Posts Tagged Telling Stories with Data
Data on Doggy Years
Posted by in Interactive Data on January 24, 2011
I always heard the 1:7 ratio for converting dog years into human years. According to the Dog Food Corner it’s not that simple, because not all dogs are created equal.
The site lists a bunch of variables – such as gender, breed, and living conditions – that affect a dog’s lifespan and comparability to the human timetable.
How much your dog weights also has a lot to do with it. Here is the dog to human year conversion table they provide:
From this I whipped up the following interactive tool in Adobe Flex to help you determine just when your dog will (or did) get older than you. Just enter a few stats about yourself and the chart will adjust to show you when your age crosses your dogs age.
For instance, my dog was born in 2009. I was born in 1981. My dog, Dr. Elsa Schneider, weights 45 pounds. According to the data above, it is actually this year that I’ll be the closest to my dog after her actual age is adjusted to human years. How does your experience compare?
Visualizing a Trillion Dollars
Posted by in Data Visualization on January 21, 2011
Via Greg Mankiw I came across this cool way to wrap your head around how much a trillion dollars really is. I used it in class last week to demonstrate the magnitude of US GDP, which is around $15 trillion.
One TRILLION dollars… What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I’d take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.
The author takes you from $100….
to a $1 million dollars….
and finally to $1 trillion dollars…..
Check out the entire post here
Infographics Galore
Posted by in Infographics on January 11, 2011
Infographics seemingly popped up everywhere in 2010 and Information is Beautiful linked to a handful earlier today. My favorites were the two that I would consider the least infographicy of the group.
1. So you still think the Internet is free
Neat, dynamic story-telling
Cool interactive maps
