There’s no time to explain

I came across this curious video mashup while doing my second TMA. It conveys no profound message whatsoever — because it has no time to explain? — but it has left me still wondering how much work went into producing it. For one, just how did the creators manage to know that the 41 clips they mashed up contain that line? Here’s the list:

The Simpsons
Kaboom
101 Dalmatians
If Looks Could Kill
Hey Arnold: The Movie
Greg the Bunny
Kill Speed
Fool’s Gold
Les Miserables
Ricochet
Scary Movie 4
The Swan Princess 2
Capricorn 1
A Mighty Wind
Sleeping Beauty
The Thief Lord
The Emperor’s New Groove
Beauty and the Beast
Big Fish
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze
Without A Paddle: Nature’s Calling
The Hidden II
Innerspace
Tin Man
Cellular
Life Size
The Rescuers Down Under
Narrow Margin
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Sword and in the Stone
Garfield’s Pet Force
Airplane II
Johnny Was
Boston Legal
Ice Spiders
Beyond Loch Ness
Hercules and the Amazon Woman
Capricorn 1
Sin City

Amazing, indeed,  how such a “simple” concept could morph into a somewhat entertaining piece of work.

Working with data

Are you into data journalism? Or does your job require you to handle and interpret lots and lots of data? Here’s a piece of good news. The book, Data Journalism Handbook, is now available online – for free, under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareALike license.

The authors hope to foster data literacy, which they define as “the ability to consume for knowledge, produce coherently and think critically about data. It includes statistical literacy but also understanding how to work with large data sets, how they were produced, how to correct various data sets and how to interpret them.”

I used to work for IBON Foundation in Manila and I’m sure this is one book that can definitely benefit the research institution’s present crop of researchers and writers, who, in the digital age, are always faced with the so-called information overload.

Click here to access the book.