Alright, I may be going a little crazy, but I’ve become obsessed with Chart Porn. Data visualisations are starting to take over my life, I spend hours at a time scrolling through the archives with wide eyes and that prime time TV ‘jaw drop.’ I’m ashamed to say, my heart rate is actually increase at the thought of Chart Porn. This is terrible, I need help.
“I am Joanna and I have a sexual attraction to Chart Porn.”
Alright, thats a bit of exagguration, I have been lusting after other data visualisation blogs too. I’m very tempted to paste over my walls with these delights. Just scroll through a few pages and you’ll know what I’m talking about. I think it touches two different parts of my soul: my love of political statistics and my love of pretty graphics.
Yet this one was very depressing:
It literally sends shivers down my body thinking about domestic violence and abusive relationships in general. But it’s statistics like this which remind me why I want to study international politics. I’d love to know the breakdowns of these statistics - age, religion, wealth etc. I can’t think of a single person I know who would think it acceptable for their husband to hit them, but then again, I live in a Western bubble. I’ve always found it easy to relate to the majority of people’s beliefs, with the thoughts that as humans, we are more similar than we are different, and that maybe if I was brought up the way you were, I probably would understand your way of thinking more. But, I struggle to see how that could ever be right. I mean, the feminist media had a frenzy with the Chris Brown/Rihanna fiasco a few months back. Would these women, in that situation, stick by their husbands? And there goes another shiver…
Considering I’ve used the word ‘porn’ in this post a fair bit, apologies to anybody who stumbles across this post expecting porn. If I get some particularly legendary finders through legendary search terms, I’ll be sure to compile them into a blog post.
4/10/09 
