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Give me an actual number. I have no clue what the scale really is other than visually or by diving the x since by current time elapsed

by bherms 13y ago

andrewmunsell 13y ago
Yeah, I was looking for a number too.
- bargl 13y ago
  There's a number on the left below the name and a time you've been there at the top, but I don't see an actual number for likes/second. You either have to calculate it or count the pics. They do a straight multiplication so the number doesn't appear to be pulled dynamically from any of the sites. I.E. You can take the total and the time you've been there, do a little division and get the number per second without having to count. EDIT: Also if you refresh the page near skype, reddit or any of the others and wait 1 second it'll show you the rate before it's modified by the time you've been on the page.
aprescott 13y ago
You can at least look at the difference each second, when the figures update.
- nostromo 13y ago
  Even that was difficult because there was no thousands separator. It normally takes me a moment to understand that 3697893 is three million and not three hundred thousand. It's even worse if that number keeps changing. (Perhaps it's just me because I'm mildly dyslexic.) Cool project though!
sixothree 13y ago
A number with a link to the citation would be even better.
pydave 13y ago
I assumed that was a bug. Especially since the text says "Reddit votes cast" which implies "X Reddit votes cast" instead of "Reddit votes cast [visualization of a number]".
Aco- 13y ago
> $('div.info-graphic').each(function(i) { console.log($(this).data('image')+' = '+$(this).data('count')); }); /img/reddit.gif = 197 /img/instagram.gif = 463 /img/tumblr.gif = 833 /img/skype.gif = 1024 /img/twitter.gif = 3935 /img/dropbox.gif = 11574 /img/google.gif = 33333 /img/youtube.gif = 46333 /img/facebook.gif = 52083 /img/email.gif = 1666666 Those are the number of actions per second per each service. I am surprised that for an audience such as hackernews that no one knew to read the source
- bherms 13y ago
  However, when building an infographic, the information is meant to be displayed in a useful and interesting way. Shouldn't be a puzzle to be deciphered.
- devgutt 13y ago
  also elinks -source http://onesecond.designly.com/ | grep "\/\w*\.gif\"\ data-count='[0-9]*'" -o
erikpukinskis 13y ago
I'm a little surprised I have to explain this, but the point of the visualization is for you to experience the scale. Did you scroll all the way to the end of the page? Then you felt the data, which was the author's goal. It's one thing to know how far it is through the Hundred-Mile Wilderness, but it's another thing to experience it and to know for yourself how far that is.
- bherms 13y ago
  But before/after you've experienced it, you should know how far it was, otherwise all you know is subjective, with no actual way to gauge it. "That felt really damn far" is kinda worthless unless you can say, "Wow, 100 miles felt really damn far" because then you can judge other distances.

Give me an actual number. I have no clue what the scale really is other than visually or by diving the x since by current time elapsed

by bherms 13y ago

Give me an actual number. I have no clue what the scale really is other than visually or by diving the x since by current time elapsed

andrewmunsell 13y ago

Yeah, I was looking for a number too.

bargl 13y ago
There's a number on the left below the name and a time you've been there at the top, but I don't see an actual number for likes/second. You either have to calculate it or count the pics. They do a straight multiplication so the number doesn't appear to be pulled dynamically from any of the sites. I.E. You can take the total and the time you've been there, do a little division and get the number per second without having to count. EDIT: Also if you refresh the page near skype, reddit or any of the others and wait 1 second it'll show you the rate before it's modified by the time you've been on the page.

aprescott 13y ago

You can at least look at the difference each second, when the figures update.

nostromo 13y ago
Even that was difficult because there was no thousands separator. It normally takes me a moment to understand that 3697893 is three million and not three hundred thousand. It's even worse if that number keeps changing. (Perhaps it's just me because I'm mildly dyslexic.) Cool project though!

sixothree 13y ago

A number with a link to the citation would be even better.

pydave 13y ago

I assumed that was a bug. Especially since the text says "Reddit votes cast" which implies "X Reddit votes cast" instead of "Reddit votes cast [visualization of a number]".

Aco- 13y ago

> $('div.info-graphic').each(function(i) { console.log($(this).data('image')+' = '+$(this).data('count')); }); /img/reddit.gif = 197 /img/instagram.gif = 463 /img/tumblr.gif = 833 /img/skype.gif = 1024 /img/twitter.gif = 3935 /img/dropbox.gif = 11574 /img/google.gif = 33333 /img/youtube.gif = 46333 /img/facebook.gif = 52083 /img/email.gif = 1666666 Those are the number of actions per second per each service. I am surprised that for an audience such as hackernews that no one knew to read the source

bherms 13y ago
However, when building an infographic, the information is meant to be displayed in a useful and interesting way. Shouldn't be a puzzle to be deciphered.
devgutt 13y ago
also elinks -source http://onesecond.designly.com/ | grep "\/\w*\.gif\"\ data-count='[0-9]*'" -o

erikpukinskis 13y ago

I'm a little surprised I have to explain this, but the point of the visualization is for you to experience the scale. Did you scroll all the way to the end of the page? Then you felt the data, which was the author's goal. It's one thing to know how far it is through the Hundred-Mile Wilderness, but it's another thing to experience it and to know for yourself how far that is.

bherms 13y ago
But before/after you've experienced it, you should know how far it was, otherwise all you know is subjective, with no actual way to gauge it. "That felt really damn far" is kinda worthless unless you can say, "Wow, 100 miles felt really damn far" because then you can judge other distances.