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Microsoft adds Edward Tufte’s sparklines to Excel 2010 (via Michael Tsai - Blog - Sparklines in Excel)
Orgasm.
Edit: Buzzkill. Fuckin’ Microsoft…
Should You Dump Your High School Girlfriend?
What kind of drunk is she? Like slutty flirty or regular, nice girl, not-even-that-flirty-because-she’s-totally-not-like-that flirty? Trick question: they’re the same.
The “Ew, anal” is just perfection.
(by Bree Goodrow via I Love Charts)
Percent Job Losses in Post-WWII Recessions
That sinking feeling you get in your stomach when you’re speeding down a steep, fast roller-coaster? The whole country’s got it.
“I’ve been studying Michael for years and I’ve condensed what I’ve learned into this chart: ‘How Michael Spends His Time’. As you can see we have ‘procrastinating’ and ‘distracting others’. And this tiny sliver here is ‘critical thinking’.
I made it bigger so you could see it.”
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID.
Sorry, someone’s gotta say it. The Office has really been on a roll lately. I can’t wait until this Thursday’s big, much-hyped Jim and Pam wedding episode, ‘Niagara’!
The Best Movies of All Time Map
I love maps—actually, all forms of information visualizations are equally loved by me—but this one is especially awesome. I better wait until work dies down a little before poring over this, lest I look up and bam, it’s 4 PM and there’s a pile of things to do.
The New York Times has an excellent map of New York City homicides for the last six years, which supposedly also updates as information becomes available. You always hear about murders on the news but you never really think about how close they are to you or your family. This map removes all ambiguity; all reported homicides are plotted on the map along with the date, time of day, victim age, sex, race, and in most cases, even with the weapon used.
It’s startling to see exactly where, when, and sometimes even how someone was murdered. Predictably, more murders occur at night than during the day—two-thirds—and a vast majority of them are committed by males—a whopping 92%. You can also clearly see that many homicides are clustered in seedy neighborhoods in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
Thankfully, my neighborhood is one of the safest places in New York City, having only a couple of domestic disputes gone awry. Moreover, Asians commit only 3% of the homicides and victims in 4%, while making up 11.82% of the city (17.62% in Queens!), so I pretty fortunate.
I suspect soon in the future, this sort of thing will become even more up-to-date and incorporate more relevant information like possible suspects and links to appropriate news stories, along with a Twitter-like service that’ll allow citizens to report on crimes or accidents. Information visualization is a big deal, and the New York Times seems genuinely interested in interactive graphics, so I’ll be very much looking forward to their future work.
Television Size Over the Years
How much bigger do TVs need to be? I’ll need to check, but I’m pretty sure the Sony sitting in my parent’s living room is ‘only’ 42″—and it’s completely fine.
FWIW, I believe contrast ratio, color accuracy, refresh rate, and even display resolution are all much more important than just panel size.
Not to scale.
Fantastic infographic comparing the sales of different music retail formats over the years. I’ve been looking for something exactly like this because I know CD sales have plummeted lately but wanted more concrete numbers to analyze.
CD sales are unsurprisingly going down the toilet, but digital downloads are nowhere as high as I’d thought they’d be. No wonder the record companies are pissed.
(via Daring Fireball)
How to get shot by The Sartorialist
If I ever get fashionable enough—or make enough money to acquire fashionable enough apparel—to consider myself worthy of inclusion on The Sartorialist, I’ll definitely consult this handy flowchart for advice. Good for a laugh (at myself), at the very least.
Hoyin, take note. I know your aspirations!
(via FFFFOUND!)
