Do you remember way back when, in grade school, as an excuse for poor performance, students would say "well I'm a visual learner." And then I suppose sometime in the 80s or 90s it became accepted that some people have an easier time understanding concepts if they don't have to pull the meaning out of pure text. I always felt that with the rise of the GUI, we as a society became more and more visually oriented.
Anyway, this website, graphjam, is cute because it indicates how easily we're able to encode pop culture in visual forms. You could probably also say that visual data presentation is so ingrained in our culture that we've reached the point of parody. Interesting to note, often you'll run across a graph where the author either didn't pick up on the subtleties of the saying or lyric, or doesn't quite have a perfect understanding of the visualization technique.
more graph humor and song chart memes
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