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21st February 2011

Link reblogged from Blue Lines Revisited with 72 notes

Tom Morris: Infographics are porn without the happy ending →

tomewing:

tommorrisdotorg:

Now, to show the complete superfluousness of infographics, I have expressed the same information in another format, namely plain text (Internet MIME type: text/plain) encoded in ASCII.

Here it is:

The iPad has been out a year.

Analysts thought it would sell 3.3 million units. It sold 14.8 million.

Oppenheimer & Co. predicts tablet shipments will grow from 15.1 million in 2011 to 115 million in 2014.

Apple has 90% of the market share.

Five simple sentences that almost anybody could understand. The wc utility on my computer tells me it is 245 bytes.

These 245 bytes of English text/plain transmits exactly the same amount of information as the 200,939 byte JPEG image and does so without making me want to kick someone in the dick.

V amusing. I suspect the seemingly far greater willingness of ppl to spread infographics means they’re here to stay tho.

Hate list: 1. hyperrealistic paintings 2. things that are not food made out of food 3. infographics

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Source: tommorrisdotorg

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    So infographics are like soft-core pornography then? But who says graphs can’t be sexy? It’s only when ‘ic’ and an...
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    To be fair, that’s a really bad infographic. Compare that to this poster that Edward Tufte cites as the best statistical...
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    Hate list: 1. hyperrealistic paintings 2. things that are not food made out of food 3. infographics
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    seemingly far greater willingness...means they’re here
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