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Obama’s 2012 Budget Visualised: Defence Loses, Education Wins

Compared to the 2010 and 2011 editions, the 2012 edition of the Death and Taxes poster shows some surprises. The first one: military spending is down all across the board while education, transportation and renewable energy win.

October 17, 2011
News

Printing Infographics On Money Shows Reality Of Occupy Wall Street

There’s something going on with Occupy Wall Street — good, bad, monumental, anarchy, I don’t know — but there is a clear disparity between the 1 per cent and the 99 per cent, and the voice of the 99 per cent is slowly ringing louder. Here’s one way to get the 1 per cent to pay even more attention: taint their money.

October 4, 2011
Geek Out

Stop Already With The Stupid ‘Infographics’

Over the last year, the explosion of these abominations called “infographics” has gotten overwhelming. The number of design-deficient morons making these is so ridiculous that you can fill an island with them. I’d do that. And then nuke it.

September 20, 2011
Online

Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else In The Planet

Check out the gigantic volume of photos now stored in Facebook compared to Flickr, the Library of Congress and Instagram. I knew they were big, but I never imagined the difference could be so huge. 140 billion photos! It defies belief.

August 27, 2011
Uncategorized

Graphic Biographies Are Fun — Except For That Hitler Bastard

See if you can understand these famous characters bio-pictograms, from Darth Vader to Bruce Lee to Jesus, the Bible character. Like our friends at Data Visualization say: don’t take them too seriously.

August 23, 2011
Entertainment

Watch CD Sales Fall Off A Cliff In 30 Seconds

We all know CD sales have fallen like a drunken girl in heels on an ice rink. But this infographic from Digital Music News, with 30 years of data shown in 30 seconds, really hammers the point home.

August 18, 2011
Mobile

The Patent Cold Wars, Visualised

It’s one thing to say that everybody is suing everybody over mobile patents. It’s another entirely when you actually see the battle lines all drawn out for you, as Thomson Reuters has so painstakingly done here. Full melee below:

August 17, 2011
Geek Out

Android Users 12% More Likely To Own Pets, And Other Pointless Survey Findings

Normally we don’t like to give much credence to PR stunt surveys, but Hunch polled 15,000 people — FIFTEEN THOUSAND — and found some surprising results. Did you know that iPhoners eat rice bubbles, and Android-droids prefer Cheerios?

July 28, 2011
Mobile

History Of Android (And Telstra’s Race For More Android Phones)

Gizmodo AU

This great little infographic visualises Android’s story and version history dating all the way back to October 2003. It’s really worth a look. But what’s ironic, is that I came across it on Vodafone Australia’s blog today. I know Voda likes to say it “speaks Android”, but apparently it’s now Telstra that has the most Android devices…online at least.

July 27, 2011
Online

What Happens When On The Internet, Visualised

When is lady’s night on the internet? Wednesday. When do people break up? Friday, by a mile. What day sucks the most? Thursday, apparently! The internet has a rhythm, friends, and XKCD has laid it bare for all to see.

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