Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: July 6-13, 2015
Article: What's this all about?
Page: 42
Author: Lev Grossman
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1. William Playfair was born in1759.
2. William Playfair worked for Engineer James Watt.
3. The unit of power is named after James Watt.
4. William Playfair pursued draftmanship, accounting, engineering, economics, silversmithing, land speculation, journalism, and extortion after working for Engineer James Watt.
5. William Playfair founded Statistical Graphics.
6. Playfair invented the pie chart, bar chart, and line graph.
7. Playfair's book, "The Commerical and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure and Debts of England During the Whole of the Eighteenth Century" in 1786.
8. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, said that every two weeks humanity creates a quantity of data equivalent to the entire amount created form the dawn of time up until 2003.
9. The Internet of Things is the global network of objects like cars, coke machines, glasses, pacemakers outfitted with sensors and transmitters that communicate with the cloud and one another.
10. Market-Research firm IDC estimates that the world of digital data would grow by a factor of 10 from 2013 to 2020.
11. IDC believes the growth from 2013 to 2020 will be 44 trillion gigabytes.
12. IDC believes the growth from 2013 to 2020 will be 44 zettabytes.
13. True, we're rich in data- but the returns are diminishing rapidly, because after a certain point the more information you have, the harder it becomes to extract meaning from it.
14. Visual Art makes complexity comprehensible and extracting meaning from chaos.
15. The best way to extract meaning from data is to make it visible.
16. CUNY Professor Lev Manovich conducted a visual analysis of 120,000 pictures on Instagram.
17. Women take more selfies.
18. People smile the most in Bangkok.
19. Older people are taking selfies in New York.
20. True, data is like water, data visualization is the flood wall.
21. At Bostonography.com, you can see a map showing the locations of all of Boston's buses.
22. Crimemapping.com shows locations of crimes as they're reported.
23. Neil Halloran created "The Fallen of World War II."
24. "The Fallen of World War II" uses charts and graphs to tell a story through the war and the Holocaust using almost exclusively abstract visualizations that represent the many millions of deaths they caused.
25. True, information doesn't just want to be free. It wants to be visible too.
Reference
http://time.com/author/lev-grossman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Lev-Manovich
http://bostonography.com/
http://www.crimemapping.com/
http://www.neilhalloran.com/
Date: July 6-13, 2015
Article: What's this all about?
Page: 42
Author: Lev Grossman
U-$1.00-B-0.0046743907-BE-214
go to questions
go to directory of books
Answer Key
1. William Playfair was born in1759.
2. William Playfair worked for Engineer James Watt.
3. The unit of power is named after James Watt.
4. William Playfair pursued draftmanship, accounting, engineering, economics, silversmithing, land speculation, journalism, and extortion after working for Engineer James Watt.
5. William Playfair founded Statistical Graphics.
6. Playfair invented the pie chart, bar chart, and line graph.
7. Playfair's book, "The Commerical and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure and Debts of England During the Whole of the Eighteenth Century" in 1786.
8. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, said that every two weeks humanity creates a quantity of data equivalent to the entire amount created form the dawn of time up until 2003.
9. The Internet of Things is the global network of objects like cars, coke machines, glasses, pacemakers outfitted with sensors and transmitters that communicate with the cloud and one another.
10. Market-Research firm IDC estimates that the world of digital data would grow by a factor of 10 from 2013 to 2020.
11. IDC believes the growth from 2013 to 2020 will be 44 trillion gigabytes.
12. IDC believes the growth from 2013 to 2020 will be 44 zettabytes.
13. True, we're rich in data- but the returns are diminishing rapidly, because after a certain point the more information you have, the harder it becomes to extract meaning from it.
14. Visual Art makes complexity comprehensible and extracting meaning from chaos.
15. The best way to extract meaning from data is to make it visible.
16. CUNY Professor Lev Manovich conducted a visual analysis of 120,000 pictures on Instagram.
17. Women take more selfies.
18. People smile the most in Bangkok.
19. Older people are taking selfies in New York.
20. True, data is like water, data visualization is the flood wall.
21. At Bostonography.com, you can see a map showing the locations of all of Boston's buses.
22. Crimemapping.com shows locations of crimes as they're reported.
23. Neil Halloran created "The Fallen of World War II."
24. "The Fallen of World War II" uses charts and graphs to tell a story through the war and the Holocaust using almost exclusively abstract visualizations that represent the many millions of deaths they caused.
25. True, information doesn't just want to be free. It wants to be visible too.
Reference
http://time.com/author/lev-grossman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Lev-Manovich
http://bostonography.com/
http://www.crimemapping.com/
http://www.neilhalloran.com/
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