Bird’s Eye: No! Unglaze those eyes, cos this is seriously cool stuff. We start with a TED talk, in which David McCandless makes beautiful easily comprehensible metaphors out of complex data. Then we look at how fast Youtube is uploading movies (Hint: it’s a very long tail.) We link to a list of 113,809 words, (use it for Scrabble, or add it to you personal dictionary) show you a map of the world if countries size were proportional to their population (Russia becomes, China, Canada becomes India, etc….), and put geological time on a spiral.
* David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization TED Talk youtube
David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.
* Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube
Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you’ve increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute…. Another way to think about it is: if three of the major US networks were broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the last 2 years, they still wouldn’t have broadcast as much content as is uploaded to YouTube every 30 days.
* 100,000+ official crossword words
113,809 official words: A list of words permitted in crossword games such as Scrabble™. Compatible with the first edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary™. Since this list has all forms: -ing, -ed, -s, and so on of words, it makes a good addition when building a custom spelling dictionary.
* World Map: If population density were constant
* Geological Time Spiral Wikimedia
