CNN has posted some 360° video footage of driving down a road in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The video starts with a group of Hatians looking at the car and wondering, “What the heck is that on the roof?” As they drive down the street, you can see much of the damage caused by buildings that have collapsed, with some of them in the street. It is almost like being in the car in the city. You can turn around and look at fallen buildings as they drive past them. At one point, the CNN car drives down the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. And here you thought drivers in your home town were crazy.
via CNN : Haiti: 360°
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CNN has another infographic online showing the growth in population, CO2 emissions, and electricity consumption from 1950 to present around the world. The chart looks pretty, but I have a few issues with it:
- Comparing disparate values – Population vs Tons of Emissions vs Watts. What’s the relationship between them?
- The use of Circles.. that overlap rather messily
But it does do a rather effective job of showing the explosive growth in the Asia markets. What do you think?
Powering the Earth – CNN.com.
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The Simpsons has just celebrated their 20th anniversary, and CNN Entertainment published this “Simpsons Comedy Chart” showing the various influences of the brand.
However, in doing so, “The Simpsons” stands on the comedic shoulders of many that came before — and has influenced countless works that have arrived since. Here are just a few of the roots of the “Simpsons” comedy tree and the branches of those it gave life to. (The following, illustrated by the doughnut at the top of the story, is by no means complete, and each member has its own, sometimes overlapping influences.)
via The ‘Simpsons’ comedy tree – CNN.com., via CoolInfographics
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CNN has recently relaunched their website, focusing heavily on Video and the “iReport” social features. “Feltron” was given the job of analyzing their web statistics and visualizing the traffic patterns over the last 13 years. It’s a massive amount of datathat he’s trimmed down into an impressive collection of graphs.
The spike chart of average weekly page views forms the centerpiece of the chart. The busiest 10 weeks are called out, and the events associated with the week are highlighted below the x-axis… along with other events of cultural significance or large week-over-week gains. I also tracked the absolute and relative growth of their site categories over time, and highlighted several unique metrics at the top of the chart, including the busiest and slowest days of the year, and the number of countries that visit the site (192 at last count). Finally, to put everything in context, I found milestones in the history of the Internet for each year which I placed along the bottom of the chart to create context for the narrative.
via feltron — In conjunction with the relaunch of their website,….
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Uh oh, the MSM is on to us! In a piece called “A new way of looking at the world,” CNN Tech
explores the boom of visualization tools and results, with emphasis on social media apps as visualization enabler. Stamen-designed Crimespotting, Ben Fry’s All Streets and work by Nathan Yau of Flowing Data are highlighted among others.
CNN Tech | A new way of looking at the world
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