For those who are livid about the TSA's scanners and intrusive searches, this Venn diagram, which made its way around the interweb recently, was pretty amusing:
But a guy named Andrew Plotkin pointed out the innaccuracies in how the diagram was conceived, and that's even funnier. If it followed the rules for Venn diagrams, it should have looked like this:
Since that wasn't what the diagram's creator meant to say, what's needed is to turn the diagram's info inside-out, so that it looks like this:
Plotkin has more to say here.
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via TechDirt.com and norwegianity.com
Monday, January 3, 2011
Venn, Where and How
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I don't have anything interesting to comment, but I followed the link to Plotkin and read it all, and followed his link to chartjunk and read all about Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and am in the process of buying Tufte's text.
I am either a graph junkie or on vacation. Or both.
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