Unfancily useful info viz
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oSkope many views are a nice, rich way to browse Amazon (for other engines it isn’t nearly as successful) but this simple diagram in particular — plotting book covers against price and sales rank— is genuinely useful. Shame there’s no option to choose your axes. How about price vs stars? Stars vs. length?
Apropos of trusty old Cartesian planes, ain’t it weird they weren’t with us 500 years ago? What could be more straightforward than a coordinate system?
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I personally love it when the coordinate system meets pop culture......saludos!
Hola!
How’s everything going up north? I just wanted to share something with you, I found this very cool graph from the NYT that shows how the primaries between Obama and Hillary went down taking into account different variables. I was amazed at the clarity and awesomeness to present the info but you might already be familiar with it… anyway, I thought of you, here’s the link: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/politics/20080603_MARGINS_GRAPHIC/margins.swfKeep enjoying SF!
Yo: :) How you to come up with the pop culture angle. Ah, you’d love SF man.
d:ego: Thanks for the link! I had stumbled on it and enjoyed it immensely, it’s very informative. I think, though, that it would be much more useful if all the graphs were displayed side by side instead of being buried under a click. They would be much more easily comparable this way.I also thought of you recently, Richard Florida has a wonderful new book on cities, on how place has become more not less important, talent more not less clustered, and he has this interesting stat: “More than half of all fashion designers work in New York. The New York region is also home to a quarter of all jobs for brokerage clerks…. Three-quarters of the nation’s entertainers and performers work in Los Angeles, as do 25 percent of agents...”
If SF is the city for me —and it is—, LA is the one for you, no? :)More matrix fun!