Comments on: Fluffy Links – Monday January 19th 2009

By: statusireland

statusireland — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:09:08 +0000

Re: John Handelaar - Just want to address a couple of the comments you made. The chart of non-catholic population in Ireland is taken from the 2006 census and numbers required interaction with the chart in order to see. The chart about property rental prices are statistics taken directly from the daft.ie report which is issued every 3 months in Ireland. The chart is an index and is used to show the trends in property rent values. The pie chart of population in irelandis useful to show people actually how the split between males and females in this country is pretty much 50/50 and again the values are taken from the 2006 census and the exact numbers available when you interact with the chart. I'm glad you had a look around and if there are any issues then get in contact via the site and we'll work to clean it up. I also had considered changing the electoral breakdown to pie chart but to the eye all slices look the same, with a bar chart it displays the info showing obvious differences. I'm glad I stumbled upon your comment and I could address them as feeback is the only way for any site to improve, even if it is overly harsh.

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:14:13 +0000

I'm sorry, but that stats site is just pants. Pie chart of non-Catholic population without any numbers whatsoever. Population bar chart that should have been a pie. Utterly nonsensical chart about property rental prices showing numbers with no stated basis in anything. And finally The least informative pie chart I have ever seen published anywhere ever. On the other hand, the blog underneath it is very good. Bizarre chasm between the two, though.

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:22:48 +0000

If there is one thing worse than the sea kitten thing, it is everyone going on about the sea kitten thing, for the last six months, in waves, as they notice it. The whole thing is rather off-putting.

“In search of somebody that loves advertising” – Ah, a mad person, then.

By: Christian Hughes

Christian Hughes — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:42:47 +0000

I read Paul’s post about the cv’s; it’s just mental. Surely anyone going for a marketing job is aware of what they need to do to stand out? Crazy altogether.