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1 | CORRECTIONS, AMENDS & UPDATES TO INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL POSTS & IMAGES | ||||||||||||||||||||
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3 | Snake Oil supplements | 17/02/2014 | revision | added ubiquinol as alternative name for COQ10 | Jaclyn Werner | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||
4 | Snake Oil supplements | 17/02/2014 | revision | downgraded vitamin D general health from 5 to 3 in view of new Lancet review showing low vitamin D is mainly a marker rather than cause of disease | http://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(13)70165-7/abstract | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||
5 | Snake Oil supplements | 17/02/2014 | revision | downgraded vitamin D bone health from 4 to 2 in view of new Lancet review showing vitamin D for osteoporosis has little effect | http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61647-5/abstract | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||
6 | Snake Oil supplements | 17/02/2014 | revision | downgraded vitamin D flu from 4 to 2 as score based mainly on a single trial | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||||
7 | Snake Oil supplements | 17/02/2014 | revision | downgraded vitamin D depression from 3 to 2 as score based mainly on a single trial | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Snake Oil supplements | 17/02/2014 | revision | added caffeine and memory in light of new study | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24413697 | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||
9 | Snake Oil supplements | 17/02/2014 | revision | upgraded resveratrol to 1 from 0 in light of one new review and two cell studies | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23448440 http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2013/10/31/jbc.M113.466490 http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2812%2900143-X | Rock Trivia | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||
10 | Snake Oil v 2 | 02/04/2013 | revision | NAC - new review article added and made main link | Nathan Ackerman | ||||||||||||||||
11 | Snake Oil vs 2 | 23/02/2012 | correction | Antioxidants / mortality link broken - now fixed. | |||||||||||||||||
12 | Snake Oil v 2 | 31st October | revision | St. John's Wort downgraded from 6 to 3, amended rating to conflicting. New evidence available. Four new sources added. | Seymour | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||
13 | Snake Oil v 2 | 22nd August | update | Melatonin/insomnia upgraded to 5 and new studies added. Primary study replaced with more recent one. | Another Jake | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||
14 | Snake Oil v 2 | 4th August | update | Added latest Cochrane review as primary link for folic acid/certain birth defects. | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD007950/frame.html | Mark Selinger | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||
15 | Sunscreen Smokescreen | 19th July | error | removed section on 'Does Sunscreen Cause Cancer' after a review of the Environmental Working Group's evidence (pending our conclusion but it looks like junk science) | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21392107 | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/the-sunscreen-smokescreen/ | |||||||||||||||
16 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.52 | 18th July | addition | added "+XX days after the disaster" to Fukushima labels | makes more sense than a raw date | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | |||||||||||||||
17 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.51 | 18th July | typo | fixed "3.5" Tokyo figure | it was mis-labelled - should've been "7.5" | rpath, Kit Halsted | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | ||||||||||||||
18 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | revision | mammogram figure corrected | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | ||||||||||||||||
19 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | revision | cancer risk probabilities removed | design issues | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | |||||||||||||||
20 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | revision | natural radiation in the human body' removed | not a dose or dose rate | Hans from Germany | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | ||||||||||||||
21 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | revision | cancer radiotherapy dose reinstated but expressed per dose rather than per course of treatment | per single dose figure thought less misleading; cumulative doses spread over several weeks; doses vary widely depending on length of treatment | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | |||||||||||||||
22 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | revision | 100 Sv entry removed - highest entry now 50 Sv | 100 Sv dose needlessly high (30 Sv will kill within 48 hours) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | |||||||||||||||
23 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | revision | effects of radiation sickness at upper end of scale revised | to communicate likelihood of fatal dose/time to death better, and highlight importance of treatment for recovery | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | |||||||||||||||
24 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | update | more recent Fukushima radiation readings added | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | ||||||||||||||||
25 | 14th July | revision | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | ||||||||||||||||||
26 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | revision | triangular scale changed to column and visual representation of the logarithmic scale added | to make the logarithmic scale clearer | Ethan Jowett, Jameson Toole, Egg Syntax, John and others | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | ||||||||||||||
27 | Radiation Dosage Chart v 1.5 | 14th July | update | added exposure time columns to graph acute dose vs dose over different time periods: hours, one day, one year | Tomas | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/ | |||||||||||||||
28 | The SunScreen Smokescreen v 1.25 | 13th July | spelling | corrected mis-spelling of 'Melanoma' | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/the-sunscreen-smokescreen/ | ||||||||||||||||
29 | The SunScreen Smokescreen | 12th July | revision | added height data to the UV vs altitude micrographic | even though the image is intended as an illustrative icon, not a dataviz element! | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/the-sunscreen-smokescreen/ | |||||||||||||||
30 | The SunScreen Smokescreen | 12th July | revision | removed the 'melanoma mysteries section' as it was contributing to overall information overload on the image | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/the-sunscreen-smokescreen/ | ||||||||||||||||
31 | The SunScreen Smokescreen | 12th July | revision | rescaled the melanoma graphs to a single scale, rather than multiple Y-axes which was confusing people | |||||||||||||||||
32 | Snake Oil 2 | 9th May | revision | top to bottom revision of dataset | see Changelog here: http://snakeoil.s3.amazonaws.com/snakeoil_changelog.txt | Miriam Quick | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||
33 | Radiation Dosage Chart | 30th Mar | update | removed 20,000 mSv dose for 'targeted use in cancer radiotherapy' | considered potentially misleading as the dose / dose rate confusion could make a very effective anti-cancer treatment seem riskier | Katherine Herridge | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/radiation-dosage-chart/ | ||||||||||||||
34 | Radiation Dosage Chart | 30th Mar | update | added some context for the difference between dose & dose rate | Anil Dash | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/radiation-dosage-chart/ | |||||||||||||||
35 | Visualizations | 26th Dec | update | updated with new visualizations | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ | ||||||||||||||||
36 | Vitamin D | 1st Dec | addition | Added figures for the size of the Vitamin D industry | big industry! | http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/health/30vitamin.html?_r=3 | |||||||||||||||
37 | Vitamin D | 1st Dec | revision | Recommended daily amounts: added the new official 600IU per day recommendation from the Institute Of Medicine. Also weighted the 2000IU dose as subjective. Introduced the recommended maximum level of 4000IU daily | http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/Dietary-Reference-Intakes-for-Calcium-and-Vitamin-D.aspx | ||||||||||||||||
38 | Vitamin D | 1st Dec | addition | added a note on the dispute over what constitutes an 'insufficient' level of Vitamin D. Some say 20-30 nanomoles per ml of blood is fine and good for essential bone health. Other says this is too low for general health. Studies support both sides. | http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/Dietary-Reference-Intakes-for-Calcium-and-Vitamin-D.aspx | ||||||||||||||||
39 | Vitamin D | 1st Dec | revision | re-graded evidence of health benefits of vitamin D to "solid evidence", "slight evidence" and "conflicting evidence" | was "essential for", "influences" and "suspected effect" | http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/health/30vitamin.html | |||||||||||||||
40 | Who's Suing Whom in the Telecom's Trade? | 9th October | correction | resized Sony Ericsson's revenue (we mistakenly used Sony's revenue) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson | ||||||||||||||||
41 | Who's Suing Whom in the Telecom's Trade? | 9th October | addition | Motorola is suing Apple over 18 patent infringements | http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/motorola-asks-itc-two-federal-courts-to-throw-book-at-apple.ars | ||||||||||||||||
42 | Who's Suing Whom in the Telecom's Trade? | 9th October | correction | RIM is not suing Sharp | we took this info from original NY Times diagram (which was incorrect) | ||||||||||||||||
43 | Snake Oil | 22nd June | revision | top to bottom revision of dataset with all primary sources now hyperlinked | we'll be rolling this into the app shortly | Pearl Doughty White | http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ndFRKaU1FaWVvOEJiV2NwZ0JHck12X1E&hl=en_GB#gid=0 | ||||||||||||||
44 | In Deep Water: Can we afford to spill any oil? | 27th May | data update | added latest estimates of the amount of oil spilling per day | http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ndE1jVjRFNl9qX1RsU05LYnRDTHR3RVE&hl=en_GB#gid=6 | ||||||||||||||||
45 | International Number Ones | 21st May | data error | Uruquay having 'Most World Cup Wins', changed to 'Science For Kids' | Some dispute over Uruquay having most World Cup wins - the figure we have is per capita. Which, on reflection, doesn't make sense as it would privilege smaller countries | Daniel | http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_pro_of_pri_edu_tim_spe_lea_sci-primary-time-spent-learning-science | ||||||||||||||
46 | International Number Ones | 20th May | data error | removed 'Overweight women' from Slovakia (original OECD source did not reflect nationmaster.com source). It's actually Mexico. | Sorry for any offence caused to the beautiful women of Slovakia | Rasto Hatala | http://oberon.sourceoecd.org/vl=4437170/cl=21/nw=1/rpsv/societyataglance2009/07/04/index.htm | ||||||||||||||
47 | International Number Ones | 19th may | published | new image | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/because-every-country-is-the-best-at-something/ | ||||||||||||||||
48 | In Deep Water: Can we afford to spill any oil? | 6th May | spelling | change spelling of 'Caldiz' to 'Cadiz' | Peter McLaughlin | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/in-deep-water/ | |||||||||||||||
49 | In Deep Water: Can we afford to spill any oil? | 6th May | spelling | change year of 'Amoco Cadiz' from 1967 to 1978 | Oily Jim | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/in-deep-water/ | |||||||||||||||
50 | In Deep Water: Can we afford to spill any oil? | 5th May | data error | error in DeepWater Horizon in 'number of cars' calculation (divide by 2, rather than multiply x 2) | due to early version being uploaded by mistake | Steffen Freimuth | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/in-deep-water/ | ||||||||||||||
51 | Planes or Volcanos | April 20th | data error | CO2 emissions from volcano under-estimated by a factor of ten (from 15,000 to actually 150,000 tons per day) | due to a miscalculation based on pre-eruption sulphur dioxide levels | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/correction-apology-planes-or-volcano/ | |||||||||||||||
52 | SnakeOil | 29th March | update | adjusted 'ginger root' for nausea / digestions to 'conflicting evidence' | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||||
53 | SnakeOil | 24th March | update | updated the still image version with new data | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||||
54 | SnakeOil | typo | removed 'card' bug from data list | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
55 | SnakeOil | 10th March | update | : added 'omega 6' for heart health (good evidence) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||||
56 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for heart heath & cancer (conflicting evidence) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
57 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for cholesterol (conflicting) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
58 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for blood pressure (slight) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
59 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for depression (slight) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
60 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for colorectal cancer (slight) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
61 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for heart arrythmias (slight) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
62 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for ADHD & behaviour (very slight) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
63 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for Crohn's Disease, Asthma, Diabetes, Dementia (none) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
64 | SnakeOil | 6th March | update | : added 'hyaluronic acid' for arthritis (slight evidence) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||||
65 | SnakeOil | update | : added anti-inflammatory evidence to 'turmeric' (slight) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
66 | SnakeOil | update | : added 'CoQ10' for heart disease (none), migraine and blood pressure (slight), diabetes (none) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
67 | SnakeOil | update | : added 'L-Lysine' for herpes (conflicting but one to watch) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
68 | SnakeOil | update | : added 'capsaicin' (no evidence) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
69 | SnakeOil | update | : added 'magnesium' for diabetes (no evidence) and hypertension (slight) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
70 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for heart health & cancer (slight evidence) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
71 | SnakeOil | update | : adjusted 'omega 3' for cancer (slight evidence) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
72 | SnakeOil | update | : added 'cocoa' for heart health & blood pressure (promising!) | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
73 | Snakeoil | 26th February | spelling | : corrected spelling of 'cinnamon' | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | ||||||||||||||||
74 | Snakeoil | spelling | : corrected spelling of 'chondroitin' | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
75 | Snakeoil | spelling | : corrected spelling of 'turmeric' | http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ | |||||||||||||||||
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