Information About Information

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Customer Service Statistics [INFOGRAPHIC] | Penn Olson

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From Datavisualization.ch: In the current financial climate, the FTSE 100 is regularly in the media, and is the most widely used indicator of economic prosperity in the United Kingdom. Despite this, many of us have no idea what it is, why it is important, or how it is useful. In response to this, Jeremy Christopher developed these three A1 information visualizations to explain the history, worth, and importance of the FTSE 100 on a basic level in order to build a simple knowledge base of the index.

The work “A 26 Year History” visualizes the base rate (first value of the index) and the index’s value over the 26 year period. It also shows how the number of businesses form each of the 10 industry sectors has changed and developed over time.

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FTSE 100 – A 26 Year History (by Jeremy Christopher)

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The Dream Job Project: Part 1, Part 2

This is not quite “information about information” yet, but having stumbled across Michael Erard’s Dream Job Project and reading what he has set out to do and how he’s going about doing it, I cannot wait to see the final results and the tool he comes up with.

From Erard’s post: Last April, in a piece on these pages, I solicited comments from people about what they aspire to in the way of work, whether those aspirations were for a “dream job,” the next stage in one’s professional life, or a first stepping stone to something different. My thinking on this originated with the notion that aspirations offered by the culture aren’t necessarily supported by the economy, and that one possible response was to design those aspirations. Before you can design, you have to have a 360º view of the structure of the work. With that, you could build an aspiration design tool, a dashboard of options and choices, something to help you measure where you are and where you want to be.

Infographic of the Day: Financial Regulation Explained | Co.Design

Remember when the bank meltdown happened and we had to bail out Wall Street? We were so angry! But a funny thing happened on the way to financial reform: Mainstream media started covering the political fights rather than the substance. And when the bill finally passed earlier this week, it did so with a whimper. But passed it did—and few people have really explained in layman’s terms what’s at stake.

This series of infographics for The Washington Post, created by Brady Dennis and Alberto Cuadra, is the best attempt we’ve seen so far. This isn’t exactly a thing of beauty, but with a few handy dandy illustrations, the series illustrates the reasoning behind each of the five planks to financial reform contained in the recent bill.

Of course, there’s still room to debate whether or not the new law, signed today by President Obama, is strong enough to bend the system—after all, Wall Street has always proven to be pretty adept at circumventing whatever regulations have been placed upon them, and massive compromises were required to get the bill through the Senate.

But still, the infographics here are public-service journalism at its best. Check out the series here.

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Column Five Media – Mint Infographic: Who Owns America’s Debt?

Esquire Infographic: What The U.S. Government Owns

J + N Anniversary - The most awesome anniversary gift ever.

This single printed book was created to commemorate the one year wedding anniversary of Jerome and Nicole Daksiewicz. The first year anniversary traditionally being Paper - a book was appropriate.
The book highlights major and minor events during the couple’s first year of marriage, further graphically representing the events within a “Lover’s Scale”, illustrating the events seen as most evolving their relationship. A depiction of all events within the scale is visualized in a calendar showing all days of the year. The calendar allows the viewer to quickly see the most “romantic” months.
World events occurring from October 4, 2008 to October 4, 2009 were represented as well as major events that have taken place on the fourth of October throughout history.

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Who Are the Millennials? / Flowtown (@flowtown)

What Does 184 Million Gallons of Oil Look Like? - CNBC

Pretty weak, CNBC. Surely you can do better than that?

Column Five Media – Multiple Identities

Mint Infographic: The Coffee Economy Awakes

365 days // Stop Motion on the Behance Network

helping people in recapping past events of Singapore in the year 2009