TAO LIN | BLOG

1/29/09

i made this

an alternate design can be viewed here

books mentioned can be viewed here, here, here, here, here

17 Comments:

ryan manning said...: informative; 3:26 PM
Darian James said...: & pretty; 4:15 PM
andy.riverbed said...: too much time.; 5:27 PM
Chris said...: i would very much be interested in seeing the raw data

perhaps a spreadsheet in excel used to generate these graphs

perhaps you could do a chart based on the mention of hamsters by month on this blog against the number of single word comments left on that particular months?
(this could be illustrated through different colour and size hamsters); 6:33 PM
Spec of sawdust said...: that non-existed book will be good.
one of the best depressing books.
this chart is good, make another one.; 7:01 PM
dottie kee bones said...: this one reminds me of candy. the other one reminded me of a party.; 9:12 PM
mi said...: processed a medium amount of the information before i noticed the word stupid; 10:57 PM
Bob Duvet said...: I'm partial to pie graphs but I'm rooted in the old school...; 12:20 AM
B. Garbee said...: I like the idea of a writer starting off a new project from a chart like this. He would stop the writing process once a week to make sure that his work was keeping with the pre-set "level of detachment" or "a 12-year-old can enjoy it, I feel."; 1:23 AM
colin bassett said...: you should do this for other books and publish them as 'reviews'; 1:55 AM
Tao Lin said...: chris, the graph was generated 'manually'

i could do that hamster chart

i should colin, i keep expecting bookforum to email me wanting to pay me to do that; 3:35 AM
Mike z said...: The watermark made me laugh in that "I'm not laughing out loud" sort of way.; 4:24 AM
Tao Lin said...: i spent more time on the watermark than the graph i think, or almost more time, like equal time or nearly equal time maybe; 4:42 AM
em said...: i came back for more exposed flesh but look at you! crankin' out the graphs, measuring successes, takin' down the body parts.
i like the sleek, black "stupid haha" alternate version, i think it really conveys product analysis to the full extent.; 6:12 PM
BlogSloth said...: I think the trick works best ONCE.; 9:16 PM
Tao Lin said...: i like the black one also

but it looks goth, i feel like i'm in hot topic if i look at it

blogsloth, i am aware the second graph decreased the quality, i feel, of both graphs, but i feel that i have a plan to 'redeem' the choice of a second graph; 8:08 AM
Evan Baer said...: *fantastic* . i love it.; 3:16 PM