Archive for June, 2009
Winning Wimbledon: worth more than it used to be
The winners of the men’s and ladies’ singles finals at Wimbledon this year will each take home £850,000. That may seem relatively paltry next to Lewis Hamilton’s 5-year, £75 million deal with McLaren Mercedes, but it’s a decent wodge more than the £26,000 - in today’s money - awarded the victor in 1968. (The graph [...]
Guess the publication from the headline
Hello, I made a quick little application which shows some random headlines and you guess which publication they came from. It’s very rough so don’t get mad if it breaks. Comments appreciated.
http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/headliner
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Thanks to everyone who’s been using it. The code is now open source under the AGPL. It’s written in Ruby in Rails, although I [...]
Iranian election results - by region
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A vast pool of red, beating off an insistent green. The graph above - and map below - show the results of the disputed Iranian election by province. (Various western news organisations have begun translating the ‘official’ results as posted on the website of the Ministry [...]
Swine flu: a young person’s influenza
It’s often said that swine flu targets younger people - we wanted to demonstrate this neatly in graph. The above visualisation - produced courtesy of Many Eyes is the result of some careful mashing up disparate data. The US and Mexican data comes from the CDC and is correct to late May; the UK swine [...]
How Britain fell for digital television
When choice came, we changed channels and never looked back. That’s one way of interpreting the above graph, which shows TV audience share by channel over the past three decades. From their days as dual overlords commanding 90 per cent of the British TV audience between them, BBC1 and ITV have witnessed their shares shrink [...]
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