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January 24, 2013
Wolfram Alpha Will Tell You Even More About Your Facebook Page Than You Ever...
Billionaires of the world ranked and charted
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How wealthy are the richest people in the world? How do they compare to each other, and how does their net worth change over time? Bloomberg just put up an interactive tool to answer such questions, and it's updated daily with new data.
There are four main views. The one above shows rankings, their estimated net worth, and the change from the previous estimate. Below is a simple ranking of the world's billionaires. Each floating head is clickable so that you can more information about the individuals, such as a short bio and where there money is from.
It gets more interesting when you click around and explore. For example, there's a plotting view, and the floating heads transition to their sectors, still sorted by ranking:
There's also a bubble map that you can modify to show the metric you're interested in:
Finally, a set of filters and a time slider on the bottom ties it all together. Filter by gender, industry, citizenship, age, and whether or not a billionaire's money was mostly inherited. The slider on the bottom allows you to go back in time to see rankings and net worth change. That part did seem buggy though, as heads seem to disappear or get stuck if you shift too much.
Overall: There's a lot of interesting things to look at and explore, and it works well as a tool. The next steps would probably be to provide pointers and annotation since you have to do most of the searching yourself in this form (but I don't think that's what they were going for).
Give it a go here.
[Thanks, Kenton]
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January 22, 2013
How Keys Work Explained In One Perfect Animated GIF
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January 18, 2013
61 Amazing Kite Aerial Photography Images
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Aerial Photography is something that many people would love to be able to do but find is out of their budget. One more affordable way to go about it is to try some Kite Aerial Photography (KAP).
The 61 images in this post are all arial shots taken by strapping a camera to a kite to elevate it. It's not something for the faint of heart as you are putting your camera at risk but the results can be pretty amazing in the right setting.
Getting up high with your camera attached to a kite gives a fresh perspective on a scene and can highlight patterns, textures and shadows that might not be evident to anyone at ground level.
Don't just duct tape your camera to your kite though – most serious kite aerial photographers use purpose built rigging to get their shots like these:
There's a heap of information on KAP online – Google it and you'll be sure to find some great advice. Now back to some great Kite Aerial Photography images – Enjoy!
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61 Amazing Kite Aerial Photography Images
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