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From the Doghouse Diaries. Smart dog. My cat on the other hand, still has some learning to do. Every time he scratches the couch, he looks at me like he's expecting something. I yell at him, "Causation doesn't equal correlation!" He stares back blankly.
[Doghouse Diaries | Thanks, Seth]
Sunlight Foundation displays some key government numbers with Easter candy, because as you know, data is ten times more interesting when it's represented with Peeps and chocolate eggs. Happy Easter, all.
[Sunlight Foundation | Thanks, Nicko]
Don't you just hate it when you're pleasantly driving around in the city and you're suddenly enveloped by a giant pie chart in the road? Such a downer.
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It's xkcd on statistical significance. I need to stop eating all those green jelly beans.
I hear there's also a link between sunshine and lollipops.
John Martz, in collaboration with Koyama Press, pixelates 235 Star Trek characters in this limited edition print. This amuses me even though I've never been a Star Trek fan. Must be those episodes of Next Generation I watched after school because there was nothing else on. Always had a soft spot for that Data fellow.
[Trexels via Boing Boing]
From Maira Kalman's And the Pursuit of Happiness, this is just too good. It appears that there is in fact enough minutes in the day to get stuff done. What's your daily schedule?
[New York Times via swissmiss]
There are no words. More tips on winning in the world found here.
Along the same lines of the happiness flowchart, this graphic by Moritz Resl shows a simplified life cycle between happy and sad. Let's not forget though that sometimes doing stuff you like leads to sad, and more importantly, doing stuff you don't like can lead to happy. Have a nice weekend!
[Moritz Resl via swissmiss]
I got a chuckle out of this one. By Brandon Schaefer. Check out the full-sized version here.
Here are some links for you to accompany your bag of chips, bowl of chili, and plate of wings as you wate for the Super Bowl to start.
Super Bowl FanMap — Who are people picking to win the big game in your area? ESRI is taking votes and mapping them. Packers are far ahead, leading 64 percent to 36. [via]
Where the Streets Have Your Name — See where there are streets named after you. Yeah, you.
d8taplex — A super alpha version of something that looks like a data search engine with graphs.
Top-spending cities for personal care — Active north and sedentary south?
What day is it? Flowchart Friday of course. Old but new to me. Based on the Total Eclipse of the Heart flowchart, this one takes on Hey Jude. Don't get stuck on an infinite loop of na na na na na na na na na...
[Love All This via Laughing Squid | Thanks, John]
Focus too hard on individual points, and ignore what's around, and you too might fall in the metaphorical fountain. Yes, this is my excuse for posting this hilarious video, and I'm sticking to it.
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Designer Jessica Hische gets her flowchart on to help you decide whether you should work on that project for free. In short, if the client is not your mom or a friend you owe big, they better pay up. Love the blunt honesty from Hische, who I'm sure gets all sorts of odd offers. See full flowchart here.
[Jessica Hische via @MacDivaONA]
Nick Foster has some fun with t-shirt classification after cleaning out his closet:
I have a T-shirt problem: after years of buying them, my house is now full. Whilst recently trying to tidy up the situation I realised that I was subconsciously categorising them.
Ten types are identified, although half of my shirts probably belong in the above three. I'm a bum. But I have golden voice.
[sleepinginmyhead via kottke]
For the Google Demo Slam, three animators Tu+, Namroc, and Metcalf Anything put together an animation completely in Google Docs. Three days, 450 slides, and they got the video below. A tool might be limited, but you can still get a lot done with a little bit of imagination.
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xkcd geekdom for your slow Monday afternoon. Can you imagine being with someone who doesn't label axes? Outrageous. [xkcd]
Something for you leading into the Thanksgiving weekend. Enjoy this short video (below) by Amy Thornley, which she made for smile for london. It was animated frame-by-frame in Excel. I look forward to when someone makes this an actual game. That way you could play it at the office, and it would look like you're working when you pause it.
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How well do you know your logos and brands? Or more importantly, how memorable are company logos that you don't even need to see the whole thing to recognize where it's from? Graham of ImJustCreative simplifies logos into basic shapes. The above is Google. That one's easy. It's got the shape. It's got the color. Can you guess the rest?
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I'm not sure you made the static version above, but here is an equivalently amusing animated version below. The Dark Knight likes to keep things fresh. [CollegeHumor]
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FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better — mainly through data visualization. More...
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