It’s the end of the term, what works about this image is that it requires very little analytical thought. Use those brain cells for writing papers (and grading them).
Wildish, Stephen. (December 2011) “Santa Venn Diagram” [Graphic Design] via @HilaryGreenbaum.
What can I say, I think it’s funny. Pie chart humor with real pie. Ha.
I am impressed at the time and effort someone put into trimming the pie plates, thinking through the crosshatching, and trying to get some different colors going on.
The text of the original post reads:
“THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT VISUAL PUN TO HAVE EVER BEEN POSTED ON THE INTERNET.”
I’d take that with a grain of salt, especially considering the gratuitous use of all caps. Probably it’s meant to be ironic or sarcastic or some other hipster attitude that I am too old to absorb osmotically.
I still don’t like pie charts.
It’s finals season so this one seems appropriate. And I always like it when people tell jokes with graphs. Extra funny. Maybe only extra funny if you are a nerd.
Chan, Jorge. (27 October 2010) Procrastination
This could easily be applied to just about all research, not just bench science.
Why is it that the media believe their consumers to be so daft? Where did the sound bite come from and what has it done to the production of news? To the practice of scientific research?
What is missing from this depiction of the research ‘cycle’ is that some researchers interpret the pressure to turn complex reality into a series of sensational sound bites as a sign that they should alter the way that they write up results in order to better fit the media’s model of dissemination. It’s hard to say this is always a bad thing – if it means that scientists actively seek a more active role in the dissemination of their work in order to pursue a real discourse, it can be a good thing. If it means that researchers promote their results in a skewed fashion, fail to fully disclose/discuss the conditions in which their findings will hold, or start choosing projects based on what will be more likely to make the news, then this science news cycle can be sincerely detrimental.
I love jokes told via infographic.
We need to tell more jokes via infographic and some of those jokes could be inside jokes that you wouldn’t immediately understand. When I come across an example of what I mean I’ll post it.
Yau, Nathan (25 April 2010) “First Date vs. Reality TV First Date” at Flowing Data.
Because it’s funny.
Landon W. Schurtz. PhD Candidate. University of Oklahoma – Department of Philosophy.
