Infographics are hot right now - it sees like everyone is getting in on them. And why not? They're fun. These days though, I'm more interested in the data behind the infographics. Maybe it is just because I've been heads-down doing a ton of online research to inform creative ideas for clients, or maybe its just because I like data. I especially like the large data sets that are made easily accessible thanks to social media.
Here are a couple of my favorite pieces of data mining (and I think all of them could make for great infographics):
TorrentFreak predicts Inception will clean up at the Oscars
Per their blog post: "After crunching the numbers, taken from thousands of publicly available torrents, this awards race turned out to be an easy win for Inception. With a staggering 13,780,000 downloads Christopher Nolan’s movie was the clear winner." Note: based on previous years, these torrent-based predictions don't necessarily hold true.
Stumbling During the Super Bowl
StumbleUpon is easily my favourite social media site/tool/distraction, and it was really cool to see the way they analyzed the way people were using the site over the course of the Super Bowl.
Music Download Analysis Reveals Mood of Bahrain
I loved this post that BoingBoing made over the weekend about judging the national mood of countries based on the music that was being downloaded. How has this changed over time? What would it look like compared the current economy?
In this little study, someone compared the amount of swear words included in different types of computer code.
Have you seen any other cool bits of data mining and analysis like this?
-Parker