Benjamin Lee at the Guardian didn't like the new Tom Hardy movie Legend much (link). His verdict in brief: The legend must live on but Legend certainly won't. Then, Lee saw this Legend ad (link): (Tip from Doeke W., long-time...
Benjamin Lee at the Guardian didn't like the new Tom Hardy movie Legend much (link). His verdict in brief: The legend must live on but Legend certainly won't. Then, Lee saw this Legend ad (link): (Tip from Doeke W., long-time...
On my sister blog last week, I wrote about how to screw up a column chart. The chart designer apparently wanted to explore whether Rotten Tomato Scores are correlated with box office success, and whether the running time of a movie is correlated with box office success. In either case, the set of movies is a small one, those directed by Chris Nolan. Here is a better view of the…
Catching up on some older submissions. Reader Nicholas S. saw this mind-boggling chart about Chris Nolan movies when Interstellar came out: This chart was part of an article by Vulture (link). It may be the first time I see not...
If your chart is titled "The Most Popular TV Show Set in Every State," what would you expect the data to look like? You'd think the list would be dominated by the hit shows like The Walking Dead and Downton...
There was a lively, fun discussion after my talk yesterday night in New York. For those who couldn't attend, let me review some of the conversation. Here you go: Q: Tell us more about the chapter in Numbersense titled "Are They New Jobs When No One Can Apply?" Related to economic data, can you talk about the idea that we still need to import foreign workers because there aren't enough…
When you hear about Big Data, you almost always hear about the supply side: Behold the data in un-pronounceable units of bytes! Admire the new science inspired by all the data! Missing from this narrative is the consumption side. A direct consequence of Big Data will be the explosion of data analyses—there will be more people producing more data analyses more quickly. This will be a world of confusing and…
There is some banter on Twitter about a chart that appeared in The Atlantic on "Pixar's Sad Decline--in One Chart". (@thewhyaxis, @jschwabish, @tealtan). Link to article *** It's a bit horrible but not the worst chart ever. The most offensive...
Andrew Sullivan links to Maureen O'Connor (link) who picked up on Netflix's recent advertising pitch mischievously titled "Netflix adultery". Andrew highlighted this statistical result, with Maureen's interpretation, supposedly sourced from Netflix although I wasn't able to find the actual study. (I added the emphasis.) In a study of 2000 American adults, 12 percent confessed to watching ahead on TV shows they were supposed to save to watch with their partners.…
