Stumble It!
"If they could stop time and live forever in good health, the average adult says the ideal age is 41," reports USA Today, (Graphic by Shannon Reilly and Juan Tomassie based upon Harris Interactive Poll)
"41 is the 'Ideal Age,' but preferences vary greatly depending on how old you are now," according to a Harris Interactive Poll conducted a couple of years back, featured this morning as one of USA Today's "Snapshots". 'Sounds about right.
It was the yummy graphic (above) that caught our eye. How clever can you get, using a piece of birthday cake with number candles as stand-ins for your x and y axes (well, sorta)? Edward Tufte's "poetry of visual information" comes to mind. High data density.
Update: The Prop of coffeegrounds comments:
I am afraid Professor Tufte would go nuts when he saw that. I went to a seminar a few years back with him and he was stone cold anti-"infographic".
There's no accounting for taste.
I am afraid Professor Tufte would go nuts when he saw that. I went to a seminar a few years back with him and he was stone cold anti-"infographic".
Posted by: The Prop | April 18, 2005 at 11:48 AM
Darn. I was afraid of something like that.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | April 18, 2005 at 11:53 AM