We need to learn quickly to keep up with the massive change around us so we don't get run over. We need to outrun change.
how to present information – good stretching ideas on how to communicate other than with just text
Curious how a fracking well is drilled?
I’ve been wondering about a few things. Like how to drill horizontally, how to break open the dense rock, and how to prevent leakage.
Superb animated video from Voyager Oil & Gas answers a lot of my questions:
Continue reading “Animated explanation of hydraulic fracturing”
(cross-post from my other blog, Nonprofit Update.)
Check out these time-lapsed maps showing the growth of a retail chain from Flowing Data. Great visualization of the speed and location of new stores. Also shows the diffusion across the country.
Lets you see the data of Walmart from 1 store in 1962 to 4,393 in 2010.
Check out these visuals:
Continue reading “Creative Visualization – mapping the growth of retail stores”
As usual, Dr. Mark Perry has the best graphs.
In Newspaper Ad Revenues Fall to 60-Yr. Low in 2011, he graphs advertising revenue for newspapers on an inflation adjusted basis from 1950 through 2010 (actual) with projection for 2011 through third quarter.
Wow. So that is what it looks like for an entire industry to fall off a cliff.
John Bredehoft has a creative two-part post comparing technology in 2011 and 1981. Focus is on the change in portability – the ease of getting news anywhere and being able to reach someone anywhere.
What if modern portability existed, or didn’t exist, 30 years ago?
More on changes in portability
Communication then:
Continue reading “A field trip from August 2011 to August 1981 and back”
(cross-post from Attestation Update)
A graph of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia shows the devastating losses suffered during the advance on Moscow and retreat. It is the best illustration I’ve seen of creatively presenting a complex body of information. Dare I say it is a beautiful graph? Why is this of interest to us? It shows a powerful way to communicate statistical data.
You can see the graph here at Cartographia. Click on the map to enlarge.
One sentence of explanation allows you to interpret the entire view – Continue reading “Creative visualization – astounding use of a map to show statistical data”
(cross-post from Attestation Update)
I’ve been interested lately in creative ways to show data. We accountants are great at absorbing a lot of numbers and finding the patterns. Other people who don’t have our mind-set can not see what we see. We need to find new ways to explain things.
How would you summarize the location and intensity of wars over the last several centuries? One of my favorite historians would do that verbally over the course of a full-length book or a dozen columns. (And I’d love every word of it too!)
Jordi Colomer has done so in a 5 minute video:
Continue reading “Creative visualizations-military history illustration”