roomthily

courtenaybird:

The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph

• In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove or had access to electricity
• In 1915, <10% of families owned a car
• In 1930, <10% of families owned a refrigerator or clothes washer
• In 1945, <10% of families owned a clothes dryer or air-conditioning
• In 1960, <10% of families owned a dishwasher or color TV
• In 1975, <10% of families owned a microwave
• In 1990, <10% of families had a cell phone or access to the Internet

Today, at least 90% of the country has a stove, electricity, car, fridge, clothes washer, air-conditioning, color TV, microwave, and cell phone. 

learning curve for popular open source CMS platforms

via The CMS Myth (and as originally posted for MMORPGs)

chart graffiti on the sidewalk outside my office. 

datavis:

Nidecker Snowboard

prostheticknowledge:

Etsy Data Visualization Scarf

By Natalie B:

One of a kind data representation scarf based on Etsy data from August 2005 - October 2011. Left (red) graph represents Items Sold by Month. Right (dark gray) graph represents New Members by Month.

suspicious histogram

via Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

File sizes in the Linux 2.6.39.2 source tree

via Testing Benford’s Law

If a set of values were truly random, each leading digit would appear about 11% of the time, but Benford’s Law predicts a logarithmic distribution. It occurs so regularly that it is even used in fraudulent accounting detection.

courtenaybird:

The Lifespan of a Link - NYTimes.com

Pop quiz. How long do you think a fresh new link lasts online before people stop clicking on it? The answer: on average, just shy of 3 hours. If you ask the same question about a news-related link, the answer is a measly 5 minutes. 

prostheticknowledge:

Visual.ly Personal Twitter Infographic Generator

Just tried this out - some of it works ok, not so much others (maybe because of a Firefox update, not sure), but one of the things that is generates is this illustration of you, based on the contents of your tweets.

http://visual.ly/twitter

datavis:

The Temperature Of my Mind