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Love pie. Hate pie-charts

Stephen Base

17th March 2011

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I have just been given David McCandless’ great coffee table book ‘Information is Beautiful’. As a consequence I’ve been raiding some of his images for class as an alternative to ‘boring’ tables and charts. Try starting with these ‘Mountains Out of Molehills’ - timeline of global media scare stories, an interactive visualisation of Cohen’s Moral Panics? ‘Left vs. Right’ – SCLY3 Politics for Dummies! ‘Racist profiling’ – a mapping correlation of ethnicity population density and support of nationalistic parties in the UK. Psephology for SCLY3?

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Stephen Base

Sociology Teacher, Politics and Popular Culture Junkie.

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