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Re: So You Need a Typeface (Julian Hansen)

Richa Sethia — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:37:38 -0000

Very good....
GenY Medium has recently come up with several stats on effectiveness of blogging in generating long term sales as well as some tips on blog writing. This has been presented graphically in the form of an infographic here: http://visual.ly/do-you-think-... you find this useful. Please feel free to share internally as you deem fit.

Re: Tea Facts (Steven Trotter)

Zephyr López Cervilla — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:26:40 -0000

"world’s tea consumed by a selection of countries"
It's not tea consumption but tea production. Could you believe that 20 million Sri Lankans would consume almost half as much as 1.3 billion Chinese (country of origin of the plant of tea and traditional producer)? And where are the near billion Arabs (heavy tea drinkers), the British, and all the other Westerners?

Also, 1.4 million pounds of tea per day can't possibly be 130 million pounds per year but 510 million pounds per year.

Finally, those red apples must be of the lowest quality ever produced, aged and highly oxidized. It isn't true that a glass of red wine contains as much antioxidants as 6 apples, but rather the other way around. Apples are better source of antioxidants such as procyanidins than red wine (the procyanidins are the most abundant antioxidants found in red wine):

"the procyanidin content of red wine, chocolate, cranberry
juice and four varieties of apples has been determined. On average,
chocolate and apples contained the largest procyanidin content per
serving (164.7 and 147.1 mg, respectively) compared with red wine and
cranberry juice (22.0 and 31.9 mg, respectively). However, the
procyanidin content varied greatly between apple samples (12.3–252.4
mg/serving) with the highest amounts on average observed for the Red
Delicious (207.7 mg/serving) and Granny Smith (183.3 mg/serving)
varieties and the lowest amounts in the Golden Delicious (92.5
mg/serving) and McIntosh (105.0 mg/serving) varieties."

Hammerstone JF et al. Procyanidin Content and Variation in Some Commonly Consumed Foods. J. Nutr. August 1, 2000 vol. 130 no. 8 pp. 2086S-2092S
http://jn.nutrition.org/conten...

Re: The Game of Life (Lifebroker)

Lifebroker — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:20:27 -0000

Thanks for this feedback on our infographic - really appreciate it!

Re: Horoscoped: Most Common Words in Star Sign Predictions (David McCandless, Matt Hancock & Thomas Winningham)

Tay Waegner — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:58:52 -0000

Although I don't believe in astrology, I don't find this supposed expose very convincing. So each astrological sign contains words like "love, feel, sure, and keep". These words are to general to be significant. How could you try to predict people's lives without using these words?

Re: The Growth of Walmart & Sam’s Club (Flowing Data)

Azdee — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:13:35 -0000

Good title for a horror movie: "Walmart: the Blob that Consumed America".

Re: So You Need a Typeface (Julian Hansen)

Robert Sharp — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:39:39 -0000

Thank you for the post. very interesting.

Re: Facebook vs Google Plus (Jason Delodovici)

Zach Mance — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:31:51 -0000

This is a terrible infographic please try again.

Re: Inception Infographics: Which is the Best Inception Infographic?

simonabramovitch — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:24:13 -0000

Thanks Jason! Very much appreciated. And thanks for being understanding about my criticism. If you've indeed checked out the rest of the blog, you've seen that I'm a pretty picky bastard about infographics, but I really do try to acknowledge merits when I see them, and yours did have its share. If you come up with more work, please feel free to send it to me via the contact form.

Re: Inception Infographics: Which is the Best Inception Infographic?

JasonFonceca — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:36:36 -0000

Fantastic post! Inception is brilliant and it encouraged and inspired many brilliant graphic designers to try their hand. I'm glad you were able to find value and appreciate the uniqueness of my info-graphic and I appreciate it's inclusion. (I'm the author of #6) Your comments regarding it sound like great ideas for improvement, if I were to re-make it :D

You rock, and I'll check out the rest of your blog.

Re: How Come Cheap Airlines Are So Cheap? (5W Graphics)

Keith Anderson — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:52:46 -0000

This graph is really very effective. It described very well that why cheap flights are so cheap. This graph breaks down the variety of areas where low-cost airlines have managed to save money and benefited the customers. Thanks for this informative graph.

Cheap Tickets

Re: Battle of the Business Cards (Printing Choice)

piercepola — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:40:30 -0000

I think your confused with the actual printing and colour separation and bleeding people to understand the actual printing shop, a copy shop.

business envelope printing

Re: Battle of the Business Cards (Printing Choice)

printing companies — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:07:09 -0000

I've seen infographics online and some are really great and some are not and I do agree with you that it has a potential to be so much more maybe in time and I do believe that its a great way to tell their story to investors as well as to their customer.

Re: What Is The Difference? (Metrobest)

simonabramovitch — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:45:50 -0000

Thanks for this suggestion, much appreciated. I'll check it out!

Re: What Is The Difference? (Metrobest)

Fritz Balcorta — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:32:09 -0000

A fascinating book about the importance of the human ability to run long distances is "The Greatest Race Never Seen". The theory is that it was this ability more than others that led to our ancestors surviving and while Neanderthals, (bigger, stronger, and with larger brains) became extinct.

Re: Lucid Dreaming (Oneironautics)

Manic-baby — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:14:43 -0000

I like the artwork style however I don't understand why the font size differs in the instructions.

Re: Historical Browser Statistics (Axiis)

Rami — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:29:31 -0000

Amazing - it DOES look like the Firefox logo. Is that what the creator was aiming for, I wonder? I assume the logo came first, and then this infograph?

Re: Inception Infographics: Which is the Best Inception Infographic?

simonabramovitch — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:50:39 -0000

Hey Neil, thanks for the comment! Honestly, the more time goes by, the
more I regret not putting you in the #3 spot. I like what's currently
there, but yours is more original and crispier. Really, fine job. I'd
love to see new work of yours in the future, so please feel free to send
it my way. Thanks again!

Re: Inception Infographics: Which is the Best Inception Infographic?

Neil Laws — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:14:22 -0000

Hi, Number 4 here, thanks for including me in your review. I had no idea there were so many competitors! Glad you liked it.

Re: Periodic Table of Professional Cycling (Cyclosm)

Kristine Serna — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:00:43 -0000

This periodic cycling table would really be of a great help to cycling enthusiasts. They will become more organize on their schedules. They will be able to have a lot of time in planning their cycling training.

Re: The Simpsons Voices

Louann — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:47:54 -0000

I knew Hank Azaria did some voices but I had NO idea how many voices some of the other actors did. This was very interesting for any Simpson fan.

Re: David McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization (TED)

Thebullshitbarometer — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:47:56 -0000

Great article. Evolving data sets particularly interest me. I posted a recent article about the visual representation of data. @ http://thebullshitbarometer.wo...

Re: How Long Will It Last? (Armin Reller & Tom Graedel)

Evia — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:28:06 -0000

I would love to see this graph enlarged so I could read it better. Can anyone guide me how to do this?

Re: How Long Will It Last? (Armin Reller & Tom Graedel)

Chuck — Wed, 11 May 2011 22:13:03 -0000

as @Emmitt Hollin said, it's awful to see the consumerist culture that the New Deal and other such legislation forced into the American mainstream. (ie "Save American, Buy More Stuff!") this is a dynamic preentation.

Re: Ebb and Flow of Movies (NY Times)

Tayna — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:59:39 -0000

Interesting pattern - it looks like mountains in a reflection of a lake. I guess that means the peaks and dips occur at the same times?

Re: The True Cost of Homeownership (Moolanomy)

Tayna Waegner — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:33:02 -0000

Last year I sold my house to move across the country and have been renting a house. My husband and I are trying to figure out this exact dilemma - is it better financially to rent or buy? As you say, this really didn't compare renting a house which is what we are doing.