Examples of Comparisons
Course subject(s)
2. Comparisons
Take some time to think about the examples and try to imagine how you would make comparisons like these and how you can implement the different ways of comparing and visualising in your daily work.
The examples are ‘real-life’ tweets from all over the world.
Have fun thinking about these examples!
Pack of cards
In this video Stephen Fry illustrates in a beautiful way what the chance is to shuffle a pack of cards twice in the same order.
Take a look at the video and enjoy. Then look at the video once again and analyse how he tries to make the ‘unimaginable large number’ more understandable.
Gravitational Waves
In February 2016, there was a huge breakthrough in science. For the first time gravitational waves were detected. The media reported on this news and the phenomena were very difficult to imagine for the general public. This tweet tries to explain these phenomena…
Groundbreaking physics: Scientists detect #gravitationalwaves using the @LIGO observatory https://t.co/7bG5dSvOT9 pic.twitter.com/PMT1tk3VSq
— MIT (@MIT) February 11, 2016
If the tweet cannot be seen, you can find a screen film+capture of it here.
The size of the black hole
Animation showing the size of the black hole as massive as 12 billion of our suns discovered in February.
— SpaceVerse (@SpaceVerseTM) October 22, 2015
The correct distance between the moon and earth
The correct distance between the moon and Earth. pic.twitter.com/ZuJWfAyCGY
— Austin Braun (@Braun23Austin) January 9, 2016
If the tweet cannot be seen, you can find a screen capture of it here.
Transport
Framing #communicatie pic.twitter.com/bksmFYf72m
— @paulstamsnijder (@reputatiegroep) November 8, 2015
If the tweet cannot be seen, you can find a screen capture of it here.
Science vs Engineering
Learn Something (@EarnKnowledge) December 19, 2015
That vertical change is the height of the Empire State Building
James Balog in Chasing Ice, National Geographic: ‘that vertical change is the height of the Empire State Building’. pic.twitter.com/WuPK3gs2nG
— DelftVisualX (@DelftVisualX) December 13, 2015
If the tweet cannot be seen, you can find a screen capture of it here.
Worldmap
5% of the world population lives in the blue regions.
5% lives in the red region. pic.twitter.com/r6645RsdGp
— Amazing Maps™ (@amazingmap) September 11, 2015
If the tweet cannot be seen, you can find a screen capture of it here.
Brilliant illustration of how much space we have given to cars.
RT @JonathanBowcott: might like this “@DewanMKarim: Brilliant illustration of how much space we have given to cars pic.twitter.com/BHL3jv4GiZ”
— George Ferguson (@GeorgeFergusonx) November 17, 2014
If the tweet cannot be seen, you can find a screen capture of it here.
World’s lightest material
microlattice metal is the ‘world’s lightest #material‘ according to Boeing @Dezeenhttp://t.co/0lf0NFHsjYpic.twitter.com/BF0Pvwgvoo
— Modelo (@Modelo_io) October 16, 2015
If the tweet cannot be seen, you can find a screen capture of it here.
Comparison in one sentence
“A nanometer is to a meter what a football is to the entire earth.” https://t.co/t8hjdDBjOZpic.twitter.com/uaKJS8zRXl
— DelftVisualX (@DelftVisualX) November 7, 2015
If the tweet cannot be seen, you can find a screen capture of it here.
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