On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 05:59:11PM +0100, Max Spevack wrote:
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Karsten Wade wrote:
> In a hospital ICU, there is the main machine that goes 'Ping', and it
> tracks O2 sat levels, heart rate, blood pressure, etc. Then there are
> other machines that are occasionally or regularly used. Twice a day a
> couple of nice lady vampires from the lab drop by to take yet more
> samples. Etc.
And when a community dies, it just sends one long flatline to the list,
as such:
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/troll
Maybe just analogy abuse, not really a trolling. :)
As some know, I'm a minor Edward Tufte[1] fan. I like cool graphs,
with lots of data artfully summarized, miniaturized, and ready for
human insight.[2]
- Karsten
[1]
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
[2] Some examples, the first one is a Tufte favorite; he gave out
posters of it on one of his tours:
http://www.orangemath.com/graphics/napoleon_russia_graph.jpg
The second shows data in a way
that gives rise to interpretation beyond the data. Why such a
high percentage of people jump facing East (in to the vast city of
the Bay Area) instead of West (toward the vast Pacific Ocean)? Is
there meaning to the pattern of how far people walk before
jumping? Etc.:
http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/photos/jatwood/images/1575/original.aspx
(Original blog post that image came from:
http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/jatwood/archive/2005/11/04/1576.aspx )
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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