When I saw this chart [1], I thought someone was trying to flip Tufte the bird. This infographic, apparently, is trying to show us the size of the Mobile market. There is not one but twelve overlapping pie charts, ample use of garish colors that convey no information, use of sans serif fonts, and even a secondary bar graph at the bottom. The pie charts have different relative sizes but one cannot be sure why: some pies represent billions of some unit, e.g. numbers and dollars, and others percentages. Some pie charts overlap others for no apparent reason, yet others overlap to possibly show a magnified view of a slice (e.g. the Hardware Revenue section of the green pie chart). The values in the “Top 5 smartphones” pie chart do not add up …show more content…
There was a frenzied search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 when it went missing. I remember I was running on a treadmill when a news story mentioned that a signal from the flight’s transponder had been detected at a depth of about 3 miles and that the search operation was having a lot of trouble locating the transponder at that depth. The depth didn’t seem like a big deal to me at the time because I was halfway through the third mile of my run. Immediately after my run, I searched the Internet for the flight transponder’s depth and found the infographic from Washington Post. This graphic immediately brought into perspective the “depth of the problem”. The chart uses a linear scale to show depth starting from sea-level. As you journey deeper and deeper, you’re presented with images and cues that frame the problem in a real-world context. For example, you’re shown the depth where the tallest building in the world would end up if it were inverted; deeper still you enter the realm of giant squids and sperm whales; even deeper you pass by the wreck of Titanic. You pass by the transponder of another flight at 13,100 feet that took two years to find. Yet you go deeper. Until finally, at a depth of 15,000 feet, you see where the signal of this Malaysian Flight was located. The chart tells you that this is also the deepest known part of the
“‘The ‘Bermuda Triangle’, or ‘Devil’s Triangle’, is a mythical geographic area’, states a fact sheet issued by the U.S. Coast Guard” (Gaffron 17). One of the most influential groups in the United States believes that the Bermuda Triangle is only a myth. “Most rational explanations for the incidents in the Bermuda Triangle, including the explanations given by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, include human error and environmental effects” (Obringer). The U.S. Navy has lost quite a few ships in the Bermuda Triangle region and believe that the reason behind those disappearances involved either human or technical difficulties. “Plane ditchings or explosions in flight may result from many causes; lack of visible evidence being explained by the truism that ‘It’s a big ocean’” (Berlitz 6) The reports from the people that actually lost lives believe in that something bad but normal happened which is a sound explanation for the
On June 23, 1985, a bomb was planted on Air India Flight 182 that exploded and killed the 329 passengers and crew while airborne (Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182: Final report, 2010). A second bomb at Tokyo’s Narita Airport killed two baggage handlers that were unloading luggage from a Canadian Pacific Airlines flight, the baggage was also prepared to be on the Air India flight. Sikh terrorists were responsible for planting the two bombs. In total 331 people were killed (CIIBAIF 182, 2010).
Terrorism – This is a word that many people are terrified of. When a terrorist attack occurs, people’s daily routines are shattered. Things change instantaneously the moment the bomb goes of. When we think about a terrorist attack that really impacted the world, we immediately think about 9/11. On that day many people were hurt directly and indirectly. People were disorientated and scared. The moment there is change, the world panics. Unfortunately, 9/11 was not the only day where people panicked. On 1988, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 occurred. This terrorist attack was not as massive as 9/11; but, it did leave scares especially to the Syracuse University community.
Is the government covering up the truth about the September 11 event in New York City or it’s just classified information that the world is not ready for. For many Years people around the world have came up with all these conspiracy theories about 911. theories such as Flight 93 being completely staged, there really was no second plane, some even say inside traders knew about attacks before they happened. These theories have many people wondering if the government really is covering up the truth about 911. Though no one can prove whether some 911 conspiracies are true , there are many suspicious events leading up to the tragedy that point to foul play.
Two hundred twenty-seven people boarded the plane, not expecting anything out of the ordinary.(Dinguan, Qingqing, Schapiro). The plane remained in contact with air traffic control for quite a while. At 1:21 A.M. local time the plane vanished from radar (Cook, Dooley). It is astounding that researchers
This report is on the Crossair flight 3597 crash which happens at Zurich airport on 24th November 2001. Analysis of Crossair flight 3597 will be covered, which includes details such as facts of Crossair flight 3597 crash, and the three contributing factors involved in the air accident. The three contributing factors are mainly Crossair, pilot error and communications with air traffic controllers.
The PTSD pie charts on my infographic are about the percentage rates about veterans getting/ having PTSD after their duties. Iraq veterans have 13.8% of their veterans getting/having PTSD, as shown in first pie chart shaded dark orange. Gulf War veterans have 12% of their veterans getting/having PTSD, as shown in the second pie chart shaded light green. The general population of veterans have 3.5% chance of having/getting PTSD, as shown in the third pie chart shaded in pink. 15.2% of male veterans have/gotten PTSD after
Flight 19 was the designation of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945 during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 of the airmen on the flight were lost as well as the 13 crew members of a PBM Mariner flying boat of professional investigators which is thought to have exploded in mid-air while searching for the flight. Navy investigators could not determine the cause of the loss of Flight 19 yet many researchers argue otherwise claiming that there is a specific cause for the disappearance of Flight 19.
When finding out the plane’s frequency and signals for its precise location, a company called, “Inmarsat” used the Doppler Effect to analyze the shifts castoff by the pilots. Inmarsat officially tracked the location using evidence of debris found throughout the remote side of the Indian Ocean. The first British jets flew by because they believed it the Boeing 777, but were unable to identify the certain debris as part of the plane. British Jets guided by the U.N. delivered the saddened news to Prime Minister Najib Razak, who delivered an official speech to the people of Malaysia as he informed that no one had survived Flight 370 (Payne). As the people of Malaysia were flustered by the news, Chinese people were more distraught as two-thirds of the plane's passengers were Chinese citizens. The Chinese government believed that there may be a hijacked that happened as two passengers on the plane had fake passports. One woman who was staying at the Lido Hotel and a family member of one of the ...
World barriers can be described as mountains, forests, and the seas. It shows how many people go in great depths for their ambition to find the answers to Z and Fawcett. Going into these depths can slowly isolate them from the world. “Despite cutting, chopping, and pushing through from morning till night… their legs stuck in mud... Their shoes disintegrated”.
Flight 93, the flight that crashed near some fields in the outskirts of Pennsylvania. But what was it doing there? What caused the plane to miss its target and crash? These answers may soon be revealed when detectives can finally examine the planes black box, found just recently. Many answers however can be found through other pieces of info that have come up along the way during the investigations.
There are a lot of types of charts. Some of them are bar chart, pie chart, line chart, histogram, and etc.
There are two types of pie charts. The first type is your standard Pie Chart and the second is the Exploded Pie Chart. The standard pie chart shows parts and their relationship to the whole. Pie charts are always based on a circle, since the circle provides a true visual concept of the whole hundred percent. The parts or ¡§pies¡¨ of the chart represent percentages of the whole. The Exploded Pie Chart is nearly identical to the standard with the exception that one ¡§pie¡¨ is visually separated from the rest for emphasis. Pie charts are created with the help of a compass, protractor, circle stencil, can or jar and a ruler for drawing in the segmented pies. A pie chart should alwa...
When I stepped into the large neatly organized white polished plane, I never though something would go wrong. I woke up and found myself on an extremely hot bright sunny desert island filled with shiny soft bright green palm trees containing rough bright yellow hard felt juicy apples. The simple strong plane I was in earlier shattered into little pieces of broken glass and metal when crashing onto the wet slimy coffee colored sand and burning with red orange colored flames. After my realization to this heart throbbing incident I began to run pressing my eight inch footsteps into the wet squishy slimy light brown sand looking in every direction with my wide open eyes filled with confusion in search of other survivors. After finding four other survivors we began moving our small petite weak legs fifty inches from the painful incident. Reaching our destination which was a tiny space filled with dark shade blocking the extreme heat coming from the bright blue sky, I felt my eyelids slowly moving down my light colored hazel eyes and found myself in a dream. I was awakened the next day from a grumbling noise coming from my empty stomach.
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