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		<title>The Chart Show: Number 1!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Chart Show. My name is Sam Schäfer and I will be using this blog to guide you through my life, my mind and my world through the medium of graphs and charts: But why use charts and &#8230; <a href="http://thechartshow.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/the-chart-show-number-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thechartshow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20817792&amp;post=25&amp;subd=thechartshow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to The Chart Show. My name is Sam Schäfer and I will be using this blog to guide you through my life, my mind and my world through the medium of graphs and charts:</p>
<p><a href="http://thechartshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/how-many-graphs.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26" title="How many posts will contain charts and/or graphs." src="http://thechartshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/how-many-graphs.jpg?w=300&#038;h=290" alt="" width="300" height="290" /></a></p>
<p>But why use charts and graphs when words have served human kind perfectly well for thousands of years you say? Well, because if it is in a chart or graph then it is automatically a fact, as proven by this chart:</p>
<p><a href="http://thechartshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fact-graph.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27" title="How facts are displayed." src="http://thechartshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fact-graph.jpg?w=300&#038;h=235" alt="" width="300" height="235" /></a></p>
<p>But Sam, you&#8217;re no good at Maths and actually study a social science with a worryingly small number of graphs and/or charts and therefore a worryingly small number of facts, I hear you say. That is a valid point, perhaps it would be fair to call me something of an enthusiastic amateur. So how will I as a mere amateur fair in this whole endeavour? Let&#8217;s look at a graph of who I am to see if we can learn anything:</p>
<p><a href="http://thechartshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/how-successful-am-i.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29" title="How successful am I" src="http://thechartshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/how-successful-am-i.jpg?w=405&#038;h=299" alt="" width="405" height="299" /></a></p>
<p>What we can learn from that is I&#8217;m a mediocre student, a slightly above average comedian, and an alright blogger. I am also an awful astronaut, so much so that I am not even an astronaut, once I fell out of a tree and I class that as defying gravity. However even not being an astronaut, I am a better astronaut than I am a person. So as you can see, comparatively this should be one of my more successful projects. But what will you be getting from this? Hopefully a novel and whimsical look at the world through the use of graphs and charts with varying degrees of accuracy. To reflect this I have made a hypothetical graph of how the blog will progress:</p>
<p><a href="http://thechartshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/blog-progress.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30" title="How the blog will progress" src="http://thechartshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/blog-progress.jpg?w=452&#038;h=338" alt="" width="452" height="338" /></a></p>
<p>So that&#8217;s about it for my introductory post, please do check back for more updates, maybe even subscribe. If you like the sound of it tell your friends, if you don&#8217;t then tell your enemies. I hope you&#8217;ll join me as we journey through my life in pie charts. (Sorry I thought I better get that joke out-of-the-way early).</p>
<p>Cheers, bye.</p>
<p>Sam.</p>
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