Came for the xkcd Money Chart. Leaving happy.

Though their Converting to Metric was great as well.

Approves:

Exactly how are the "Samba de" Maracas descended from the Miracle Piano?

I asked for and received one of these for xmas when I was a kid:



/ told you I was hardcore.

// I got the paperback version of Gray's Anatomy that year too.

The game controller chart should be "Continuous Intelligent Design" and would serve to show the difference between evolution and design practices.

wildcardjack: The game controller chart should be "Continuous Intelligent Design" and would serve to show the difference between evolution and design practices.

Are you implying humans came from wombats?

fap indeed

maxheck: I asked for and received one of these for xmas when I was a kid:

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/ told you I was hardcore.

// I got the paperback version of Gray's Anatomy that year too.

And it remains the most ingenious and useful chart ever devised.

Well, I can tell now that I am not color blind

Coming up next on Chart Week Discovery.

My ex thought the deterioration of our relationship was all my fault - then I showed him the graph. You can't argue with graphs, because they're made of facts.

scottydoesntknow: kid_icarus: My ex thought the deterioration of our relationship was all my fault - then I showed him the graph. You can't argue with graphs, because they're made of facts.

You have a graph on that?

You can't make graphs about graphs. Not without expanding beyond the 3rd dimension.

kid_icarus: scottydoesntknow: kid_icarus: My ex thought the deterioration of our relationship was all my fault - then I showed him the graph. You can't argue with graphs, because they're made of facts.

You have a graph on that?

You can't make graphs about graphs. Not without expanding beyond the 3rd dimension.

I disagree. As evidence:

kid_icarus: scottydoesntknow: kid_icarus: My ex thought the deterioration of our relationship was all my fault - then I showed him the graph. You can't argue with graphs, because they're made of facts.

You have a graph on that?

You can't make graphs about graphs. Not without expanding beyond the 3rd dimension.

That's what cherades are for!

Thank you, subby!

"Anatomy of a Virus" was awesome.

Ahem, as evidence: Link (new window)

Too bad that video game controller chart is god-awful.

* Terribly drawn art
* Terrible and misinformed connections
* Doesn't have the Wii Remote listed as a direct descendent of the Famicom/NES controller

JackieRabbit:

maxheck: I asked for and received one of these for xmas when I was a kid:

[img831.imageshack.us image 640x457]

/ told you I was hardcore.

// I got the paperback version of Gray's Anatomy that year too.

And it remains the most ingenious and useful chart ever devised.

No joke. For whatever reason high-school Chemistry didn't come naturally to me, but a few years of rolling over in bed and seeing that chart on the wall made it all plain. It's about as informationally-rich as it gets. I think mine only goes up to Mendeleveum, but I'm still thinking of having a few decades of tobacco smoke and dust cleaned off of mine and then laminating it. It used to have pride of place in my dining room if you want to talk true geekery.

Flint Ironstag: Came for the xkcd Money Chart. Leaving happy.

Though their Converting to Metric was great as well.

Hah, I never noticed the 3L = 2L bottle before

JudgeItoBox: Too bad that video game controller chart is god-awful.

* Terribly drawn art
* Terrible and misinformed connections
* Doesn't have the Wii Remote listed as a direct descendent of the Famicom/NES controller

... more like god-AWESOME!

looks like Chris Ware designed it, who is freaking incredible. and i might be buying the Money chart. they have a gigantic one (6' x 4') for $95 which is so tempting, but the $15 one (3' x 2') seems more practical.

/sweet link, subby

I hate to be a nerd, but that "evolution of video game controllers" one completely omitted the Coleco Marksman rifle.

Minard's chart of Napoleon's Russian campaign works pretty well.

Favorite and best are not synonyms.

So uh...no one thinks the Russian Space Launch chart looks like a certain feminine body part?

NewMossie: So uh...no one thinks the Russian Space Launch chart looks like a certain feminine body part?

Mulva?

Really? I thought most of those "charts" belonged in chart hell, and the bastards who created them need to be fired.

I would be incredibly pissed if one of my people presented something like that.

The XKCD Movie Narrative Charts (new window) amuse me.

It's total bullshiat that this didn't make the cut.

Perhaps my favorite visualization graphic

All great except the Envisioning Technology one. The maker is clearly very misinformed. Also they seem to swap between emergence and common use of a given technology quite often for which future time period they see things. There is stuff shown which has been around since the late 80's but just isn't in any common implementation.

Definitely glad XKCD's The Money made it though.

I enjoy the twitter chart. Look at all the english in the shipping channels. I'll bet that's actually a giveaway of American naval movements.

maxheck: Minard's chart of Napoleon's Russian campaign works pretty well.

Oddly enough, the Perot Systems (now Dell Consulting) office in Tampa has that framed & hung in the visitor greeting bay.

/Waterloo

drool...



/burp

Flint Ironstag: Came for the xkcd Money Chart. Leaving happy.

^THIS^

Nurglitch: kid_icarus: scottydoesntknow: kid_icarus: My ex thought the deterioration of our relationship was all my fault - then I showed him the graph. You can't argue with graphs, because they're made of facts.

You have a graph on that?

You can't make graphs about graphs. Not without expanding beyond the 3rd dimension.

I disagree. As evidence:


Since nobody else commented on it, I will. Nicely done!

Graph pr0n? Yes please.



Higher res. (new window)

/Classic.

AaronB1138: All great except the Envisioning Technology one. The maker is clearly very misinformed. Also they seem to swap between emergence and common use of a given technology quite often for which future time period they see things. There is stuff shown which has been around since the late 80's but just isn't in any common implementation.

Definitely glad XKCD's The Money made it though.

Some of the charts seem inaccurate or use unreliable data. For instance, where is the twitter language chart getting its user location information from? The fact you aren't seeing any non-English tweets in the USA is highly suspicious. So they sure as hell aren't using tweet geotagging.