image credit: GraphJam
August has ended. Technically, fall is upon us. We won't have another holiday off until Thanksgiving. I figured for the first ThreeMinds post back from Labor Day weekend, we all could use a laugh. And one form of data visualization that has really came into its own in the past few years is graph humor.
The king of the graph humor is Demetri Martin. Demetri is famous for his contributions to the Daily Show and he has appeared on everything from Conan O'Brien to Flight of the Concords. But it was back in his 2004 Comedy Central special where his unique brand of graph humor really shined.
Of course, there are many other varieties of graph humor...
Song Chart Meme
So popular that it has it's own Flickr Group, the Song Chart Meme takes popular music and breaks it down into graph form. Some of the best examples of which can be found on GraphJam. As you can see by my choices, I have a bias for 80s music, but there are many many others to be enjoyed:
Smart People Graphs
Song Chart Memes are easy to like and easy to get, but there are plenty of charts on GraphJam that take a few seconds to sink in:
Occupational Hazard
Of course since most of us weirdos that enjoy graph humor are in the web business, you tend to see a lot of charts along those lines. The best of which usually come in flow-chart form (thanks to Sandra Marsh for the image):
Cat Humor
And no internet humor post would be complete without some form of cat humor:
Oh yeah, and it's my birthday today :)
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Happy birthday Marta! Thanks for the laugh this morning :)
Posted on September 2, 2008 05:56
Great stuff. Here's another one of my favorites:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/02/hilarious-piechartvi.html
Posted on September 2, 2008 11:16
Loved your articles this week! As I was watching the clip with Demetri Martin I realized that if anyone ever does a movie of the life of Carl Sagan that Demetri could be an amazing Sagan - his looks, his unique brilliance. Anyway, thanks for the humour! Not sure why I thought of Sagan and Demetri and charts all intertwined; guess I had a moment of non-linear clarity.
Posted on September 3, 2008 08:12
Happy belated birthday, Marta -- great post!
Posted on September 3, 2008 14:36