Homosexual activists understand the power of words.
Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".
The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationship being discussed.
The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
I agree, that context is very important, but who chooses what's important? I think images are easier to believe, but they contain also way better possibilities of suggesting things that aren't, - even more dangerous than really wrong data, because they might be correct, and still portray and transmit the wrong idea! Think about this for a second. I'd be careful with over rating, and being overly happy with visualised data!
Might the weekend troughs and Monday peaks be attributable to a lag in status updates, instead of variances in real breakups?
Are status updates overall lower on the weekends? Even if normal status updates are consistent on weekends, I might still believe a lag in breakup status updates due to the alcohol consumption and other behaviors triggered by a breakup, and then you'd update your status first thing at work or in class on Monday!
That bubble graph thing about efficacy of treatments is useless. It doesn't take into account the methodology of each paper, reputation of journal where the paper is being submitted to, origin of paper (alt-med papers in china are usually more positive), funding of paper/research. There are a *huge* amount of things that aren't taken into consideration - it's too much information with zero context. He should have used reviews or meta-analysis, but even then the graphic is useless without context
so, it's all "let's make information look pretty enough that you put it up in a gallery, with better layout that make people pay attnetion". Surely what you need to be doing is giving the cold hard facts if you're presenting some very important imformation to some very important people (execs, business men etc), not spending ages making a pretty layout to put it all on? Seems a bit bizarre and not very important, and wouldn't really make much of a difference anway, but I'll go along with it.
@DeadWhiteButterflies Are you deaf and blind? Dont you see how using good design makes everything easier to comprehend, thus you can give a shorter or more clear talk.
@brinstar117 Well, these numbers surely aren't really exact. But you are also pretty vague comparing it to 'consumer level network cards' (why do you expact consumer level here). And hard discs with 150 MB/s? They exist, but not on 'consumer level' (which usually does not have SSD). So you both compare different things that cannot really be compared. ;)
I disagree about the military numbers. What's important in a military is how much damage it can do to other nations, not how much money is available to be spent, or how many people AREN'T in it. When you get down to it, a military only represents and acts on the orders of its government (if that) and is not accountable to the people at all.
I know there is a site out there that tracks dollar bills. It works by you registering a number and writing on the bill, and then you register the bill, you geo tag it and you can see where the bill has been before you. Trying googling it.
The USA gives, per capita roughly $1.2 pa – contrast this with the roughly $4 that the UK gives, a similar figure to France. Seen in this light the majority of average Europeans (with several notable exceptions) donates roughly three-four times as much as the average American.
It is ironic in the sense that this guy is trying to ‘shaft’ one with statistics in ways you never thought possible. The Obsequious Lackey with the gall to use the same PowerPoint magic to show OPEC = bad, US=Best, US army small and dainty, North Korea = military Behemoth . Can we arrange for Rosling to school this child.
Reqd my comments, qnd those of others. I am not inclined to show you the obvious in a video I though I had left mercifully behind me - months ago. Maybe if your language was more precise rather than
"uh, eh, where?"
then one might be inclined to respond to your grunts.
I think it someone what disingenuous of someone of such a calibre to play sycophant to his US (?) funders, by omitting to mention a crucial factor when stating that the American’s are incredibly generous people (I do not doubt the statement given my own empirical encounters) but it is somewhat disingenuous (or obtuse) to reify the statement using the GROSS foreign aid donation figure when a PER CAPITA figure is the more normative value used (and more useful in so many ways).
@DrQuijano That is a (quite strange) Americanism. For the majority of the countries in the world, red is the colour of the left and blue (if any) the right. Think Red Russia, Red China, Red Vietnam etc etc.
@DrQuijano I'm with cykolink - though USA has it the other way, in most other countries red is for the left and (maybe) blue on the right. Orange for the more socialized/unionized left, (red and) black for the fascists, green for the environmental, etc.
Here... come, look here look at our sophisticated line of watches that all speakers here at TED personally endorse and wear. You DO wanna be part of the smart, witty and progressive crowd that you know that we are, don't you? Of course you DOOOO! ;) Come join us... welcome, visa mastercard accepted. You know you want to...
Wait a minute! Did this guy just say (at about 16:00) that because he is a journalist that he "naturally" leans to the left of the political spectrum?
I think data visualisation is the new wave that will transform the way we look at the world. Foursquare tells you where you hang out, Sniftag tells you who your dog is seeing and augmented reality adds another layer to reality. What comes after that could be scary: setting standards and automatic adjustments. Coming home and your intelligent house putting up a Michael Bolton song because you seem "stressed".
@GuildyDawg Nothing matters. We live and then we die and nothing really changes. Typically, red is associated with republicans and blue with democrats. This might confuse simple minded American folk (Teabaggers?).
I was schooled in a Private Christian school that watch recorded classrooms on tape and we had supervisers, but my point is that I grew up watching television to learn and same with cable television as a child. Im a History / Discover / Science channel lover.
Nice, Rolex. So if I ever decide to go Scuba Diving in a deep-sea trench, I can rest assured that my Rolex watch will remain perfectly intact and functional, even if I no longer am.
He says USA is very generous of foreign aid but if you investigate the foreign aid programs usually goes to propp up dictators and their cronies.
Even if the foreign aid would actually be used to help the people in need. USA is still not generous compared to other countries who gives a far greater amount of money per capita than USA.
@lordmetroid No, he actually showed that the amount that US citizens give to charity dwarfs their foriegn aid budget. That's what he meant when he used the word 'generous'. Of course there are all kinds of charities, some of which aren't really very charitable.
I know what I couldn't afford, and that is to put on all these talks. The watch costs less than going to a talk, and since it appears to be funding these talks.
So what I don't understand is why people who can't afford to create the talks are angry at a sponsor who is providing some of the funding to make the talks possible. Rolex is paying for the ad space, which keeps it going, like commercial TV. Gratitude is more appropriate than envy.
@IdleGod No, the size of the circle is what indicates google hit ratio, the height is actual evidence. St Johns wort for mental health is hard to objectively measure, but there are definitely studies that show a positive correlation (better then placebo).
@JoesephKatana Go to his website, find the spreadsheet he used. The study he cites has significant flaws. Even if it wasn't flawed, it was only set up to show that it wasn't harmful; meaning you cannot conclude a positive effect from it.
@IdleGod I'm not gonna defend saint johns wort or the presenter, I could care less for either, but there are studies such as the one I described in existence, whether or not they fudged the numbers or followed proper testing procedure in those studies I don't know. Personally I wouldn't use it without further research.
@WeatherManToBe Interesting you point that out, switching between using trillions and billions lends little to the equal comparison of data, often causing people to picture something off by a factor of 1000. Seeing as how that was the primary focus of his presentation, it would be absurd for him to do so.
@WeatherManToBe - Do you not know that words like "trillion" and "billion" have different meanings, depending on your country? Trillion, for the record, may mean either 10^18, or 10^12.
@WeatherManToBe obviously. but he was measuring in units of a billion, which is more convenient to think about, rather than having to convert it in your hand, kind of what the whole talk is about come to think of it
@WeatherManToBe yeah, but he wanted to keep the same units for better comparason. That's the whole point of this lecturesd: presenting data properly. Don't compare apples with oranges.
That's a brilliant design. It's so obvious that you have to wonder why it's not been in use for years. It would be great if there was a search engine which collated all the information and shown it as a graphic comparison.
I've actually tried to make a statistics website that uses a model like that instead of just relying on the X Y model where variables are static and non comparable.
The problem was that there is too much data out there and sorting everything out in the right order takes a huge amount of time and effort, which is why I had to shut it down. Yet still I believe that we will need a software like that in the near future to be able to visualize data and come to new conclusions
@MrDemonshalo Fair play. I'm not entirely sure that it necessarily needs to be incorporated into every bit of data. If it were only used in news, I'm sure it would raise the impact given to certain fact and figures. Just seeing the difference in carbon emissions by the Icelandic volcano and the grounding of planes was quite the eye opener for me.
That certainly will be the case. I was for instance thinking of taking all the data the cia.gov website has through a simple script and then make countries like China & US comparable on all possible scales like x = age, Y = child-mortality, Color = total inhabitant per country and regular Text for additional variable comparison =)
How main question is, how many people would actually use such a service?
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standbyme2012 1 month ago
one of my favourt reds
rogankiwifruit 1 month ago
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Homosexual activists understand the power of words.
Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".
The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationship being discussed.
The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
lightandbeautiful 1 month ago
This video gives data visualization a bad name
warlockjd 3 months ago
why do they always say DATAR
VirtRampage 3 months ago
at 11:00 Thank you.
siausitehopa 5 months ago
GOOD!
GeracaodeValor 7 months ago
LOL at the breakup peak on april fools. "its over"
"OH GOOD ONE HAHA!" "..... no seriously."
tessb 8 months ago
my computer crashed at 00:15 just as he said information overload D:
Ngman316 9 months ago 2
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Ngman316 9 months ago
At 14:26 - Plants, where is WEED?
Btw, why is Green tea both above and below the line?
B1aDK 9 months ago
love that this guy is not only clever and knows what he's saying, but hes a bit of a joker too :')
AbiThePrettyMan 10 months ago 2
what are the programs he uses? and where to get them? does anyone know??
standardguru8 1 year ago
Great work! You're so right: the design of information is very important.
shpensive 1 year ago
HAHA He says douche a couple times
Rotclot 1 year ago
I laughed when I saw 'April Fool's Day'. Hahaha
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emilloZ83 1 year ago
Isn't this a science... Infography? If it ain't, it should be.
And it should be used everywhere.
leonidasx666 1 year ago 2
always love TED.COM
tinytang02 1 year ago
Makes me want to be a data nerd (meant in the nicest way)
weejm1234 1 year ago
where can i find all these graphs and apps?!
funnyj 1 year ago 2
@funnyj i want to know too
rajandharni 1 year ago
@funnyj informationisbeautiful (dot) net
TheZipCode 1 year ago
@funnyj
flabber.nl for example
1TtidnaB 1 year ago
@funnyj Just type in "david mccandless" into google, and check out the first link.
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DonsanUsake569 1 year ago
There is an interesting book by tufte on visualization that folks who liked this might want to browse through
iky300 1 year ago
Wristwatches are for douchbags.
Zotov13 1 year ago
I cannot favorite this harder.
wyvernfire 1 year ago
I agree, that context is very important, but who chooses what's important? I think images are easier to believe, but they contain also way better possibilities of suggesting things that aren't, - even more dangerous than really wrong data, because they might be correct, and still portray and transmit the wrong idea! Think about this for a second. I'd be careful with over rating, and being overly happy with visualised data!
luh2 1 year ago
well that Rolex advert is totally hypnotising
SakuraChama 1 year ago
14:38 only one guy in the back laughs at "douche" like i did
jimmystheman2 1 year ago 6
data ARE the new oil
QabalisticBass 1 year ago
Whenever a british person says 'master' I think of Jedis.
maximusspqr 1 year ago 4
mccandless... david or Christopher McCandless guess depends on how tied up from technology you are
sebacarde 1 year ago
I want eleven thousand nine hundred billion Rolexes
Reimancd 1 year ago
finally, no more sitting 12000 feet deep underwater and not knowing what time it is!
tantarantaran 1 year ago 56
great rolex ad!
the data from the commercial is beautiful
bdcp 1 year ago
1926......Oyster
1931.........Oyster Perpetual
1956......Day-Date
1980s......cell phones come out and Rolex is deemed obsolete......
jennyreineck 1 year ago 5
Might the weekend troughs and Monday peaks be attributable to a lag in status updates, instead of variances in real breakups?
Are status updates overall lower on the weekends? Even if normal status updates are consistent on weekends, I might still believe a lag in breakup status updates due to the alcohol consumption and other behaviors triggered by a breakup, and then you'd update your status first thing at work or in class on Monday!
odouroushouseant 1 year ago 4
@odouroushouseant plausible theory
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3 trillion dollars on a war. That money could have been used towards something important.
Mr420TheBlaze 1 year ago
This is the BEST VIDEO I've seen about this type of information in years. Thanks very much David!
covellz 1 year ago
That bubble graph thing about efficacy of treatments is useless. It doesn't take into account the methodology of each paper, reputation of journal where the paper is being submitted to, origin of paper (alt-med papers in china are usually more positive), funding of paper/research. There are a *huge* amount of things that aren't taken into consideration - it's too much information with zero context. He should have used reviews or meta-analysis, but even then the graphic is useless without context
Hez0 1 year ago
@Hez0 you have no way of knowing he didn't take those factors into account
jim0watkins 1 year ago
Is there a way, where I can download or view the slide or document about the vitamins?
Chris385261 1 year ago
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he sounds gay.
kusubos 1 year ago
17:25 cool!
rudiedirkx 1 year ago
He's very good at this... Excellent content also! :)
rudiedirkx 1 year ago
so, it's all "let's make information look pretty enough that you put it up in a gallery, with better layout that make people pay attnetion". Surely what you need to be doing is giving the cold hard facts if you're presenting some very important imformation to some very important people (execs, business men etc), not spending ages making a pretty layout to put it all on? Seems a bit bizarre and not very important, and wouldn't really make much of a difference anway, but I'll go along with it.
DeadWhiteButterflies 1 year ago
@DeadWhiteButterflies Are you deaf and blind? Dont you see how using good design makes everything easier to comprehend, thus you can give a shorter or more clear talk.
stoyashot 1 year ago
06:18 so funny
jiopjiop 1 year ago
6:20 :D
t3hStorm 1 year ago
I don't know where he got his bandwidth figures of computer devices at 09:25, but they're all vastly off the mark.
It shows:
1250 MB/s - same bandwidth as a computer network
125 MB/s - USB key
12.5 MB/s - hard disk
A computer network is a rather vague description, but 1000 Mbit/s (125 MB/s) is the fastest consumer level network card speed.
USB 2.0 is limited to 60MB/s. Most USB keys transfer at a max of ~30 MB/s.
A hard disk transfers at up to ~150 MB/s.
Where did he get these numbers?
brinstar117 1 year ago
@brinstar117 Well, these numbers surely aren't really exact. But you are also pretty vague comparing it to 'consumer level network cards' (why do you expact consumer level here). And hard discs with 150 MB/s? They exist, but not on 'consumer level' (which usually does not have SSD). So you both compare different things that cannot really be compared. ;)
Kn1bbl 1 year ago
I disagree about the military numbers. What's important in a military is how much damage it can do to other nations, not how much money is available to be spent, or how many people AREN'T in it. When you get down to it, a military only represents and acts on the orders of its government (if that) and is not accountable to the people at all.
rg0057 1 year ago
Rolex Deepsea.I bet Aquaman has one.
drout0 1 year ago
Excellent stuff, really gets you thinking.
ImDrizzt 1 year ago
It would be AWESOME to visually see were our personal money goes
arhabersham 1 year ago 27
@arhabersham try mint.com
aboxofjosh 1 year ago
@arhabersham isn't this what Mint.com is working towards?
Arct1c 1 year ago
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Arct1c 1 year ago
@arhabersham use mint.com dude! it was an eye opener for me
superwesman 1 year ago 2
@arhabersham check out mint.com! it does just that!
natedaub 10 months ago
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@arhabersham
"It would be AWESOME to visually see were our personal money goes"
down the crapper.
xjustamem0ryx 8 months ago in playlist 2011 ones to watch
@arhabersham
I know there is a site out there that tracks dollar bills. It works by you registering a number and writing on the bill, and then you register the bill, you geo tag it and you can see where the bill has been before you. Trying googling it.
Centribo 8 months ago
@arhabersham easy. pay slip + bank statement + excel spreadsheet + graph maker
RudeTubers 7 months ago
@arhabersham ...in relationship to satisfaction?
AClarke2007 2 weeks ago
Calefacient piece of stuff, this is!
emperorniks17 1 year ago
He has some pretty pictures.
GMmarine 1 year ago
sorry... I dont find his data visuals to be beautiful
Cannibalzz 1 year ago
cont...
The USA gives, per capita roughly $1.2 pa – contrast this with the roughly $4 that the UK gives, a similar figure to France. Seen in this light the majority of average Europeans (with several notable exceptions) donates roughly three-four times as much as the average American.
Source CIA World FactBook
Origen305 1 year ago
@Origen305 Ironically all this proves is that visual data can be jsut as easily manipulated as text data.
KGR89 1 year ago 3
@KGR89
I couldn't agree more
It is ironic in the sense that this guy is trying to ‘shaft’ one with statistics in ways you never thought possible. The Obsequious Lackey with the gall to use the same PowerPoint magic to show OPEC = bad, US=Best, US army small and dainty, North Korea = military Behemoth . Can we arrange for Rosling to school this child.
We need a save TED campaign!!!
Origen305 1 year ago
huh
wasdwasdedsf 10 months ago
theres no bad data. its correct information, people not understanding things is not relevant. and I dont see difference between visual and nonevisual
wasdwasdedsf 10 months ago
@wasdwasdedsf
"There are lies, damn lies, then there are Statistics" First Lord Acton
No one is questioning the data, but rather its use....or misuse, and obsequise presentation.
Origen305 10 months ago
eh
where
wasdwasdedsf 10 months ago
@wasdwasdedsf
Reqd my comments, qnd those of others. I am not inclined to show you the obvious in a video I though I had left mercifully behind me - months ago. Maybe if your language was more precise rather than
"uh, eh, where?"
then one might be inclined to respond to your grunts.
Origen305 10 months ago
I think it someone what disingenuous of someone of such a calibre to play sycophant to his US (?) funders, by omitting to mention a crucial factor when stating that the American’s are incredibly generous people (I do not doubt the statement given my own empirical encounters) but it is somewhat disingenuous (or obtuse) to reify the statement using the GROSS foreign aid donation figure when a PER CAPITA figure is the more normative value used (and more useful in so many ways).
cont...
Origen305 1 year ago
"When you're lost in information, an information map is kinda useful." Indeed.
nothingnesswithouten 1 year ago
dude got the colors wrong. left = blue. red = right.
DrQuijano 1 year ago
@DrQuijano That is a (quite strange) Americanism. For the majority of the countries in the world, red is the colour of the left and blue (if any) the right. Think Red Russia, Red China, Red Vietnam etc etc.
cykolink 1 year ago 3
@DrQuijano I'm with cykolink - though USA has it the other way, in most other countries red is for the left and (maybe) blue on the right. Orange for the more socialized/unionized left, (red and) black for the fascists, green for the environmental, etc.
SwobyJ 1 year ago 2
@DrQuijano it depends whether your from Uk or USA doesn't it. Information is beautiful do versions for each.
syntaxpromo 1 year ago
"Let the dataset change your mindset."
Nice one!
KREVwon 1 year ago
3000, billion for the wars !! damn the warmongers.
yourtube20061 1 year ago
Here... come, look here look at our sophisticated line of watches that all speakers here at TED personally endorse and wear. You DO wanna be part of the smart, witty and progressive crowd that you know that we are, don't you? Of course you DOOOO! ;) Come join us... welcome, visa mastercard accepted. You know you want to...
nonz3r0 1 year ago
@nonz3r0 u can say the same about nearly all products starting with an "i" !!!
yourtube20061 1 year ago
@nonz3r0
'The smart witty and progressive crowd' - I want in got the watch, but which suit, what hairstyle and which font is my favorite?
TED's quality nose-dive plays out worse than Gibbons 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'.
Origen305 1 year ago
Here's a visualization. Huge block labeled "Bullshit from David McCandles" Small block labeled "Amount of FUCK I give!"
IlovemyGlock21 1 year ago
War & Fraud - insanity for all to see
bvrcrap56 1 year ago 2
Wait a minute! Did this guy just say (at about 16:00) that because he is a journalist that he "naturally" leans to the left of the political spectrum?
steve0281 1 year ago
Reminds me of playing with google trends :)
LeMegasandwich 1 year ago 2
So. In essence, this guy grabs things from info threads on 4chan and posts it around? :P
4unknown 1 year ago
I had a breakup two weeks before Christmas. Turns out to be a popular time. Who knew.
dar482 1 year ago 2
LOL@ all the people replying to me....
I'M SORRY I KNOW MY DIGIT PLACE VALUES AND ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE!!
Oh and, USD is the unit, not billion or trillion.
WeatherManToBe 1 year ago
The military budget is $1T, not 600 billion according to a peer reviewed study in 2009.
christo930 1 year ago
Caron Neutral Volcano ftw
Storhonta 1 year ago
I think data visualisation is the new wave that will transform the way we look at the world. Foursquare tells you where you hang out, Sniftag tells you who your dog is seeing and augmented reality adds another layer to reality. What comes after that could be scary: setting standards and automatic adjustments. Coming home and your intelligent house putting up a Michael Bolton song because you seem "stressed".
doloppost 1 year ago
His billion dollar thing is wrong however, some boxes of say, 20 billion, are much bigger or smaller than others of the same value.
Morriusvids 1 year ago
Does the Rolex add remind anyone else of Zoolander - "water is the essence of wetness, wetness is the essence of beauty"
I love data visualisations BTW - makes me wanna be a data analyst!
DeviantincTV 1 year ago
Douche.
Frozenyak 1 year ago 4
that rolex ad is class
psalib89 1 year ago
Left RED and Right BLUE?! What world is tis?
happysplodie 1 year ago
@happysplodie He's British, our 'Left' is socialist hence Red. Our 'Right' is conservative (also with a upper case C) hence Blue.
lonetallsassy 1 year ago
@happysplodie
It's the case in pretty much every country in the world. There is a reason why the flag of the soviet union and china are in red.
tubebunny7 1 year ago
DOUCHE
shlarl 1 year ago
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shlarl 1 year ago
douche
grimshawr 1 year ago
rolex? really?
PVanderston 1 year ago
@Santi2c So where's it come from in the first place?
SamSpade2010 1 year ago
Interesting
Kommaseir 1 year ago
douche
DimitriGoryenko 1 year ago 2
First off, why is the right red and the left blue? And where can i see these infogrpahics? they look very intriguing.
braap02 1 year ago
@braap02 does it fucking matter?
GuildyDawg 1 year ago
@GuildyDawg Nothing matters. We live and then we die and nothing really changes. Typically, red is associated with republicans and blue with democrats. This might confuse simple minded American folk (Teabaggers?).
braap02 1 year ago
Profiteering = where the money comes from in the first place
SamSpade2010 1 year ago
Very good video of data !
thank
didikh 1 year ago
I was schooled in a Private Christian school that watch recorded classrooms on tape and we had supervisers, but my point is that I grew up watching television to learn and same with cable television as a child. Im a History / Discover / Science channel lover.
TurboGC8 1 year ago
douche; how apt
tdreamgmail 1 year ago
14:44 Douche!
andrew12361 1 year ago
How about a visual representation linking religious belief with lack of education,
lmhjs1000 1 year ago 3
@lmhjs1000 Is it just me or Does Hans Wilsdorf look abit like the great late Heath Ledger, lol
lmhjs1000 1 year ago
at 2:35 he says "douche"... the appropriate sound effect.
xNickTheBrickx 1 year ago
lets see if everyone can handle truth?
frvfilms 1 year ago
Nice, Rolex. So if I ever decide to go Scuba Diving in a deep-sea trench, I can rest assured that my Rolex watch will remain perfectly intact and functional, even if I no longer am.
takigan 1 year ago 87
@takigan - Look on the bright side. At least people would have a reason to recover your body ;-)
TheSpankymonkey 1 year ago
@takigan but if you stop the watch right before you die they'll know exactly when you died
SobaniForce 1 year ago
@takigan I respect a watch that is more badass than me.
(That's not very much, but still. It's very hard for a watch.)
greifocs 1 year ago
@takigan i would thank rolex for making ted possible
clemofish 1 year ago
Amazing, Thanks David McCandless for doing this. Let the Truth prevail always!
DJTmaq 1 year ago
the speech shows too little of visualization but too much of statistics, fail!
samiminh 1 year ago
He says USA is very generous of foreign aid but if you investigate the foreign aid programs usually goes to propp up dictators and their cronies.
Even if the foreign aid would actually be used to help the people in need. USA is still not generous compared to other countries who gives a far greater amount of money per capita than USA.
lordmetroid 1 year ago 2
@lordmetroid No, he actually showed that the amount that US citizens give to charity dwarfs their foriegn aid budget. That's what he meant when he used the word 'generous'. Of course there are all kinds of charities, some of which aren't really very charitable.
colourmegone 1 year ago
Why is the intro so fucking loud?! dammit
mikeyman211 1 year ago
@mikeyman211 HAS IT GOT YOUR ATTENTION NOW
mynes120 1 year ago
I wonder how many threads per square inch are in his jacket...
nathanwilefrazier 1 year ago
Program ends at 18:14
startreking2007 1 year ago 70
Rolex, thank you for helping fund these talks.
I don't even own a watch, but out of gratitude that you are funding this sort of talk, I'm sure my next watch will be a Rolex.
neoaeonian 1 year ago 4
@neoaeonian
you wont be able to afford it
psalib89 1 year ago
@psalib89 Re: able to afford the Rolex
I know what I couldn't afford, and that is to put on all these talks. The watch costs less than going to a talk, and since it appears to be funding these talks.
So what I don't understand is why people who can't afford to create the talks are angry at a sponsor who is providing some of the funding to make the talks possible. Rolex is paying for the ad space, which keeps it going, like commercial TV. Gratitude is more appropriate than envy.
neoaeonian 1 year ago 2
1:15 Where the f*ck is the color red, he is referring to? I can spot a pink.
psilocyberspaceman 1 year ago
ban sick commercial.....
ppnnlearning 1 year ago
A Rolex is a piece of jewelry, nothing more. I can't afford one, but hating on people that can is pathetic.
MrBranboom 1 year ago
2 green teas
TheLiberalSoup 1 year ago 3
@TheLiberalSoup saw that too
Mekilae 1 year ago
Great Ted talk. Rolex however can piss off, we have cellphones now that tell us the time and do a thousand other things more than their stupid watch.
Phyrexious 1 year ago 4
That was an epic Rolex commercial at the end O.o
KnightsofEmerald 1 year ago
carbon neutral volcan! haha
KnightsofEmerald 1 year ago
4chan info thread anyone?
NikiDaDude 1 year ago 2
The graph can't possibly be correct, the evidence for St. Johns Wort isn't "strong"
Doazic 1 year ago
@Doazic I think he considers anecdotes as evidence; the number of positive google testimonials. Aka, hes full of sh*t.
IdleGod 1 year ago
@IdleGod No, the size of the circle is what indicates google hit ratio, the height is actual evidence. St Johns wort for mental health is hard to objectively measure, but there are definitely studies that show a positive correlation (better then placebo).
JoesephKatana 1 year ago
@JoesephKatana Go to his website, find the spreadsheet he used. The study he cites has significant flaws. Even if it wasn't flawed, it was only set up to show that it wasn't harmful; meaning you cannot conclude a positive effect from it.
IdleGod 1 year ago
@IdleGod I'm not gonna defend saint johns wort or the presenter, I could care less for either, but there are studies such as the one I described in existence, whether or not they fudged the numbers or followed proper testing procedure in those studies I don't know. Personally I wouldn't use it without further research.
JoesephKatana 1 year ago
Does this guy not know that 1 thousand billion is a trillion?
WeatherManToBe 1 year ago
@WeatherManToBe Interesting you point that out, switching between using trillions and billions lends little to the equal comparison of data, often causing people to picture something off by a factor of 1000. Seeing as how that was the primary focus of his presentation, it would be absurd for him to do so.
JoesephKatana 1 year ago 2
@WeatherManToBe - Do you not know that words like "trillion" and "billion" have different meanings, depending on your country? Trillion, for the record, may mean either 10^18, or 10^12.
47f0 1 year ago
@WeatherManToBe obviously. but he was measuring in units of a billion, which is more convenient to think about, rather than having to convert it in your hand, kind of what the whole talk is about come to think of it
hcortens 1 year ago
@WeatherManToBe yeah, but he wanted to keep the same units for better comparason. That's the whole point of this lecturesd: presenting data properly. Don't compare apples with oranges.
KnightsofEmerald 1 year ago
@WeatherManToBe Of course he knows, I'm sure he did it on purpose.
DeletedDelusion 1 year ago
@WeatherManToBe What's easier to visualize and compare?
1 trillion and 20 billion?
or 1,000 billion and 20 billion.
sexyloser 1 year ago
That's a brilliant design. It's so obvious that you have to wonder why it's not been in use for years. It would be great if there was a search engine which collated all the information and shown it as a graphic comparison.
ShallowBeThyGames 1 year ago
@ShallowBeThyGames and think of the pornography organisation!
hcortens 1 year ago
@hcortens Something tells me that graphic would be big and dick-shaped ;)
ShallowBeThyGames 1 year ago
@ShallowBeThyGames
I've actually tried to make a statistics website that uses a model like that instead of just relying on the X Y model where variables are static and non comparable.
The problem was that there is too much data out there and sorting everything out in the right order takes a huge amount of time and effort, which is why I had to shut it down. Yet still I believe that we will need a software like that in the near future to be able to visualize data and come to new conclusions
MrDemonshalo 1 year ago
@MrDemonshalo Fair play. I'm not entirely sure that it necessarily needs to be incorporated into every bit of data. If it were only used in news, I'm sure it would raise the impact given to certain fact and figures. Just seeing the difference in carbon emissions by the Icelandic volcano and the grounding of planes was quite the eye opener for me.
ShallowBeThyGames 1 year ago
@ShallowBeThyGames
That certainly will be the case. I was for instance thinking of taking all the data the cia.gov website has through a simple script and then make countries like China & US comparable on all possible scales like x = age, Y = child-mortality, Color = total inhabitant per country and regular Text for additional variable comparison =)
How main question is, how many people would actually use such a service?
MrDemonshalo 1 year ago
data means knowledge ... and knowledge, as everyone knows, is power. But I'd never thought I'd say data equals beauty.
BrewmasterFuzzball 1 year ago
I can see the next generation of apps for the internet with all of it's data. WOW!
joelito101 1 year ago