Posts Tagged ‘infographics’
February 11, 2010
SOURCE: SchuhleLewis.com.
I came across this great infographic on Good and Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Neither actually credited the designer, though. After a little googling, I found them via Fast Company. The designers at Schühle Lewis in the UK created it. There are 59 skulls in the image. Cliff Kuang at Fast Company added a little background to their data:
The health-care study cited in the graphic is concerned mainly with people who die simply because they’re not regularly monitoring their health. But the numbers of people who don’t die because they lack health care–and who take care of their health only when it’s too late, in emergency rooms–is surely much larger. That’s wildly inefficient. Emergency care is extravagantly expensive–and that in turn feeds the spiraling cost of medical care in the U.S.
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Tags: data, health, inequality, infographics, sociology, terrorism
January 12, 2010
I must have missed this post on Graphic Sociology over the holidays. Linking to a post by Philip Cohen on the Family Inequality blog, Graphic Sociology highlights why infographics can be misleading when we don’t give more data. Cohen does an excellent job challenging Wilcox’s assertion that the recession has been good for marriage rates by pulling back and showing the divorce rate over the last few decades. In that light, divorces have been trending downward for awhile and have nothing to do with the Great Recession.
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Tags: data, divorce, economics, families, infographics, philip cohen, sociology
October 21, 2009
In an analysis posted on Seed, psychologist Denis G. Pelli and graphic artist Charles Bigelow predict that around 2013 the world will have nearly universal authorship. Say what?
SOURCE: Seed
You can read about their methodology here. I just don’t see how their claim about universal authorship is possible, and it seems to assume that blogging, facebooking, and tweeting won’t plateau the same way that book production did in the nineteenth century. Here’s their explanation:
In our analysis, we considered an author’s text “published” if 100 or more people read it. (Reaching 100 people may seem inconsequential, but new-media messages are often re-broadcast by recipients, and then by their recipients, and so on. In this way, a message can “go viral,” reaching millions.) Extrapolation of the Twitter-author curve (the dashed line) predicts that every person will publish in 2013. That is the ceiling: 100 percent participation. Provided current growth continues, the prediction of imminence is robust. Increasing the stringency of the criterion for “publishing” from 100 to 1,000 readers would reduce new-media authorship tenfold, but merely delays the predicted 100 percent participation by a year under this model.
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Tags: infographics, literacy, social change, social media, sociology
