July 9, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
Click image to see a larger version
Holy crap! Check out this beautiful resume-as-infographic belonging to Michael Anderson, a designer, photographer, and illustrator from West Virginia. [via]
Hands-down the best resume I’ve ever laid eyes upon. Feel free to prove me wrong.
January 29, 2009 @ 11:11 am
This is interesting. Very Small Array has posted visual representations of Billboard’s Top 100 hits in 2008 which makes it very easy to digest information (especially when the information is in list form like it is on Billboard’s website). Anyway, it’s amazing how much pop music was pushed through the radio last year while almost every other genre took the back seat.
And judging by what’s playing now on the radio, it looks like 2009 is shaping up to be very similar. If you’re curious, VSA also put together graphs and charts for Pitchfork Media’s top 100 tracks of 2008. But honestly, it’s Pitchfork, so how accurate can this be except in representing the indie music out on the market?
October 15, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Want to see how far ahead or behind your preferred candidate for Presidency is? Look no further than the handy charts and graphs supplied by the New York Times. You can view graphs from national and state-wide polls from various sources (the one above is from NYT/CBS). It’s incredible how different some of these polls are, and I guess it all has to do with what types of questions are asked and who is asking them (and also to whom they are being asked).
All of the polls show McCain behind Obama in the polls, and analysts are saying that this is partially due to McCain’s recent negative personal attacks on Obama’s character. It turns out that most people, regardless of party-affiliation, don’t like it when you attack somebody’s personal character. And McCain is learning this first-hand as his numbers are sliding ever so gradually.
After several weeks in which the McCain campaign unleashed a series of strong political attacks on Mr. Obama, trying to tie him to a former 1960s radical, among other things, the poll found that more voters see Mr. McCain as waging a negative campaign than Mr. Obama. Six in 10 voters surveyed said that Mr. McCain had spent more time attacking Mr. Obama than explaining what he would do as president; by about the same number, voters said Mr. Obama was spending more of his time explaining than attacking.
Other reasons cited for the decline in polls for McCain is that some Republicans are not happy that he chose Sarah Palin as his VP running mate.
There’s the last and final Presidential debate tonight (hosted at Hofstra University in Long Island), and I’m hoping it doesn’t turn out as boring as the last town-hall styled one. Gosh, that town-hall was terrible.
October 10, 2008 @ 10:16 am
I was trying to put into words the other day why I love visual information so much, and well, now I don’t have to because this PBS song from SID The Science Kid sums it all up very well. [via]
