Charts & Twitter
This chart looks at some basic terminology that is commonly used on the social media site Twitter. The platform operates differently in that a user can become popular and trending just by using text. Twitter does give the users the option to use media like photos or film yet, the site can be seen more like a chat site like Reddit rather than a “social media” site similar to Instagram or TikTok respectively. Twitter is a great site to get interesting news very quickly and an example is the use of “topics” on the app. Topics are just cultural items you would be interested in. The terminology being focused on in the chart can show what is the most important aspects of an account becoming popular on the site. Yes, followers are the main key to being a large account but, the accounts that continue to remain popular stay there but engaging with followers and allowing for the content to come to them. Being tagged and having a community of followers to feed the large account's content allow for those same accounts to remain so popular.
Numbers are hard at times. Everyone has some confusion when dealing with a certain math problem. And there can be some problems with numbers. Our brains can be tricked when seeing a fraction next to a decimal and think one or the either is greater, yet both the non-integers equate to the same value. It is a visual trick forcing the brain to choose between each instead of recognizing the equal value. One discovery with helping readers on this issue includes graphs and charts when describing data or using large portions of numbers. These graphs can act as a visual aid instead of a trick and can efficiently display the information proved.
Going off the last paragraph and looking at the example of a graph helping to organize a group of different numbers. The chart is looking at the difference between the statistically best and worst quarterback for the National Football League in the year 2018. The title of the best statistical QB for that year respectively belongs to Drew Brees while the title of worst QB of the same calendar year is Josh Rosen. We can begin the chart by comparing the touchdowns and interceptions (turnovers) by each Quarterback. Drew Bress had a strong year throwing for thirty-two touchdowns with only five interceptions all year. Josh Rosen, unfortunately, starts off weak by having more interceptions than turnovers within the season. The category of sacks looks at how many times the QB was hit before throwing the ball and it shows a huge lead for Josh Rosen. Completion percentage is looking at the percentage of an average throw by that QB being completed. A perfect 100% is very rare but most attempts above two-thirds are seen as top tier. Finally, the category of QBR (Quarterback Rating) evaluates the QB based on how their whole game affects the game played. An average score for this category is around fifty and anything near one hundred is seen as elite. As per the chart, Drew Brees is in the elite tiers for most categories while Josh Rosen would be lucky to crack the top half of the league respectively.
Finally, this chart looks at the effect a recession may have on an economy. There have been times in history where a recession was in effect and hurting most economies. But this chart shows a larger trend of recessions seems to appears more frequently and keep having a more increasing effect on the number of jobs lost after each recession. The economy does seem to slowly boom after a sudden loss of jobs yet that may be whats causing more frequent recessions.
