The Food Genius app combines food, restuarants and statistics. Read more: Crunching Numbers on Acqtaste.
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As a teaser for a larger project on diagrams, Jane Nisselson describes how they exist in the real world.
Diagrams are everywhere — from the established conventions of highway signs to the newly emerging visualizations appearing on social networking websites. Most people have a personal experience of diagrams whether drawing directions or figuring out how to operate a new computer. Yet very few people are familiar with how we read or construct diagrams.
This short film introduces the language of diagrams and their role in visual thinking and communication. As only a film can do, it reveals the vocabulary “in the wild” and in the context of making and using diagrams.
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Don’t know Nate Silver? (Wiki on Nate here). Want to know what the weird word sabermatrician means?
For those of you breath stats here is a pdf from the Treasury Department showing economic growth data.
There are lots of informative bits there that might help you feel better about voting.
from : Refute This, Republicans!
Pretty interesting that the economy generally does better under Democratic administrations.
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“Guess What Percentage Of American Children Are Living In Poverty. Seriously, Guess.”
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Really? Right above Romania? This is something America can be so proud of….NOT.
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