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Wikipedia Lamest Edit Wars (Infographic)

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Re: Wikipedia Lamest Edit Wars (Infographic)

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Post by Groxx »

I love how the death star article is on there. Though I don't know that this qualifies as an infographic: the only info on it is title + num_edits. The relative sizes aren't informative, their locations aren't informative (horizontal or vertical, I'm sure the Jesus article is still highly edited).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars for the data. Not sure where to get the edit counts, aside from checking the history statistics.

Re: Wikipedia Lamest Edit Wars (Infographic)

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Post by aristus »

Groxx wrote: post #3

I love how the death star article is on there. Though I don't know that this qualifies as an infographic: the only info on it is title + num_edits. The relative sizes aren't informative, their locations aren't informative (horizontal or vertical, I'm sure the Jesus article is still highly edited). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars for the data. Not sure where to get the edit counts, aside from c…

And, dammit, it's spelled Brasil.

Re: Wikipedia Lamest Edit Wars (Infographic)

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Post by Groxx »

aristus wrote: post #4
Groxx wrote: post #3

I love how the death star article is on there. Though I don't know that this qualifies as an infographic: the only info on it is title + num_edits. The relative sizes aren't informative, their locations aren't informative (horizontal or vertical, I'm sure the Jesus article is still highly edited). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars for the data. Not sure where to get the edit counts, aside from c…

And, dammit, it's spelled Brasil .

IMDB says "no": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

Battle!

Re: Wikipedia Lamest Edit Wars (Infographic)

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Post by forinti »

aristus wrote: post #4
Groxx wrote: post #3

I love how the death star article is on there. Though I don't know that this qualifies as an infographic: the only info on it is title + num_edits. The relative sizes aren't informative, their locations aren't informative (horizontal or vertical, I'm sure the Jesus article is still highly edited). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars for the data. Not sure where to get the edit counts, aside from c…

And, dammit, it's spelled Brasil .

Brésil, j'en suis sûr.

Re: Wikipedia Lamest Edit Wars (Infographic)

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Post by ajdecon »

tptacek wrote: post #6

Once again, an "infographic" at InformationIsBeautiful.net contributes very little beyond the underlying prose it's based on (in this case a Google spreadsheet, which is actually easier to read).

Unfortunately, InformationIsBeautiful.net basically exists to be an advertisement for the author's book, The Visual Miscellaneum. Which is a very pretty book--I own it--but not really full of informative infographics. There's some original content in the blog, but far too much of it is reposts of graphics from the book.

For a better (or at least more varied) selection of infographics I like:

* Chart Porn (http://chartporn.org/)

* Flowing Data (http://flowingdata.com/) which also covers datavis software

* Information Aesthetics (http://infosthetics.com/)

* We Love DataVis (http://datavis.tumblr.com/)

(edit: formatting)

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