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The Social Media Revolution in Numbers

8 November 2010
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Is social media a fad? Or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Do you like what social media says about your brand? More importantly — Are You Ready?
Socialnomics runs the numbers in this entertaining animation about the social media “revolution”. For example, how many years did it take radio, television, the Internet, the iPOD, [...]

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Shoutout to Taming Data Readers/Happy Halloween

31 October 2010
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I would like to wish each and every one of you a safe and Happy Halloween. Thank you for reading this blog. As part of my “thank you”, I’ve included Greg Fellin’s video “Happy Halloween“, which features “The Monster Mash” song. I’ve also added an infographic with some interesting facts about Halloween. (You can find [...]

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War Data: the Hidden Cost ($$$) of War

27 October 2010
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Can you estimate the true cost of war? What variables do you use? Is the cost of war only the salaries of the troops and the equipment they use? Should the cost estimates include lifetime medical care for injured troops? What about rebuilding the nation with which you are at war (assuming you win)? Do [...]

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War Data: a Short Profile of WikiLeaks

25 October 2010
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What happens when your data is leaked online? What happens when that data contradicts the official reports of a powerful government? What happens if that data is about a war, and the war is currently being fought?
Welcome to Wikileaks — an online site used by journalists and whistleblowers that provides public access to very private [...]

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Football – World’s Most Popular Sport

8 October 2010
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How would you explain a sport to a newbie with an animated infographic? If you are Ozgur Abaci and Aaron Bell, you choose football (soccer) and outline the basic rules.
There is a lot of information to cover, and it is compacted into less than two minutes using animation and a voice over.

What do you [...]

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A Day in the Life, London c.2002

22 September 2010
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If you wanted to show “a day in the life” of someone living in a major city, what features of their life would you choose to highlight? French motion graphics studio H5 decided to focus on the details of a 20-something living in London. Directed by Ludovic Houplan & Hervé de Crécy, the infographic is [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood, the Animated Infographic Version

20 September 2010
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If you were the Big Bad Wolf and you were on a diet, would you want to know how many calories Grandma contains? What about the cost of the bread and wine you, the parent, are sending to your mother or mother-in-law via your daughter? Tomas Nilsson took on the story of Little Red Riding [...]

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The Essence of the Credit Crisis, Visualized

10 September 2010
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How do you distill the essence of a complex and complicated set of data without watering it down so much the information become worthless? Jonathan Jarvis faced that question two years ago when he created the Crisis of Credit Visualized, “the Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis”.
I admit that I read the news [...]

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How Comedians Re-Use Government Data to Inform and Teach About White Collar Crime Using Movie End Credits

9 September 2010
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What does a Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg comedy have to do with the financial shenanigans of the past few years? White collar crime. I went to go see “The Other Guys” over Labor Day weekend, expecting some light entertainment. That, it certainly was. I had a good laugh.
What surprised me were the ending credits [...]

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London Underground Style Map of Modern Science — 500 Years of Science, Reason & Critical Thinking

1 September 2010
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If you wanted to “celebrate the achievements of the scientific method through the age of reason, the enlightenment and modernity”, how would you show this? Would you throw a party? Write a Very Long Paper or Book? Or, like Crispian Jago, would you create a map of the past 500 years of science using “Harry [...]

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