Tag Archives: Statistics

How Often Do Air Conditioners Fall Out of NYC Windows and Kill People?

By C.G. | Published: July 6, 2011

Timely piece since it’s going up to 91°F today. Ever since I started living in an urban environment (and had to install my own window air conditioner), I’ve wondered how likely a unit is to fall out and hurt someone. You certainly begin to wonder when you see some AC units propped up by bricks [...]

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The Great Debate: Over Or Under

By C.G. | Published: June 9, 2011

According to this infographic, half of America pays attention to the orientation of a roll of toilet paper; the other half are just plain weird. Also interesting, we spend 30 minutes a year looking for the end of the roll costing us $300m in productivity. Click the jump to see the whole infographic. Over Or [...]

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Remembering America’s Soldiers With Charts

By C.G. | Published: May 30, 2011

Mother Jones has a great post for Memorial Day. They’ve created a series of graphs showing the ultimate costs of war. From the char above to the somewhat optimistic chart below, they’ve covered everything – including deaths at the hands of pirates. The chart below indicated that, statistically speaking, war appears to be getting safer [...]

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A Week on Foursquare

By C.G. | Published: May 19, 2011

The WSJ has a really cool time-lapse visualization of Foursquare checkins for New York and San Francisco. You have to go to the full site for all the fantastic data it displays. It includes the number of checkins per hour, the heat map (like above), the top 80 categories by checkin, the number of venues [...]

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Cool Data Visualizations

By C.G. | Published: February 21, 2010

From Google Buzz, founder & CEO of Seesmic, Loic Le Meur, shared a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing the visualization of Twitter’s stream. Its a fascinating read just for the inferences one can get from the data. The article uses different trend analysis projects like Twitter Spectrum, TwitterVenn, and StreamGraphs to highlight comparisons between [...]

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