Data
Got fucked over by car insurers. Far too angry to go into details. Waiting for the rage to simmer so that a nice letter can be written. Was so exhausted after the hour-long stonewall telephone conversation that had to lay down.
On the upside, I discovered today that there is a Guardian data blog. I’ve not had time to extensively explore but I discovered it after reading a G2 piece about a guy compiling a list of every Doctor Who villain. Sounds fun. Also found my way to Many Eyes, ‘a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns.’ Interesting visualisations include 1968 in France - Major political speeches and this on movie genres. It’s slightly too America-focused but looks interesting. And Many Eyes led me to TypoTopo, which overlaps typography with topography, and generally seems ultra-cool.
Good magazine has a decent looking section on infographics, although it is, again, highly America-focused. It also seems a bit showy, and the info is hard to determine in amongst all the graphic. (Unsure what Feltron would think about it). Still, the magazine seems like a decent idea. Ethics and all that shit.
Maybe if the people who own car insurance companies spent a bit more time looking at interesting data sets and a bit less time trying to fuck people in the arsehole they wouldn’t be such tossers. Or maybe not.
