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The Cost of Snail Mail Yesterday’s chart from the Economist about the cost of sending snail mail caught my attention for two reasons: If I think about it — and since I saw the chart I started thinking about it — I’m still amazed that you can give some entity a physical object and they’ll deliver it pretty much anywhere for 45 cents (in the US). Then again, the US Postal Service loses $25 million per day. A few weeks ago, I sent my first physical letter in about as long as I can remember. I’d received an invoice for two cents so put three pennies in an envelope with a note telling them to keep the change. Image: Cost of Sending a Standard-Sized Letter Domestically, via the Economist.

The Cost of Snail Mail

Yesterday’s chart from the Economist about the cost of sending snail mail caught my attention for two reasons:

  • If I think about it — and since I saw the chart I started thinking about it — I’m still amazed that you can give some entity a physical object and they’ll deliver it pretty much anywhere for 45 cents (in the US). Then again, the US Postal Service loses $25 million per day.
  • A few weeks ago, I sent my first physical letter in about as long as I can remember. I’d received an invoice for two cents so put three pennies in an envelope with a note telling them to keep the change.

Image: Cost of Sending a Standard-Sized Letter Domestically, via the Economist.

A feature length movie is an amazing dataset. You just need to know how to look at it, and you need the right tools.

For his senior project at the Royal Academy of Arts, Den Haag, Frederic Brodbeck created his own software programs that dissembled video files into their constituent parts. In this way he was able to identify elements such as video, audio, subtitles, as well as gathering information average shot length, motion measuring, color palettes and more. 

cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.

Brilliant, my fine friend. Brilliant.

h/t Motionographer

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A snazzy explainer video produced by Column 5 Media about the purpose and value of infographics, where data meets design. Spotting trends in data is much easier with the use of color, size and orientation. In this way the human eye is capable of processing very complex stories told visually within 250 milliseconds. That is, if infographics are done well. 

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The Connected States of America shows the invisible ties that bind Americans based on where they live, and where they are calling.

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The storytelling power of infographics has hit hardtop with a new, customizable stencil set from artist Golan Levin. The sprayable, laser-cut setup allows users the combine thought-provoking text and an accompanying pie chart. What they may lack as far as the intricacy and richness of computer-generated infographics, these stencils more than make up for it with the immediacy and intensity of graffiti art. 

The storytelling power of infographics has hit hardtop with a new, customizable stencil set from artist Golan Levin. The sprayable, laser-cut setup allows users the combine thought-provoking text and an accompanying pie chart.

What they may lack as far as the intricacy and richness of computer-generated infographics, these stencils more than make up for it with the immediacy and intensity of graffiti art. 

GOOD

futuramb: Congress Members Produce 30% Fewer Tweets After Weinergate [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Congress Members Produce 30% Fewer Tweets After Weinergate [INFOGRAPHIC]

emergentfutures: CHART OF THE DAY: Proof The iPad Is Affecting Consumer PC Sales Microsoft’s consumer PC sales growth has pretty much never declined. Not even when Microsoft released Vista. Not even when the economy went in the toilet. But suddenly, the growth of sales is about to go negative, says Citi analyst Walter Pritchard Full Story: Business Insider

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CHART OF THE DAY: Proof The iPad Is Affecting Consumer PC Sales

Microsoft’s consumer PC sales growth has pretty much never declined. Not even when Microsoft released Vista. Not even when the economy went in the toilet.

But suddenly, the growth of sales is about to go negative, says Citi analyst Walter Pritchard



Full Story: Business Insider
Did you know a political conservative is more likely to prefer McDonald’s french fries than his liberal counterpart? He’s also more likely to qualify Chinese takeout as “exotic ethnic food.” On the other hand, self-identified left-leaners are more likely to drink wine with meals at home (conservatives go for juice or milk), and they’re also more likely than conservatives to enjoy beer drinking. Via Mashable

Did you know a political conservative is more likely to prefer McDonald’s french fries than his liberal counterpart? He’s also more likely to qualify Chinese takeout as “exotic ethnic food.”

On the other hand, self-identified left-leaners are more likely to drink wine with meals at home (conservatives go for juice or milk), and they’re also more likely than conservatives to enjoy beer drinking.

Via Mashable

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krochmal: (via 16 Experts Answer, “What makes a great infographic?” — It’s All About Revenue) “I think a great infographic is an imbalanced equation: the amount of information conveyed is disproportionate to the time it takes the viewer to process it.”  Agreed, the longer a graphic can hold the reader’s attention, the better the story. 

krochmal:

(via 16 Experts Answer, “What makes a great infographic?” — It’s All About Revenue)

“I think a great infographic is an imbalanced equation: the amount of information conveyed is disproportionate to the time it takes the viewer to process it.” 

Agreed, the longer a graphic can hold the reader’s attention, the better the story. 

The best thing to come out of the decline of print and legacy media—thus far—has been a torrent of cool infographics. Online customer service provider GetSatisfaction takes a stab at the ongoing topic of struggling publishers and their bleeding ledgers, with this chart. 

The best thing to come out of the decline of print and legacy media—thus far—has been a torrent of cool infographics. Online customer service provider GetSatisfaction takes a stab at the ongoing topic of struggling publishers and their bleeding ledgers, with this chart. 

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justinellis: Lovely AND handy. Behold this period table of threats to our existence, from “collapse of causality” to “genetic modification,” “pandemic” and “animal flatulence”) Get your copy of A is for Armageddon.  Or, you know, be unprepared for the End of Days. Which, is like next week, right? (Which, coincidentally, is my mother’s birthday. Wait, does that make me…OH MY GOD.) 

justinellis:

Lovely AND handy. Behold this period table of threats to our existence, from “collapse of causality” to “genetic modification,” “pandemic” and “animal flatulence”) Get your copy of A is for Armageddon. 

Or, you know, be unprepared for the End of Days. Which, is like next week, right? (Which, coincidentally, is my mother’s birthday. Wait, does that make me…OH MY GOD.) 

Who Pays Teachers Best for their Time? Hours primary school teachers spend working on the left. Teachers salary after 15 years of experience / GDP per capita on the right The biggie version of this infographic also includes: how much teachers around the world make (Luxembourgh tops), average class size (Mexico tops… or bottoms if you will) and salary levels vs student achievement (Finland tops). 

Who Pays Teachers Best for their Time?

Hours primary school teachers spend working on the left.

Teachers salary after 15 years of experience / GDP per capita on the right

The biggie version of this infographic also includes: how much teachers around the world make (Luxembourgh tops), average class size (Mexico tops… or bottoms if you will) and salary levels vs student achievement (Finland tops). 

Search engine optimization matters. 

Search engine optimization matters. 

stoweboyd: Map of a tweet.

stoweboyd:

Map of a tweet.