Real-​​World Objects as Infographics

via fast company. I LOL’d but then realised literacy of infographics and data visu­al­isa­tions has become main­stream. Which makes me even happier. I do hope that that the pilot and crew don’t need to consult the diagrams in order to get their plans into the sky. The airline is Kulala, based in South Africa, with the

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Christmas Venns

For your geek buddies.

Found here, where there are plenty more, avail­able to buy as cards.

Have an excel­lent Christmas, if I don’t write again before then.

The Web is Female

Like many people, I’m really looking forward to the UK pub­lic­a­tion of David McCandless’ The Visual Miscellaneum.

This graphic might come as a surprise to some people. If the main way you’ve found out about social media is through con­fer­ence pro­grammes and the most fre­quently cited blog posts, you could not be blamed for

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Re-​​Reading Web 2.0 Infographics

We love our infograms, don’t we, the digerati, the twit­tering classes? These inform­a­tion graphics, or data visu­al­isa­tions. I don’t think there’s another field of the social sciences quite so keen on com­plic­ated graphs that half-​​​​explain them­selves and suggest trans­par­ency and half are a subtle appeal to the imagination.

Because these images are machine-​​​​generated, there’s a tempta­tion to believe

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