For one year, two award-winning information designers, Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, living on different sides of the Atlantic, sent each other postcards for a project titled ‘Dear Data’. But they weren’t your usual postcards, they were hand-drawn infographic postcards. “Each week, and for a year, we collected and measured […]
Rihanna has knocked Eminem off the top spot as most-liked celeb on Facebook. At press time, the Barbadian singer has 61,564,736 fans, while the rapper stands at 61,217,673, according to Starcount, a data aggregator that measures social-media popularity. Slim Shady reigned as king of the social network since surpassing Lady […]
Of all the major social networks having an impact on this year’s presidential election, Pinterest is the newest. And while some of the once-red-hot buzz around the image-sharing network has died down, both the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns maintain an active presence there. But which candidate is more […]
Which Olympic moments and events made Twitter users in the U.K. smile most? Heptathlete Jessica Ennis, tennis star Andy Murray and distance runner Mo Farah all brought loads of joy to their fellow countrymen during the Games, according to new data from the utility company EDF Energy. You may have […]