Comments on: Suicides by Location on the Golden Gate Bridge

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Semantic shite & Data Analytics « linknews — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:22:32 +0000

[...] suicides by location on golden gate bridge. very cool. by infographics.Â suicide box that tracks vertical movements [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:28:57 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
(WARNING: This cannot be unseen))
I saw this movie when it first came out. Being a long time resident of SF makes it more difficult because eventually you know someone that has made “the jump”.
Last year a friend of mine jumped 3 weeks after his mother passed away. He had called a few friends the night before to see how they were and to tell them he loved them, then disappeared until found after the fact days later. So sad, I hope it eased his pain like he intended. Depression is not something that is untreatable. Things are certainly out of our control but our mind can go it’s own what sometimes and that’s when a professional should be brought into the mix for a better more clear perspective. Be kind to yourself. XOXO
The peninsula hooks around and that’s the way this graph is laid out. What your eye sees as being south, is in fact east looking back towards the city. I know a couple posters here tried to explain it but I was even confused by their explanations.

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By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:32:09 +0000

that’s gotta be the weirdest thread ever on infosthetics

By: infosthetics

infosthetics — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:30:19 +0000

Great courage to post it again! After I blogged it on infosthetics.com, this post somehow ended up quite high in Google search results with specific search terms, and acquired +106 comments, of which some quite terrifying...

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:53:27 +0000

Junk Charts had a post about this graphic approx. 4 years ago: http://junkcharts.typepad.com/.....tally.html

By: smallerdemon

smallerdemon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:15:56 +0000

Both sides have pedestrian walkways http://sanfrancisco.about.com/.....ridg_3.htm

The east side faces the city. The east side is also easier to get to. The south end of the bridge on the east side is the main entrance for tourists and where buses and cabs drop people off.

The middle of the span is the best view of the city.

I believe Nathan is right. East / West makes more sense if you live here (west facing the ocean and east facing the city). It lends unsubstantiated credence about getting a view of the city has one jumps from the bridge, but technically that side of the bridge is just easier to get to from cab or bus. I would almost bet money that those jumping from the west side of the bridge are mostly locals (and it is almost ENTIRELY locals that jump from the Bay Bridge). I suspect the west side is probably monitored with slightly less diligence than the east side. The halfway point might represent the “breaking point” too for those wandering out on the bridge. A sort of “Well, once I get there I’m going it or I’m not.” kind of thinking.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:50:17 +0000

see also Bureau of Inverse Technology’s Suicide Box:
http://www.bureauit.org/sbox/

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:07:03 +0000

my best bet is that it was mainly intended for an SF audience who might be used to referring to the east and west side of the bridge. just a hunch

By: pmarc

pmarc — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:30:45 +0000

The east/west arrows confuses me. I also wonder if previous commenter isn’t confused too.
I would prefer a more traditional NORTH arrow. Since this is a top view, I tend to read it as I would read a map.