Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: July 6-13, 2015
Article: What's this all about?
Page: 42
Author: Lev Grossman
U-$1.00-B-0.0046743907-BE-214
Comments: Good facts about data and graphic charts.
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Questions
1. When was William Playfair born?
2. Who did Playfair work for as a personal assistant?
3. The unit of power is named after whom?
4. Which professions did William Playfair pursue after working for Engineer James Watt?
5. What field did William Playfair found?
6. What did Playfair invent?
7. When was Playfair's book published, "The Commercial and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure and Debts of England During the Whole of the Eighteenth Century"?
8. Who said, every two days humanity creates a quantity of data equivalent to the entire amount created form the dawn of time up until 2003?
9. What is the Internet of Things?
10. Who estimated that the world of digital data would grow by a factor of 10 from 2013 to 2020?
11. How many gigabytes do they think the growth will be?
12. How many zettabytes do they think the growth will be?
13. We're rich in data-but the returns are diminishing rapidly, because after a certain point the more information you have, the harder it becomes to extract meaning from it. True or False
14. What does visual art do?
15. What is the best way to extract meaning from data?
16. Who conducted a visual analysis of 120,000 pictures on Instagram?
17. Who takes more selfies, men or women?
18. Where do people smile the most?
19. Where are older people taking selfies?
20. Data is like water, data visualization is the flood wall. True or False
21. What can you see at Bostonography.com?
22. What does crimemapping.com show?
23. Who created "The Fallen of World War II"?
24. What is "The Fallen of World War II" about?
25. Information doesn't just want to be free. It wants to be visible too. True or False
Reference
http://time.com/author/lev-grossman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Lev-Manovich
http://bostonography.com/
http://www.crimemapping.com/
http://www.neilhalloran.com/
Date: July 6-13, 2015
Article: What's this all about?
Page: 42
Author: Lev Grossman
U-$1.00-B-0.0046743907-BE-214
Comments: Good facts about data and graphic charts.
go to answer key
go to directory of books
Questions
1. When was William Playfair born?
2. Who did Playfair work for as a personal assistant?
3. The unit of power is named after whom?
4. Which professions did William Playfair pursue after working for Engineer James Watt?
5. What field did William Playfair found?
6. What did Playfair invent?
7. When was Playfair's book published, "The Commercial and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure and Debts of England During the Whole of the Eighteenth Century"?
8. Who said, every two days humanity creates a quantity of data equivalent to the entire amount created form the dawn of time up until 2003?
9. What is the Internet of Things?
10. Who estimated that the world of digital data would grow by a factor of 10 from 2013 to 2020?
11. How many gigabytes do they think the growth will be?
12. How many zettabytes do they think the growth will be?
13. We're rich in data-but the returns are diminishing rapidly, because after a certain point the more information you have, the harder it becomes to extract meaning from it. True or False
14. What does visual art do?
15. What is the best way to extract meaning from data?
16. Who conducted a visual analysis of 120,000 pictures on Instagram?
17. Who takes more selfies, men or women?
18. Where do people smile the most?
19. Where are older people taking selfies?
20. Data is like water, data visualization is the flood wall. True or False
21. What can you see at Bostonography.com?
22. What does crimemapping.com show?
23. Who created "The Fallen of World War II"?
24. What is "The Fallen of World War II" about?
25. Information doesn't just want to be free. It wants to be visible too. True or False
Reference
http://time.com/author/lev-grossman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Lev-Manovich
http://bostonography.com/
http://www.crimemapping.com/
http://www.neilhalloran.com/
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