[Informatics] A Couple of Interesting Infographics

[Paul Pascoe]

Folks,


Sorry about the cross post if you receive this twice.


Good discussion material for classes - U202 in Y11  and  Data in Informatics.



First up : How Much do Companies succeed at Social Media Marketing:


https://blog.infogr.am/infogram-insights-how-brands-annoy-customers-on-social/

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Infogram Insights: How Brands Annoy Customers on Social | Infogr.am<https://blog.infogr.am/infogram-insights-how-brands-annoy-customers-on-social/>
blog.infogr.am
Infogram Insights offers a deeper look at relevant, newsworthy topics visualized with Infogram. Today we look at what brands annoy people on social media.





Interesting that Retail, Consumer Goods, and Entertainment do well, but health, education, and finance are the lowest performers. Says a lot about our modern world/



Second - What's news in different countries on the Internet:


http://www.newsmap.jp/


Interesting things come up, like the big areas with new internet pages are generally Sport and Entertainment, and in most countries, Health is the lowest volume news item.
The iphone is big news in Aus and US, but in India the Apple watch was big news earlier this week.



Newsmap<http://www.newsmap.jp/>
www.newsmap.jp
about. Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps ...

Thirdly - around the 3 minute mark in this video maps are shown where all the different types of drug users are located around the world, and following on from this fears whipped up by the media.

Very interesting video.


https://blog.infogr.am/video-david-mccandless-does-my-graph-look-big-in-this/

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Video: David McCandless 'Does My Graph Look Big in This?' | Infogr.am<https://blog.infogr.am/video-david-mccandless-does-my-graph-look-big-in-this/>
blog.infogr.am
Data is pretty serious, but it doesn't have to be. London-based author and information designer David McCandless breaks down the humor found in data viz.





Enjoy,
Paul Pascoe

IT/Multimedia Teacher

St Francis Xavier College
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