David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
www.ted.com David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
@DrQuijano I’m with cykolink – though USA has it the other way, in most other countries red is for the left and (maybe) blue on the right. Orange for the more socialized/unionized left, (red and) black for the fascists, green for the environmental, etc.
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Excellent stuff, really gets you thinking.
It would be AWESOME to visually see were our personal money goes
@DrQuijano That is a (quite strange) Americanism. For the majority of the countries in the world, red is the colour of the left and blue (if any) the right. Think Red Russia, Red China, Red Vietnam etc etc.
Calefacient piece of stuff, this is!
@takigan I respect a watch that is more badass than me.
(That’s not very much, but still. It’s very hard for a watch.)
He has some pretty pictures.
@nonz3r0
‘The smart witty and progressive crowd’ – I want in got the watch, but which suit, what hairstyle and which font is my favorite?
TED’s quality nose-dive plays out worse than Gibbons ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’.
@KGR89
I couldn’t agree more
It is ironic in the sense that this guy is trying to ‘shaft’ one with statistics in ways you never thought possible. The Obsequious Lackey with the gall to use the same PowerPoint magic to show OPEC = bad, US=Best, US army small and dainty, North Korea = military Behemoth . Can we arrange for Rosling to school this child.
We need a save TED campaign!!!
sorry… I dont find his data visuals to be beautiful
@Origen305 Ironically all this proves is that visual data can be jsut as easily manipulated as text data.
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The USA gives, per capita roughly $1.2 pa – contrast this with the roughly $4 that the UK gives, a similar figure to France. Seen in this light the majority of average Europeans (with several notable exceptions) donates roughly three-four times as much as the average American.
Source CIA World FactBook
I think it someone what disingenuous of someone of such a calibre to play sycophant to his US (?) funders, by omitting to mention a crucial factor when stating that the American’s are incredibly generous people (I do not doubt the statement given my own empirical encounters) but it is somewhat disingenuous (or obtuse) to reify the statement using the GROSS foreign aid donation figure when a PER CAPITA figure is the more normative value used (and more useful in so many ways).
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“When you’re lost in information, an information map is kinda useful.” Indeed.
dude got the colors wrong. left = blue. red = right.
“Let the dataset change your mindset.”
Nice one!
@takigan but if you stop the watch right before you die they’ll know exactly when you died
@nonz3r0 u can say the same about nearly all products starting with an “i” !!!
3000, billion for the wars !! damn the warmongers.
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Here’s a visualization. Huge block labeled “Bullshit from David McCandles” Small block labeled “Amount of FUCK I give!”
War & Fraud – insanity for all to see
Wait a minute! Did this guy just say (at about 16:00) that because he is a journalist that he “naturally” leans to the left of the political spectrum?