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“insightful visuals” thread 1. Improvement vs perceived improvement https://t.co/gOCucvURFf
2. Meandering vs systematic exploration https://t.co/EfEZ0z7YHq
I think about these two pictures from @joulee a lot – very succinct and powerful way of describing how professional creatives have a more structured process, and how that isn't necessarily limiting – you actually get to try more things this way https://t.co/XUA8zUZBMb
3. Incremental vs Iterative https://t.co/HtzDsqzJuT
4. Video game level design https://t.co/vy42KA561N
5. Unrealistic vs realistic graffiti https://t.co/NNZolnmlaL
6. overcoming functional fixedness https://t.co/bKAXD7ywFM
7. How Steven Spielberg uses the background to introduce characters and action https://t.co/N4X4onK5bs
Spielberg does this incredibly well: he shows you a scene, typically between two actors, and then he subtly reveals another POV, usually via a third actor. It’s this elegant, smooth way of transitioning, and it feels very organic. Your attention is drawn naturally. Film genius https://t.co/ft2MxQzQ8T
8. A simple, accessible and fun list of logical fallacies https://t.co/R7yiUn9d44
10. The greatest Venn diagram humanity has yet conceived https://t.co/61uAXBfPFo
11. Wasn’t expecting that https://t.co/izo3Alju1I
12. (Harrison()Ford) https://t.co/eKpo71YoHH
13. Mortality rates https://t.co/PhzLn6RnTd
14. this is technically a screenshot of text rather than an actual image, but I'm putting it here anyway because I think it's worth revisiting https://t.co/xJrg9V5Pf9
15. survivorship bias The damaged portions of returning planes show locations where they can take a hit and still return home safely; those hit in other places do not survive. (Image shows hypothetical data.) https://t.co/TGdWYfSghH https://t.co/9bX9o1yWHr
16. patterns in PINs across entire population(s) https://t.co/pg2pBzPEhy
17. "X is overtaking Y" sometimes means "both X and Y and slowing down, and Y is slowing down faster than X" https://t.co/jQqoSbKjGB
I'm sensing a new wave of reports on cancer "overtaking" or "surpassing" heart disease as leading cause of death in the US. Here's your friendly reminder that this is a story about which cause of death is decreasing more quickly. https://t.co/93X8nG4EqA
18. GDP over time https://t.co/GOUtzmXVC2
19. Why it’s useful not just to know the statistical average, but the dispersion as well (especially when outliers have outsized consequences) https://t.co/d7Wxr6BoFb
20. generating -> analyzing -> synthesizing https://t.co/5cmDF5RYVt
21. the universal decay of collective memory and attention https://t.co/awJcNmjyDL
Collective memory: How does society forget? @crcandiav @cesifoti @NatureHumBehav study of patents, citations, songs, movies+sports biographies finds oral transmission dynamics+physical recording interact to produce a complex memory that decays in 2 phases https://t.co/zkAetCxwWY https://t.co/QI9CjGp0fW
22. Just watching this closely improves your trigonometric intuition. Several minds blown in the replies particularly re: tangents https://t.co/8KBnkT7tAg
23. Sex blog traffic on Christmas https://t.co/BhfS0hfzwx
24. Goals scored over time https://t.co/31vrIV2edW
NEW this weekend: I've updated my interactive #dataviz of the top scorers in 40 years of top level football, now including one Kylian Mbappé. See how his scoring rate compares to the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, Salah, Shearer, Klinsmann and 180 other greats https://t.co/hsUfVVWsR9 https://t.co/uQObgeJO5t
25. the effect of incentives https://t.co/Cgcsf3x5Z8
Colleges that have gotten the most praise for enrolling more Pell-eligible students appear to be doing so partly at the expense of other low-income students — specifically, those whose families make just a few too many dollars to qualify for Pell grants. https://t.co/vYzlgORJgx https://t.co/XrCFyPzeDo
26. the misunderstanding over the dress, visualized. it's all about perceived context https://t.co/1yljFJttlD
"Perceptual illusions show us in a clear and unambiguous way that we don’t directly perceive the world around us. Perceptual experience is a simulation—a mental model—that doesn’t always correspond to the reality it aims to depict." https://t.co/4E8xM6JFdR https://t.co/lNGGWwb3JA
27. exponential growth https://t.co/jxmP9bIs9c
28. the world as 100 people, over the past 200 years https://t.co/5OdGQRXh57
29. Brand value over time https://t.co/QzYqd6r7zr
30. intuitive design egs https://t.co/0pPUroAx6l
31. City populations over time, absolutely enchanting https://t.co/iwWd7DCbjF
New project: A “Bar Chart Race” animation showing the changing ranks of the 10 biggest cities in the world since 1500. Fascinating to watch giant cities vanish after falling in conquests, and amazing that three UK cities were in the top 8 in the late 1800s. https://t.co/KglMZbYobr
32. The Fence Paradox https://t.co/Ilvw6668Cs
33. If swans were depicted like dinosaurs https://t.co/YFY2XSALIj
34. Diagrammatic comparison between brains of different species https://t.co/oSAmb3XrHs
35. animated climate data from 1850 - present day https://t.co/05npVH7Q6h
36. What’s going on while your personalised targeted ad loads https://t.co/rn3SwHt4UM
37. Users over time https://t.co/LSz38QbzEv
38. The intersection of emails, todos and calendars https://t.co/rXisTqBAVu
39. how couples meet https://t.co/7TIrUqfONJ
40. employment rate over time https://t.co/h6qxknIf4W
41. grouping items by stage, not type https://t.co/AwEZrXXyhj
42. diagramming your argument https://t.co/Gnl6n9pyXm
43. I want this graph for everything https://t.co/jO4ipsJiZH
44. Moore's law https://t.co/udV584eZUI
45. perceptions of probability https://t.co/WHaME73lpH
46. how good is "good"? https://t.co/n34xKtweAN
47. Rule of law vs GDP/capita https://t.co/fRhwpgZsXr
48. marathon completion times https://t.co/tMILJAArdT
49. ATMs installed vs bank tellers employed https://t.co/SEL4u0cqsj
50. the trinket economy https://t.co/xdcBU6PWIc
51. the writing process https://t.co/6fTiJ7FYcz
52. from anarchy of genesis to dictatorship of shipping https://t.co/IrDZXIpamJ
@visakanv 53. https://t.co/ZL5dmw1QtI
53. forecasting is hard https://t.co/2B6MVOSuLW
I spent a humiliating amount of time learning how to make animated graphs, just to illustrate a fairly obvious point. “Forecasting s-curves is hard” My views on why carefully following daily figures is unlikely to provide insight. https://t.co/yrE71bUXVT https://t.co/BqQrxlhCmi
54. exploration vs refinement https://t.co/zHxTf3RF8c
55. pathfinding https://t.co/LlqriJDt5D
56. moral repugnance https://t.co/PVsZJvlHdr
What makes a market transaction morally repugnant? https://t.co/HccHBu8EBD New study assays this repugnance along five higher-order dimensions: moral outrage, need for regulation, incommensurability, exploitation, and unknown risk Really impressive study and dataset! 🙌 https://t.co/0y5ud88lIt
57. mindfulness for engineers, via @PearShapedComic https://t.co/yu4zxU6cE4 https://t.co/onmSyNobks
58. spectrum of info packet configs https://t.co/OIaOAmXsF0
59. informed simplicity https://t.co/SQo1CSVDdP
60. The Innovator’s Dilemma (worth clicking thru for the whole thread) https://t.co/hPlQqi3E3U https://t.co/O2IzYvlBn0
61. Political compass map https://t.co/Pm0q1hN7j7 https://t.co/r8YzK5RxvD
reposting the first image: insightful visuals 1. improvement vs perceived improvement I believe it's by @marcdalessio: https://t.co/o6eRry7NVh https://t.co/4BVzTRtBoW
62. evolution of alphabets https://t.co/L4axBrhIEw
63. tank alignment chart https://t.co/AwB5tGG3U5
64. swiss cheese model https://t.co/hbv6wc5OJE
65. sorting algorithms https://t.co/4bSkuSwKOH https://t.co/Avpdp4FsmV
67. 4,000 years of world history https://t.co/Blwr48hJKH
68. Latino alignment chart (h/t @ebeggin1) https://t.co/GKv6AWMskG
69. principles of motion design https://t.co/ZapsPvMGJM
70. rave alignment chart https://t.co/3opLScRAUC
74. (h/t @burn_naomi) https://t.co/YPnUWXvVU2
75. (h/t @AlexStrook) https://t.co/EYWYoOW1u9
@RichDecibels @PearShapedComic the rest of the strip also conveys more of the vibe https://t.co/YIftM3AfyI
