The name of the economic game is efficiency. And that means optimising things. Happy Friday.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Optimisation Prime
Tag: xkcd
Crashes
I only wish there was something about train wrecks in here. But that might require another axis.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Who Gets the Jewellery in the Divorce?
I’m still freaking out over Brexit. So enjoy this Friday with this four-quadrant chart from xkcd. Relevant because of references to the crown jewels of the United Kingdom.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Productive Fridays
Funny story, a virus hit my workplace this week. And it basically cost us four days of work because nobody could actually access their work files. That made me remember this recent piece from xkcd, which is so very apropos at the end of this week.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Identifying the Age of a Map
Don’t you just hate it when you stumble upon a map, but you cannot place the time period of the geographies? Well if you haven’t, who cares, because xkcd has a great flowchart to help you anyway.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Justifying Text
I am not a big fan of fully justified text. I get it, in things like newspaper and narrow blocks of copy, it can make sense. Although in those situations, again, personal preference is flush left ragged right. But, for when you do have to fully justify your text, xkcd has a guide to deal with those tricky situations where you have very few characters on a line.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Complex Algorithms
Happy Friday, all. Today’s piece is funny, but also hits fairly close to home. Not that I live in or near Nebraska. But I work near Excel spreadsheets.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
The United States of America
Well today is Friday, so let’s leave the politics of this week behind and just enjoy the great United States of America.
Wait a minute…
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Pipelines of Consumption
It’s Friday, everybody. Let’s take a bit of a break from the election stuff of this past week and look at the pipelines of your liquid consumption.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
What to do With All the Nukes
Admittedly today’s piece fails to deliver on the data visualisation and information design spectrum. But I found it hilarious and apropos to this week’s content.
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.