.S., allowing you to zoom right into your town, no matter where you live.
[Visualisation] ViralSearch
Developed by members of the Microsoft Research team, ViralSearch analyzes billions of pieces of information on Twitter news, videos and photos to determine whether something has, in fact, gone viral. Watch the short intro video here.
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This week’s roundup is a good reminder of how visualizations add to the stories that raw data tells. From carbon emissions to Batman, this crop of data visualizations lead us to some astonishing insights. See what we mean below, and then catch up on our past accounts here.
[Visualization] An Interactive Analysis of Tolkien’s Works
A visually rich repository of graphs and interactive visualizations that take a look at the many written works of Tolkien. If you’re either a data geek or a Tolkien nerd, you’ll love what the LOTR Project has put together here.
[Infographic] Units of Measurement
This exquisite calendar poster by Acre beautifully details 12 of the most common measurements used by people in their day-to-day life and some not so common, including astronomical units, decibel and aperture. Absolutely indispensable!
[Infographic] Among the Oscar Contenders
The New York Times have created this unusual looking network map to show the history and connections between this year’s Oscar nominated actors, producers and directors. Hover over the different elements to find out more.
[Map] Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks
Overlay income data with Google Maps, and what do you get? A super detailed, easy to read visualization of every wealthy and not-so-wealthy neighbourhood in the U.S.
[Infographic] The Colour of Popular Music
More fantastic work from Dorothy, the design agency that brought us the Film and Song Maps. This time, with The Colour of Popular Music, Dorothy has taken the names of 154 bands and artists with a color in their title, including the likes of Black Sabbath, White Stripes and Deep Purple, and plotted them onto a color wheel, which subsequently looks like a record!
[Visualization] Emission Globe
Designed by Robbie Tilton, The Emission Globe represents the world’s carbon emissions by country. In Robbie’s worlds “the globe hopes to bring awareness to the massive amount of pollution we generate, and encourages us as a global society to start proactively acting to reduce our environmental impact.”
[Book] My Life in Graphs
A wonderful personal compendium full of fill-in-yourself tables, diagrams and charts to visually record your life. The perfect gift for that data nerd in your life!
[Chart] Danger of Death!
Using U.S. data, The Economist has created this enlightening chart that details the odds of dying from a wide variety of causes. For example, did you know that it’s more likely for you to be killed by lightning than a dog bite or a bee / wasp sting?
[Chart Humor] Tracking the Name Bruce
And to round off this week, we have this charming chart that highlights the fact that if you track the popularity of the name Bruce, you get Batman. Enjoy!
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This week’s roundup is a good reminder of how visualizations add to the stories that raw data tells. From carbon emissions to Batman, this crop of data visualizations lead us to some astonishing insights. See what we mean below, and then catch up on our past accounts here.
[Visualization] An Interactive Analysis of Tolkien’s Works
A visually rich repository of graphs and interactive visualizations that take a look at the many written works of Tolkien. If you’re either a data geek or a Tolkien nerd, you’ll love what the LOTR Project has put together here.
[Infographic] Units of Measurement
This exquisite calendar poster by Acre beautifully details 12 of the most common measurements used by people in their day-to-day life and some not so common, including astronomical units, decibel and aperture. Absolutely indispensable!
[Infographic] Among the Oscar Contenders
The New York Times have created this unusual looking network map to show the history and connections between this year’s Oscar nominated actors, producers and directors. Hover over the different elements to find out more.
[Map] Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks
Overlay income data with Google Maps, and what do you get? A super detailed, easy to read visualization of every wealthy and not-so-wealthy neighbourhood in the U.S.
[Infographic] The Colour of Popular Music
More fantastic work from Dorothy, the design agency that brought us the Film and Song Maps. This time, with The Colour of Popular Music, Dorothy has taken the names of 154 bands and artists with a color in their title, including the likes of Black Sabbath, White Stripes and Deep Purple, and plotted them onto a color wheel, which subsequently looks like a record!
[Visualization] Emission Globe
Designed by Robbie Tilton, The Emission Globe represents the world’s carbon emissions by country. In Robbie’s worlds “the globe hopes to bring awareness to the massive amount of pollution we generate, and encourages us as a global society to start proactively acting to reduce our environmental impact.”
[Book] My Life in Graphs
A wonderful personal compendium full of fill-in-yourself tables, diagrams and charts to visually record your life. The perfect gift for that data nerd in your life!
[Chart] Danger of Death!
Using U.S. data, The Economist has created this enlightening chart that details the odds of dying from a wide variety of causes. For example, did you know that it’s more likely for you to be killed by lightning than a dog bite or a bee / wasp sting?
[Chart Humor] Tracking the Name Bruce
And to round off this week, we have this charming chart that highlights the fact that if you track the popularity of the name Bruce, you get Batman. Enjoy!
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Where do people check-in in your town? What do people name their dogs in New York City? This edition of The Graphic Account answers all these questions and more. Read up on the best in information design below, then catch up on any past posts you missed here.
[Visualisation] U.S. Gun Murders in 2010
Periscopic have created this eye-opening visualization that examines the FBI’s Crime Report figures on gun murders. In 2010 alone, almost 10,000 people were killed, 58% of who were aged 30 or younger.
[Map] Foursquare Check-ins
Foursquare shows you what over 500,000,000 check-ins looks like with their latest map-based visualization. Part of the beauty of the map is that it allows you to zoom right in to your city showing you where the hive of activity is in your area.
[Inspiration] Handmade Data Visualisation
These wonderfully simple, but effective, charts prove that data visualization can really bring statistics to life.
[Visualisation] Flowing City
A repository of fantastic city-based visualizations ranging from Taxis in Vienna to explorations of a data-driven operating system for cities.
[Inspiration] Histomap Revisited
The Histomap is probably one of the most well-recognized early examples of information design. It summarizes over 4,000 years worth of world history, not only mapping the rise and fall of various empires, but also logging key events in the past. Santiago Ortiz took The Histomap one step further and made it interactive! Now you can easily scroll through thousands of years of history, and click on the time periods to find out more. Marvelous!
[App] WeatherTable
WeatherTable is a soon-to-be-released app for iPhone which displays a visual overview of the day’s weather, hour-by-hour using nice, clean charts.
[Chart Humour] Personal Finance on a Napkin
Over on The New York Times, Carl Richards, a financial planner, explains the basics of money through simple sketches on napkins.
[Cartography] Dogs of NYC
Dogs of NYC provides you with a way to explore New York City’s dog names and breeds by area, right down to the zip code!
[Inspiration] Hand-drawn Infographic
Olivia King, a typographer from Sydney, painstakingly hand-drew this delightful infographic for The Distillery, all about printing with ink, including a chart of the PMS quantities proportional to their print runs.
[Inspiration] Heartbeats
And if you haven’t gotten your fill of romance yet, Pop Chart Labs have created this lovely poster which distills nearly 200 heart-based songs from popular music into individual “cardiac icons.”
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Where do people check-in in your town? What do people name their dogs in New York City? This edition of The Graphic Account answers all these questions and more. Read up on the best in information design below, then catch up on any past posts you missed here.
[Visualisation] U.S. Gun Murders in 2010
Periscopic have created this eye-opening visualization that examines the FBI’s Crime Report figures on gun murders. In 2010 alone, almost 10,000 people were killed, 58% of who were aged 30 or younger.
[Map] Foursquare Check-ins
Foursquare shows you what over 500,000,000 check-ins looks like with their latest map-based visualization. Part of the beauty of the map is that it allows you to zoom right in to your city showing you where the hive of activity is in your area.
[Inspiration] Handmade Data Visualisation
These wonderfully simple, but effective, charts prove that data visualization can really bring statistics to life.
[Visualisation] Flowing City
A repository of fantastic city-based visualizations ranging from Taxis in Vienna to explorations of a data-driven operating system for cities.
[Inspiration] Histomap Revisited
The Histomap is probably one of the most well-recognized early examples of information design. It summarizes over 4,000 years worth of world history, not only mapping the rise and fall of various empires, but also logging key events in the past. Santiago Ortiz took The Histomap one step further and made it interactive! Now you can easily scroll through thousands of years of history, and click on the time periods to find out more. Marvelous!
[App] WeatherTable
WeatherTable is a soon-to-be-released app for iPhone which displays a visual overview of the day’s weather, hour-by-hour using nice, clean charts.
[Chart Humour] Personal Finance on a Napkin
Over on The New York Times, Carl Richards, a financial planner, explains the basics of money through simple sketches on napkins.
[Cartography] Dogs of NYC
Dogs of NYC provides you with a way to explore New York City’s dog names and breeds by area, right down to the zip code!
[Inspiration] Hand-drawn Infographic
Olivia King, a typographer from Sydney, painstakingly hand-drew this delightful infographic for The Distillery, all about printing with ink, including a chart of the PMS quantities proportional to their print runs.
[Inspiration] Heartbeats
And if you haven’t gotten your fill of romance yet, Pop Chart Labs have created this lovely poster which distills nearly 200 heart-based songs from popular music into individual “cardiac icons.”
]]>In August 2010, JESS3 took one giant step for geosocial networking with the introduction of The Geosocial Universe infographic, mapping this new world for the first time. Last year, the map got updated. And now, with changes to the social landscape occurring at lightspeed, JESS3 presents its third iteration of The Geosocial Universe, charting the latest monthly active user data for various social networks, along with the percentage of users who access each network via mobile devices.
Take a look below to discover more about the ever-expanding geosocial universe and the course of its objects.
According to designer Lane Kinkade, “The latest version puts a stronger emphasis on mobile user activation in the geosocial universe. The lighthearted, fun style makes the data more digestible, and the space-themed illustrations are a nice bonus.”
So, what are the major changes in data? An influx of completely mobile apps, to start. There are the rising stars: Snapchat and Facebook’s Poke (pictured as a sneaky spy satellite, to illustrate its mysterious origins); Socialcam, with 1 million monthly active users; and Path, which is chugging along at 5 million. Then there’s shooting star Instagram, which still claims 90 million monthly active users, even after reportedly losing half after a TOS change in early 2013. Generation M, indeed.
In another corner of the Universe, we have the giants: Facebook nearly doubled in size since the last time around, now boasting over a billion users; Skype, which has neither grown nor shrank; Twitter, up 158.5% from last year; and China’s Qzone and newcomer Sina Weibo (which released its English-language interface in January).
However, the real successes of the year were sales-driving Pinterest and 100-million-strong Google+. While neither is a new entity, they found their place in the geosocial stratosphere, gaining momentum and users. Pinterest in particular cemented itself in popular culture, influencing visual design and giving young women everywhere weddings to aspire to (or so the joke goes).
Finally, going gently into that good night were location-based networks Loopt, Brightkite, and Gowalla. All three shut down their services in 2012.
]]>In August 2010, JESS3 took one giant step for geosocial networking with the introduction of The Geosocial Universe infographic, mapping this new world for the first time. Last year, the map got updated. And now, with changes to the social landscape occurring at lightspeed, JESS3 presents its third iteration of The Geosocial Universe, charting the latest monthly active user data for various social networks, along with the percentage of users who access each network via mobile devices.
Take a look below to discover more about the ever-expanding geosocial universe and the course of its objects.
According to designer Lane Kinkade, “The latest version puts a stronger emphasis on mobile user activation in the geosocial universe. The lighthearted, fun style makes the data more digestible, and the space-themed illustrations are a nice bonus.”
So, what are the major changes in data? An influx of completely mobile apps, to start. There are the rising stars: Snapchat and Facebook’s Poke (pictured as a sneaky spy satellite, to illustrate its mysterious origins); Socialcam, with 1 million monthly active users; and Path, which is chugging along at 5 million. Then there’s shooting star Instagram, which still claims 90 million monthly active users, even after reportedly losing half after a TOS change in early 2013. Generation M, indeed.
In another corner of the Universe, we have the giants: Facebook nearly doubled in size since the last time around, now boasting over a billion users; Skype, which has neither grown nor shrank; Twitter, up 158.5% from last year; and China’s Qzone and newcomer Sina Weibo (which released its English-language interface in January).
However, the real successes of the year were sales-driving Pinterest and 100-million-strong Google+. While neither is a new entity, they found their place in the geosocial stratosphere, gaining momentum and users. Pinterest in particular cemented itself in popular culture, influencing visual design and giving young women everywhere weddings to aspire to (or so the joke goes).
Finally, going gently into that good night were location-based networks Loopt, Brightkite, and Gowalla. All three shut down their services in 2012.
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In a world where most people fast-forward through commercials, the Super Bowl is one event where the advertisements are part of the spectacle. The prices for these spots have skyrocketed in the 45 years since the first Super Bowl—growing even faster than the salaries of the players themselves. Professional football players can afford a lot of things (like $6k meals at T.G.I.Friday’s), but only 10 of the players at this weekend’s Super Bowl XLVII, four Ravens and six 49ers, could foot the bill of one of the ads that airs during the commercial breaks.
We used three data sets: number of viewers (blue bars), ad cost (green line) and average NFL player salary (orange line) to graph how the dynamics have shifted since 1967. For the first part of the Super Bowl’s history, the price tags of players and commercials—both adjusted for inflation—followed at a close trajectory, with both taking off in the ’80s and ’90s. Then the tech boom happened. In the year 2000, ad costs spiked. During that Super Bowl, 19 tech companies aired commercials. Two months later, the bubble burst. Only one of those companies (E-Trade) has advertised during the big game since, and 8 of the 19 no longer exist.
Another overall trend we see is that ad costs haven’t exactly been pegged to ratings. While viewership in the U.S. has doubled since 1967, the price of an ad has increased 13-fold. This speaks volumes about the overall lucrativeness of the NFL and televised sports in general, especially now that live sports are the last bastion of commercials that actually get watched. Yet while ad costs have kept rising, salaries have declined in the wake of the 2011 labor dispute and lockout that resulted in a not-so-player-friendly collective bargaining agreement.
That means that, while the players themselves are often multimillionaires, they’re perhaps not getting as big of a chunk as we think they are. Though, Drew Brees could have bought a couple minutes of airtime with his signing bonus.
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In a world where most people fast-forward through commercials, the Super Bowl is one event where the advertisements are part of the spectacle. The prices for these spots have skyrocketed in the 45 years since the first Super Bowl—growing even faster than the salaries of the players themselves. Professional football players can afford a lot of things (like $6k meals at T.G.I.Friday’s), but only 10 of the players at this weekend’s Super Bowl XLVII, four Ravens and six 49ers, could foot the bill of one of the ads that airs during the commercial breaks.
We used three data sets: number of viewers (blue bars), ad cost (green line) and average NFL player salary (orange line) to graph how the dynamics have shifted since 1967. For the first part of the Super Bowl’s history, the price tags of players and commercials—both adjusted for inflation—followed at a close trajectory, with both taking off in the ’80s and ’90s. Then the tech boom happened. In the year 2000, ad costs spiked. During that Super Bowl, 19 tech companies aired commercials. Two months later, the bubble burst. Only one of those companies (E-Trade) has advertised during the big game since, and 8 of the 19 no longer exist.
Another overall trend we see is that ad costs haven’t exactly been pegged to ratings. While viewership in the U.S. has doubled since 1967, the price of an ad has increased 13-fold. This speaks volumes about the overall lucrativeness of the NFL and televised sports in general, especially now that live sports are the last bastion of commercials that actually get watched. Yet while ad costs have kept rising, salaries have declined in the wake of the 2011 labor dispute and lockout that resulted in a not-so-player-friendly collective bargaining agreement.
That means that, while the players themselves are often multimillionaires, they’re perhaps not getting as big of a chunk as we think they are. Though, Drew Brees could have bought a couple minutes of airtime with his signing bonus.
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With a new book release from Nathan Yau, two visualizations that examine the word choice of inaugural addresses, and a chart of sci-fi book covers, this edition of the Graphic Account gets literary. Along with being a bit bookish, look out for the best of XKCD and the most elegant solution to bus schedules that public transit could ever hope for. Missed our last journey through data visualization? Check it out here.
[Visualization] Twitter Activity in Real Time
If you ever wanted to know what was happening on Twitter right now on a global scale, now you can. Tweetping, a dashboard-style display that visualizes Twitter activity in real-time. As soon as you land on the site, all counters are set to zero and the map is dark, but within just a few minutes lights start to appear, and the counters move faster than you can blink.
[Book] Data Points: Visualization That Means Something
Nathan Yau of Flowing Data fame has just announced the release of his new book Data Points: Visualization that Means Something which will be published this April, and will focus on the graphical side of data analysis using examples from art, design, business and cartography.
[Inspiration] Color and Space
Colour and Space is a series of visualizations by Mie Frey Damgaard and Peter Ørntoft for paint brand Jotun. The goal is to show the relationship between color and space in different household areas by utilizing color statistics extracted from Pinterest. Watch their video on Behance to see how these paintings were created.
[Visualization] Inauguration Speeches
Last week, President Obama made his second inauguration speech. To show how it compared to those made by previous presidents, Santiago Ortiz created this fascinating visualization—which analyzes every inauguration speech since Richard Nixon—to determine what the most popular words were, and who said them.
[Visualization] American Inaugural Addresses
You can never have too many visualizations around one topic, so here we take another look at the presidential inauguration speeches. This visualization by the Boston Globe shows the most common words spoken throughout each of the speeches and how often they’re repeated.
[Chart] Penguin Science Fiction Covers
This strangely colored chart by Arthur Buxton visually represents all of the different covers for a number of top sci-fi novels over time. Each bar’s length corresponds to the amount of time in which that cover was in print, with colors also showing proportionally.
[App] Bus O’Clock
Sennep has revamped the traditional timetable by creating Bus O’Clock, a simple but effective app that charts live bus departures in London for your current location. Each colored dot represents a particular bus number, and it’s position on the clock is when the bus is due to arrive. Such an elegant and intuitive alternative to the bus timetable.
[Humor] The Infographics of XKCD
The web-comic XKCD is well-known for it’s humorous take on science, math, and the world. Occasionally, the XKCD crew branch out into information design with some wonderfully eye-opening charts. Halfblog.net has gathered some of their best examples all in one place for your perusal. Enjoy!
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With a new book release from Nathan Yau, two visualizations that examine the word choice of inaugural addresses, and a chart of sci-fi book covers, this edition of the Graphic Account gets literary. Along with being a bit bookish, look out for the best of XKCD and the most elegant solution to bus schedules that public transit could ever hope for. Missed our last journey through data visualization? Check it out here.
[Visualization] Twitter Activity in Real Time
If you ever wanted to know what was happening on Twitter right now on a global scale, now you can. Tweetping, a dashboard-style display that visualizes Twitter activity in real-time. As soon as you land on the site, all counters are set to zero and the map is dark, but within just a few minutes lights start to appear, and the counters move faster than you can blink.
[Book] Data Points: Visualization That Means Something
Nathan Yau of Flowing Data fame has just announced the release of his new book Data Points: Visualization that Means Something which will be published this April, and will focus on the graphical side of data analysis using examples from art, design, business and cartography.
[Inspiration] Color and Space
Colour and Space is a series of visualizations by Mie Frey Damgaard and Peter Ørntoft for paint brand Jotun. The goal is to show the relationship between color and space in different household areas by utilizing color statistics extracted from Pinterest. Watch their video on Behance to see how these paintings were created.
[Visualization] Inauguration Speeches
Last week, President Obama made his second inauguration speech. To show how it compared to those made by previous presidents, Santiago Ortiz created this fascinating visualization—which analyzes every inauguration speech since Richard Nixon—to determine what the most popular words were, and who said them.
[Visualization] American Inaugural Addresses
You can never have too many visualizations around one topic, so here we take another look at the presidential inauguration speeches. This visualization by the Boston Globe shows the most common words spoken throughout each of the speeches and how often they’re repeated.
[Chart] Penguin Science Fiction Covers
This strangely colored chart by Arthur Buxton visually represents all of the different covers for a number of top sci-fi novels over time. Each bar’s length corresponds to the amount of time in which that cover was in print, with colors also showing proportionally.
[App] Bus O’Clock
Sennep has revamped the traditional timetable by creating Bus O’Clock, a simple but effective app that charts live bus departures in London for your current location. Each colored dot represents a particular bus number, and it’s position on the clock is when the bus is due to arrive. Such an elegant and intuitive alternative to the bus timetable.
[Humor] The Infographics of XKCD
The web-comic XKCD is well-known for it’s humorous take on science, math, and the world. Occasionally, the XKCD crew branch out into information design with some wonderfully eye-opening charts. Halfblog.net has gathered some of their best examples all in one place for your perusal. Enjoy!
]]>This great divide led us to wonder which of the 177 bands playing Coachella is driving ticket sales. So we set out to measure just how popular this year’s lineup actually is, band by band. But what to measure? Record sales? No, everyone sells exactly 0 of those. We needed something that tracked loyalty, and for Millenials, which Coachella fans predominantly are, that meant Facebook. Using the Coachella roster we recorded each band’s placement on the lineup (each tier represents the line of the poster the band appears on) and their number of Facebook fans. Below are the charted results. Are the most popular acts are getting their proper share of the spotlight?
For the most part, yes. First up, the headliners. Despite some grumbling on the internet, The Red Hot Chili Peppers trump every other festival band with over 20m certified Facebook Likes. Phoenix and Blur also appear in top 10%. Only the Stone Roses don’t make it into the over-a-million-fans club.
From there, Facebook Likes decline steeply through the primetime and opening acts. Though, there are a couple of outliers. Some of the most “liked” bands are not headliners. German DJ Paul Kalkbrenner has the second highest number of Facebook fans (right after RHCP!), but falls within the middle section of the primetime acts. Similarly, Cafe Tacvba from Mexico has over 1m Likes, but a robust international audience has seemingly little impact on headlining in California.
Then there’s Nick Cave. He plays twice during the festival with two different bands: Grinderman and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Both bands have the same billing placement, but the latter has nearly 700k Facebook fans—10 times as many as Grinderman.
We should also mention a few other anomalies: bands that weren’t on Facebook at all (there’s eight), and, like in the case of Jurassic 5, bands that had an auto-generated community page, meaning they’re not maintaining an official Facebook page, but people are liking them anyway. By the way, the band Sparks has both, but we used the official Facebook page fan count.
This great divide led us to wonder which of the 177 bands playing Coachella is driving ticket sales. So we set out to measure just how popular this year’s lineup actually is, band by band. But what to measure? Record sales? No, everyone sells exactly 0 of those. We needed something that tracked loyalty, and for Millenials, which Coachella fans predominantly are, that meant Facebook. Using the Coachella roster we recorded each band’s placement on the lineup (each tier represents the line of the poster the band appears on) and their number of Facebook fans. Below are the charted results. Are the most popular acts are getting their proper share of the spotlight?
For the most part, yes. First up, the headliners. Despite some grumbling on the internet, The Red Hot Chili Peppers trump every other festival band with over 20m certified Facebook Likes. Phoenix and Blur also appear in top 10%. Only the Stone Roses don’t make it into the over-a-million-fans club.
From there, Facebook Likes decline steeply through the primetime and opening acts. Though, there are a couple of outliers. Some of the most “liked” bands are not headliners. German DJ Paul Kalkbrenner has the second highest number of Facebook fans (right after RHCP!), but falls within the middle section of the primetime acts. Similarly, Cafe Tacvba from Mexico has over 1m Likes, but a robust international audience has seemingly little impact on headlining in California.
Then there’s Nick Cave. He plays twice during the festival with two different bands: Grinderman and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Both bands have the same billing placement, but the latter has nearly 700k Facebook fans—10 times as many as Grinderman.
We should also mention a few other anomalies: bands that weren’t on Facebook at all (there’s eight), and, like in the case of Jurassic 5, bands that had an auto-generated community page, meaning they’re not maintaining an official Facebook page, but people are liking them anyway. By the way, the band Sparks has both, but we used the official Facebook page fan count.