[_] Cool, and a bit creepy
Matt Kane
ascorbic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 14:30:30 GMT 2008
On 4 Mar 2008, at 14:21, Pete Fairhurst wrote: > On 04/03/2008, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote: >> What a fantastic graph! How many times in your life o you get to >> give a presentation and stick up a great big graph on which one o the >> data points is 'zombie'? >> >> OK, the first person to manage to get that graph into a client >> presentation (and we need a photo of it) I will buy a beer. > > No formal mention of 'zombie' in this graph, but it's superb none > the less: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Minard.png > There was a great article in the ever-intriguing Economist christmas special last year about this and other seminal charts. I think it should be visible to non-subscribers: http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10278643 -- Matt Kane, Lead Developer, Clementine http://www.clevr.com/ Clementine is a trading name of Sphex LLP
