links for 2009–01–30
30. January 2009
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"The Oscar nominees were announced this morning, which means it's time to get out your scorecards to see who's winning in the eternal struggle between the MPAA vs. the Internet. (Hint: It's not the MPAA.)
I've been tracking the distribution of Oscar-nominated films every year, culminating with the release of six years of piracy data last year. I've updated those spreadsheets with this year's 26 nominees, for a total of 211 films from the last seven years."
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"How do you read such a graph? Is this the ideal way to depict this sort of information? If you wanted to know which part of the state was most populous, how would you go about figuring it out? Researchers have developed conflicting models to explain how it's done. One model suggests that people reading this kind of graph must cycle between the different parts in order to understand it. This makes some sense: to answer our question about population, you'd have to look back and forth between the legend and the colors on the map."
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"Construction Could Begin 2010, Completed 2015
Innogy Nordsee 1 will be built 40 kilometers north of the island of Juist and cover an area of sea about 150 square kilometers in size. Innogy expects to receive permitting approval later in 2009, with construction beginning in 2010, the first turbines producing power a year later, and the entire wind farm completed in 2015. Total costs for the project are expected to run to €2.8 billion ($3.7 billion).Based on wind speeds in the region, project developers expect the wind farm to produce over 3 TWh of electricity when fully completed."
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