Graphs are great, aren’t they? As any school kid will tell you, ‘they are one of the best means to display lots of data in an easy-to-grasp, visual way.’ Well, the kids that pay attention at the front of the class will tell you that. Others may just say, ‘Huh?’
Graphs and charts can be used to profound effect when illustrating a point, a home truth or hilarious observation and it’s these, with their sardonic and knowing tone, that you’ll find below.
Things Bono Has Found
Pop stars have it all: money, beautiful partners, mansions, cars, etc. Of course there are the downsides of paparazzi and the temptation of nose-diving into drug dependency. Thankfully, Irish rocker Paul Hewson, Bono, has so far kept his head above water and is becoming as well known for his humanitarian work as his musical career. But does he have it all?
The Lions Share
Venn diagrams can be tricky to get your head round. But with a quick bypass of the ‘union’ this or ‘intersect’ that, the general image is easy enough to interpret. If you’re like Dylan Clancy then you can have fun making a mathematically-correct logical relations image of your favourite animal’s face.
DVDs That Get Scratched
It’s an all-too familiar scenario isn’t it? Whether it’s CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray discs, these little wheels of entertainment joy can be surprisingly fragile or unusually robust depending on how much you like their contents.
MacBook Compatibility
Apple is at the forefront of maintaining and promoting inter-device compatibility with its stylish range of technological gadgets. Now you can control TVs with your iPhone, share media between your iPod and iPad, interface with your car; the list goes on. Is there nothing the Apple range can’t hook up to?
What Disney has Taught Us?
Own up! Who has never seen a Disney film as a child? Chances are nearly every kid in the West has spent many hours of their formative years entranced by the adventures and emotional rollercoasters that these movies parade so well. Ah, for the strong message of family and the triumph of good over evil, there can be little better. Of course, sometimes there may be a more unpalatable message to see if you read between the lines.
To Believe or not to Believe
Why is it so hard to convince people of certain things that seem undeniably correct and obvious to you? Compounding this frustration is the bizarre way those selfsame people can be so gullible when it comes to crazy non-facts.
Underappreciated at Work?
Thanks to this great bar chart by dcalive we now have a positive, mathematical image that cements the feelings and experiences of every underappreciated employee.
Age vs. Tactfulness
If you’re of an age where you have young children and rapidly maturing parents you will be experiencing the ‘Tact and Diplomacy Vacuum’ situation. Kids say what comes first to mind and that’s sort of excusable in an often cringe worthy way but then you have the aging adults who blurt out what they’re thinking too, seemingly oblivious to whomever it may offend. Soul_grafitti has nailed it on the head.
Swine Flu Media Coverage
Skewing is a term used in statistics for an effect that gives unwanted bias to your data. It can have interesting consequences too though. For example, asking a group of people the question: ‘Do you feel good?’ is likely to be answered more positively on a sunny day than on a gloomy day. When it comes to modern sensationalist media coverage, skewing can just be annoying and blows a situation out of all proportion.
Take any kind of health scare…
And finally…People Who Find you on Social Networking Sites
It’s so true, well for many people anyway. You sign up to your social networking site of choice hoping to come across your old flame that you still can’t believe you left (or were left by) in the vain attempt to rekindle passions but it doesn’t work out. Instead you are plagued by friend requests from people you don’t know, don’t like or just can’t stand. Why? Why, cruel world? And then to cap off an increasingly bad day you end up feeling obliged to accept their friend requests and regretting the whole sorry process!
