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Showing posts with label charts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charts. Show all posts
Hell No
I can’t be the only person who sees a certain horned figure looming. You had one job, Graphics Department. One job.
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The Fourth Grows Weak
Kate Willaert, creator of a bunch of cool stuff over at her Uncool Artblog no matter what the name says, has designed an infographic charting IMDB user ratings and domestic theatrical gross (adjusted for inflation) across movie quadrilogies — film series that have produced at least four installments. The diminishing returns come as no surprise, although there are exceptions to that general rule. Film series sampled aren’t nearly as numerous as those used in BoxOfficeQuant’s sequel map, which I shared a few years ago, but of course even in our current cinematic climate there are plenty more franchises with just one or two follow-ups than three or more.
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Wise to the Wordle
For some time now I’ve been planning to add a Wordle graphic to the blog. The one below, set in a font called Enamel Brush, has at this writing just been slipped into the sidebar between my general and exhaustive lists of post labels.
Wordle is an online application created by Jonathan Feinberg. You enter a bunch of text into its box and it produces a nifty “word cloud” out of that, customizable in typeface, color, and (to an extent) layout, with the size of each word or phrase based on the frequency with which it appears in the source.
The bad news is that it doesn’t work quite as easily as I thought it was supposed to work.
After Math
A website called BoxOfficeQuant put together an intriguing graph last month. The Sequel Map charts Rotten Tomatoes’ average scores for various sequels against the films from whence they sprang. Forget Alien vs. Predator; this is Alien vs. Aliens.
The Sequel Map © 2011 Edmund Helmer.
You’ll find a clickable version of the graph in BOQ’s post. Hit it and you’re taken to a larger image; hit that image and it zooms in wherever your cursor is to the extent that you can actually read the movie names amidst the circles. If, as happened with me, the graph doesn’t quite register with you at first, all you have to do is realize that it’s been shifted 45° to make the dotted line horizontal — just cock your head to the right.
Board Now
Pie is a tradition of the season.
Screencap © 2009 Twentieth Century Television.
Okay, I know that’s actually a Venn diagram, not a pie chart, but it passes on account
of being laugh-out-loud, pause-the-video-to-catch-your-breath funny. It’s from How I Met Your Mother Episode 4.22, wherein Marshall develops an addiction to poster-board visual aids: “This is a pie chart describing my favorite bars. And this is a bar graph describing my favorite pies.” You’re welcome.
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