Graphic Science |
What is Going on in this Graph? |
Every week during the year, we will select one of the following files and attempt to decipher what the image, graph, data or table is conveying.
The following graphics are courtesy of Scientific American.
Graphic Science Number 1: Are Americans getting fatter?. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 2: Big cities and pollution. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 3: Global distribution of Nobel Prizes. What does the data suggest?. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 4: Caffeine trends in products over time.. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 5: Leg and head injuries at the Olympics. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 6: Can RFID tags be used to track the spread of outbreaks in hospitals?. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 7: Weapon and murder rates. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 8: Spice imports and cleanliness. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 9: What global risks worry Global Economic Forum experts the most?. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 10: Children vaccination rates. What does the data show?. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 11: United States demand for fruit and vegetables. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 12: Graduate school degrees and gender. What does the datas show?. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 13: Is a particular drug-resistant stomach bug gaining a foothold in the U.S.? (pdf) Graphic Science Number 14: How to gain or lose 30 minutes of life everyday. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 15: Are immigrants moving up the wealth ladder?. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 16: Warming ocean and sea life. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 17: Which nations consume the most water?. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 18: Why do birds live longer than turtles? (pdf) Graphic Science Number 19: Has NASA become Mars-obsessed? (pdf) Graphic Science Number 20: Democrats and Republican agree on Climate Change. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 21: Foreign companies and U.S. patents. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 22: A road map to the 'Volume Control' of genes. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 23: Buried in Ash. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 24: Countries grab farmland beyond their own borders. (pdf). (pdf) Graphic Science Number 25: Different research papers score big with scientists and the public. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 26: Ebola rises again and again. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 27: Are rising temperatures threatening tropical species more than other ecosystems? (pdf) Graphic Science Number 28: Car companies and fuel efficiency. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 29: The bird family gets a makeover. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 30: Comparing small genetic differences between humans and other primates . (pdf) Graphic Science Number 31: World population will soar higher than predicted. (pdf) Graphic Science Number 32: The Bacteria Game (pdf) Graphic Science Number 33: Comparing where invasive species come from (pdf) Graphic Science Number 34: T 'The true size of Africa (pdf) |
The following graphs are courtesy of the New York Times
What's going on in this graph #1? (pdf) What's going on in this graph #2? (pdf) What's going on in this graph #3? (pdf) What's going on In this graph #4? (pdf) |