Stories (in Blue): Volume One
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More info can be found at makeovermonday. Andy and Eva curated examples from this weekly project as the basis for their book.
Many learnings and lessons are recounted, from the habits of a good data analyst to working with incomplete data to trying new things. If you analyze and visualize data—or would like to—this is a book you will likely want to have on your shelf. As a bonus, data from the weekly challenges that feed the visuals profiled in the book are all available for download. This is a great resource if you ever find yourself in need of data to visualize or if you want to recreate or further improve upon any of the examples in the book. MakeoverMonday can be purchased on Amazon.
They take up a lot of ink, simply due to the typical amount of filled in color and limited white space. They are prone to some shared issues with stacked bars: Finally, I often find it unclear whether the series in the stack are literally stacked on top of each other each graphing from the bottom of the given segment to the top , or if they overlap each graphed from x-axis upwards. This is from a recent client makeover, where I iterated through a number of different views in order to both get a better understanding of the main point I wanted to make as well as identify an effective visual that would help me do so.
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The team in this case was plotting the capital budget outlook over time across five categories of spend. The original graph looked similar to the following:. There are a number of things that are not ideal about this initial view. When I look at the x-axis, it starts to become clear that some of this data has already happened, while other dates are in the future reflecting some sort of forecast or plan.
I can do this in a couple of ways: The following graph incorporates these changes:. If you are analyzing data, you likely know it better than anyone else. This means you are in a unique position to drive value based on that data.
The Blue Moon Day encompasses the stories of five men who are en route to discover their purpose in life. She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. Sep 23, Limor Moyal rated it it was amazing Shelves: The plain flowing simple yet captivating narrating style of the events in each story made this book a gripping and interesting fast read I must say. I walked away from this collection having a better understanding of the Irish landscape and could visualize the places I hadn't visited in person, but she wrote them in ways that made me feel they were familiar to me. Keegan's writing is stripped down, Hemingwayesque, and yet, thankfully, the bare prose does not rest on a scaffold of hard machismo. I think I will read it every year.
We see the budget for three major projects decreasing markedly from to , and then decreasing slowly over time:. There is also decreasing trend for other existing projects, which look to be at zero by That leaves two final pieces: There might be something interesting here.
While the three data series up to this point have been stacked one on top of the other, that changes when we get to the existing allowance. The existing allowance is actually the first three data series combined, plus a small amount in excess of that—we only see this latter bit graphed separately:. The final series, proposed allowance, is all of this together, plus the incremental part that is shown explicitly with the top blue series currently:.
It will be easier to focus on the difference between the bars in the preceding view if we turn them into lines:. At this point, I decided to play with the design a bit and put words on the graph to make what we are looking at clear:.
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Next, if we want to pull the breakdown of the original first three data series back in, I can do that with a stacked area graph:. I can still see the 3 major projects and other existing projects decreasing over time, as well as the slight increase in new projects, so that detail from the original view is preserved but kept from being distracting by graphing it all in the same relatively muted color and labeling directly. I focus on the thing that is different: Looks like we need some additional budget!
But apart from that, the more things change…. For one thing, the top SERPs would look a lot different. At traditional encyclopedias, the staff uses the best information from reputable sources, overseen by editors who are subject matter experts with multi-decade careers or advanced degrees in their subjects. Wikipedia works on a mish-mash of social styles.
Most importantly, the mix of work and management styles is there to facilitate getting things done: Its creator, Linus Torvalds, an American-Finnish software engineer, wrote the original 10, lines of code for the system; it now stands at almost 22 million lines of code , created and added by more than 5, individuals representing nearly corporations.
Linux is an example of the web building itself, the inspiration for a million overheated conversations about self-assembling systems. I do not have a five-year plan.
Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (and Other Quirky Web Origin Stories)
This is the kind of person I am. Linux grew out of the opportunity for thousands of people, all over the world, to work on something that fixed their potholes — and helped others fix theirs at the same time. Amazon, Facebook, eBay and others collaborate to improve Linux, which they then use to compete with each other. Blogging is one of the main things the internet is for. Reading and publishing blogs takes up a pretty big chunk of the internet.
Check out how the audience for blogs has grown since These two images, from World of Meters actually, from their blog were taken ten seconds apart:. The first blog to call itself a blog was Robot Wisdom, run by Jorn Barger. Picture a barebones, text-only forum. That was Usenet, long before there was broadband or even domain names. After falling in with Usenet, Barger fell out with some Usenetters.
The Kate Bush fan forum was a particular source of friction. So he looked for a place where he could write, communicate and comment on his own terms. He came up with a webpage that would link out — to other pages on the same site, or to other sites. New entries would appear at the top, so scrolling down meant going backward in time and the freshest content was always served first.
The factors that would make blogs the key medium of our time were already in place early on. But the innovation that made the difference was based on information about visitor behavior: Slate, Urban Desires and more were there too.
The editors of Suck , a brash satirical magazine site that also pioneered the use of hypertext as emphasis or commentary , analysed the server logs of Hotwired , the website of Wired magazine, to see how visitors behaved on the site. What they found was that people only came to the site when there was something new to see. With the restraints of physical publishing gone, reasoned editor-founders Carl Steadman and Joey Anuff, there was no reason not to publish constantly, every weekday.
And after they started doing it, everybody else joined in. The blog as we know it was fully formed. Instead, people wanted an operating system that ran light and fast, or more buyers for their computer business, or somewhere to talk about Kate Bush, so they made it happen.
And the web itself allowed those things to spread. You can start that conversation about self-assembling systems now, if you like. Richard Bayston creates copy and content at RBCopywriting. Please join the conversation! We like long and thoughtful communication.
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