Information about information

barsandpies:

Internet Pastime by Age Group

infoneer-pulse:

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mary1in:

Welcome to Washington, D.C. (District of Careers) | Fast Company

catharsis:

Unit Interactive’s 2009 Annual Report

Beautiful infographics, all done in HTML/CSS/JS.

rachelmercer:

The State of the Internet, click thru for amazing data vis.

“Take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. We can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However, their age, educational background and level of income may influence how much time they spend online. Pictured is a small part of the much larger infographic.”

barsandpies:

infoneer-pulse:

‘Miss Average College Girl,’ 1941

Back in 1941, the “average college girl” spent $240.33 on clothes and spent 75 percent of her waking hours in a sweater-skirt ensemble, according to a survey in the inaugural issue of Design for Living: The Magazine for Young Moderns. Also of note, women at the University of Texas had almost as many boyfriends as they had evening dresses.

» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)

carynkesler:

infographic i’m working on for my contemporary issues class focusing on the california budget crisis. i’m going to add some more levels of information about bipartisanship in each state and relative success over time, but um, this is what i have for now and i haven’t posted anything in forever.

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couch:

Just did everyone’s taxes for the past 70 years →

roomthily:

Data Underload #7 – No Worries | FlowingData

ecotone:

Marcin Kuczynski

feltron:

davidrumsey.com

(via http://roomthily.tumblr.com/)

Infographic: Paper Airplane Contest Results (via maxticket)

Infographic: Scotty Contemplates Suicide (via maxticket)

bastienlabelle:

Color Identifying System For The Color Blind

feltron:

http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2009_annual_report/

http://feltron.com/shop.html

Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience. 

I kept track only of who I gave survey invitations to, the number of the card and where it was given. The surveys answers were submitted via text forms, allowing the respondee to write whatever they desired, and leaving the task of making comparisons between the data up to me. I have used only this information to create the report, however accurate it may be. I have strived to sort and collate the data in a clinical and repeatable manner that could be reproduced by someone looking for the same stories I have selected.

The data set itself was messy and overwhelming, and filled with enough information for several more reports. There are inherent shortcomings (like the unrepresentative amount of water recorded), and endearing strong suits (like the exploration of mood). I used several tools to make this task a more manageable, including Processing, which allowed me to map and explore alternate layouts much more quickly than previously, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

The printed edition of the report is being letterpressed by Swayspace in Brooklyn, New York. It is 16 pages and printed using 4 colors on 80 lb. French Durotone cover stock, and will be individually numbered, signed and mailed in March.