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A small comparison of catastrophies - in India and the States

Inches of rain in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina - 18
Inches of rain in Mumbai (July 27th) - 37.1

Population of New Orleans - 484,674
Population of Mumbai - 12,622,500

Deaths in New Orleans within 48 hours of Katrina - 100
Deaths in Mumbai within 48 hours of rain - 37

Number of people to be evacuated in New Orleans - entire city... wohh
Number of people evacuated in Mumbai - 10,000

Cases of shooting and violence in New Orleans - countless
Cases of shooting and violence in Mumbai - NONE

Time taken for US army to reach New Orleans - 48 hours
Time taken for Indian army and navy to reach Mumbai - 12 hours

Status 48 hours later - New Orleans is still waiting for relief, army and electricty
Status 48 hours later - Mumbai is back on its feet and is business is as usual

USA - world's most developed nation
India - third world country

I saw this in the Sunday Bangalore Vijay times, but can't find it on their page. The sky fell: A meter of rain fell in Bombay in one day, and shit held together. The military rolled in immediately. Order was maintained... in what is one of the most corrupt and impoverished countries on planet earth, in a city with the world's largest slums that contain the most concentrated abject poverty anywhere.

But we couldn't handle a similar task. Who's developed again?

The comparison is imperfect: Bombay/Mumbai is above sea level. But had the military not rolled in, the story would have almost certainly been the same as in New Orleans. Leave it to... the government of India...???... to take care of its people.

Me confused.

Comparison of catastrophies - Katrina V Mumbai Flooding

Caution: Risk of Personal Injury

Standard warning symbols often ignore or overlook the complexity of human actions, and the complexity of the injuries, both physical and psychological, that can arise from these actions.

To protect others from complex injuries, I designed the Personal Injury Warning System in 1994, and adapted it for the web in 1998.

Each symbol is based on an injury I have received, and indexed by the date that I would have benefitted from such a warning.

Hahahahaha! A student of Edward Tufte makes a graphical funny.
Favorites: http://www.13pt.com/piws/9209.html
http://www.13pt.com/piws/9309.html
http://www.13pt.com/piws/0004.html Hahahaha rootored
http://www.13pt.com/piws/0109.html 9-11

13pt | Personal Injury Warning System

"Somebody asked George H.W. Bush Monday about the criticism of his son's handling of Hurricane Katrina, and the former president said that the critics ought to tell it to his wife -- and that they ought to don a flak jacket before trying. But this morning, it's Barbara Bush herself who might want to think about some protective clothing, at least metaphorically speaking.

The former first lady toured the Astrodome Monday, and along the way she opined that many of the refugees from New Orleans were so poor to begin with that they ought to be pretty happy with their temporary digs in Houston. "What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in comments first aired on the public radio program "Marketplace" and reprinted by Editor & Publisher. "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

In the midst of that last line, you can hear the former first lady chuckling."

There just aren't words, really, to say how tactless that was.

Yes there are: C U N T

Barbara Bush on those lucky refugees

At this moderated forum, I will answer questions dealing with information design. Others can then extend the discussion. I will try to answer questions that have general interest or where I have something to say. Not all questions will be answered, usually because I don't know the answer.

Edward Tufte, the Mozart of Data Visualization, answers your questions...

Edward Tufte: Ask E.T. forum

With OmniGraffle, it's as easy as dragging and dropping to create flow charts, org charts, network diagrams, family trees, project processes, office layouts - anything you can think of that can be represented by symbols and lines.

OmniGraffle knows what makes a diagram different from a drawing, so it knows how to help you make superior documents quickly: it keeps lines connected to shapes even when they're moved, it provides palettes full of objects for you to drag and drop, and it can magically organize diagrams with just one click.

This is the best diagramming software on Planet Earth. It boots Visio in the pants.

The Omni Group - Applications - OmniGraffle

This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information. The book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. Topics include escaping flatland, color and information, micro/macro designs, layering and separation, small multiples, and narratives. Winner of 17 awards for design and content. 400 illustrations with exquisite 6- to 12-color printing throughout. Highest quality design and production.

UberBook.

Edward Tufte: Books - Envisioning Information

Here's one of many examples: The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S.S. Bataan, equipped with six operating rooms, hundreds of hospital beds and the ability to produce 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day, has been sitting off the Gulf Coast since last Monday - without patients.

Pathetic.

Killed by Contempt - New York Times

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This place has the worst, slowest loading, piece of dogshit web page ever. In fact, I had trouble memeing them because their index page contains no text. Fuck their webmaster.

Still... useful source of information, albeit expensive.

Alacra Business Research

public final class Math
extends Object

The class Math contains methods for performing basic numeric operations such as the elementary exponential, logarithm, square root, and trigonometric functions.

Good to know.

Math (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)