New York Times | 'How Big Were Tuesday’s Republican Swings?' WNYC | Super breakdown of the elections by WNYC, particularly with their comparisons for small differences in voting numbers for context 'The Most Detailed Maps You’ll See From the Midterm Elections' New York Times | Something of a masterpiece. Starting with the 'Are you reflected in the new congress?' The Guardian | All sorts of US mid-term election coverage goodness.
Popular Science | 'Cocktail calculus chart: The inner workings of recipes'ĭata Pointed | 'Crayon The Grids: Maps Of Street Layouts Colored By Orientation'īsix12 | 'East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait by Yang Liu' Tableau Public | Ben Jones offers an interactive Tableau map showing the 'Railroads of the Contiguous United States'Īviz | 'Bertifier is a Web app for rapidly creating tabular visualizations from spreadsheets.'ĭataphys | A chronological 'list of physical visualizations and related artifacts'īloomberg | Interesting dataset: 'What companies are the market leaders within each industry?'Ĭharting the Beatles | 'Song Structure: How did the form of Beatles songs evolve?' Hunger Report | Impactive work that shows how much data is missing on different groups around the worldīBC Magazine | '12 data maps that sum up London' Includes static and interactive visualisation examples, infographics and galleries/collections of relevant imagery.ĭatalooksdope | On the premise that bigger words determines the perceived complexity of a piece of writing, this shows portrayals of different passages using bubbles instead of words (also tons of other interesting stuff) Here’s the latest collection from November 2014. So do something productive today! Learn a new skill or work on something you let fall away awhile ago, because well-rounded, skillful, interesting people are super cool.At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Despite that, there is no doubt that hard-work and practice played huge roles in the iconic levels of success both those entities achieved. Though to be fair, I’m pretty sure there was an impressive level of natural ability in both those cases.
Those are the examples given for the concept of “practice makes perfect” in this infographic. I should probably watch Arrested Development all the way through on Netflix for the fourth time… Anyway the point is, becoming good at things is hard. Who has that kind of time? I’ve got stuff to do. I have a feeling that’s a pretty relatable sentiment because according to this infographic and a commonly accepted rule of thumb, it takes a total of 10,000 hours to become an expert at a given task.
Obviously, I understand that it’s irrational to try to become proficient and highly skilled at anything immediately but I have a bad habit of losing interest with anything I’m not instantly great at. I worked diligently and tirelessly with each of those items for a span of about 48 hours before promptly renouncing the activity altogether. I’ve purchased an electric keyboard, paint supplies, calligraphy pens, and a sewing kit among other things over the years. I love the idea of being an expert in a given field but I find I just don’t have the motivation to truly try to master one.
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