The Greatest Ever Infographic - Numberphile

Amusing fact : this 50'000 to 28'000 loss crossing the Berezina river led to an expression in French : "C'est la Bérézina", expression that we use when something goes particulary wrong.

Sounds like a master piece

that indeed is a verry clever way to present information

He fell victim to one of the classic blunders! One of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia”.

Russians in Ukraine right now.Badly trained and equiped..And king winter is on them with his icy breath...10.000ands will perish...

Vive le Roi

It's not even properly proportional. You can clearly see when the number goes from 60,000 to 33,000 that the line remains like 80% as thick as it was before

Very cold winter. Minus 20 C.

Me, a Canadian. Is that all?

Imagine dying just before reaching back in Lithuania

To convert the temperatures on the chart to Celsius, multiply by 5/4. For Fahrenheit, multiply by 9/4 and add 32.

I don't know if it was already mentionned in the comment but French people were so traumatized by this retreat (and especially the Berezina crossing) that to this day "c'est la Berezina" is an expression to say "it's a catastrophy"

Great content. I looked up the details of the "river crossing". That coincided with a battle (named after the river) M

I came up with a method to encode 7 or 8 dimensions with a 2 dimensional medium:
x-Axis
y-Axis
z-axis on a pseudo 3D cube if we let that count
color
saturation
thiccness (the edges don't correspond to data on the y-axis)
labels
pattern (can be anything so infinite, but let's count it as just one method)

It gets extremely hard to imagine further methods.

It's pronounced "Kovno", not Kowno.

Someone should create similar charts for the three German fronts against Russian in WWII and for the Allied advance in Western Europe during that same war.

Napoleon didn't have James Bisonette to fund his army. Oh woops, wrong channel.

I love these Clips!

Narrator: That was a very cold winter. It goes down to -21 degrees C.
Russians: Hold my vodka, tovarishch, I'm going to walk the bear.

Anyone else read about this graphic in Tufte's first book?

Napoleon had a Theorem and Problem apparently-

This gigantic toothed Anglo explaining the most famous bugman litmus test ever devised.

I like this guy

I had a professor that called this one of the worst infographics ever made. I'm glad I'm not the only one that liked it.

One curious mind will go from not knowing what in the name of Copernicus an infographic is ---> oh, Napoleon... you say, and Russia - scratch that last. And hence, definitely developing a comprehensive understanding of what an infographic is. Go on, you know what I mean, just watch the video...

So, the French invasion of Russia was the ultimate example of rope-a-dope strategy (on the part of the Russians, that is)?!

What did the Russians eat if they burned their own villages and crops?

You ready know how to clickbait me don't you?

Surely best infographic ever was Nightingale’s ‘pie charts’

Has any one made an equivalent infographic of the following successful Russian (and allies) invasion of France in 1814?

Any supremacists watching? Any wannabe Hitlers, Napoleons, Caesars?
Just don't. Don't do that. That's how it always ends.

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I reckon the people who created the Tableau software corporation are Numberphile fans

That one time when retreating = victory.

Big oof

So this guy accomplished in one figure what took Tolstoy 1200 pages of War and Peace. Now THAT's a great info-graph!

The greatest infographic is Anatoly Fomenko's 16m or so long drawing of complete human history in correct chronological order.

Best ever graphic to this day.
And this chart is so widely published and studied.

Welcome to The Infographics Show.

I'd like an infographic like this about Cannae but it would be a just a 80k Roman army disappearing all of a sudden

You're NOT a Mongol so don't even think about it!!

There was a constant harassment by cossacks and partisans. French did not die from hunger and disease alone.

basically napoleon's failure in russia was not staking claim on the land and settling new parts of his empire as the russians retreated. they baited him very well

Got a biography there of Napoleon there, that I remember being astonished by the total lack of planning to take on Russia as winter was approaching.

Русская история глазами англичанина - математика, опирающегося на исследования инженера из Франции. Потрясающе...
Russian history through the eyes of an Englishman - mathematician, based on the research of an engineer from France. Stunningly...

interesting video comment

Hopefully there is grass growing in those battlefields

So if the government of China wants to reduce the size of its population, they simply have to attack Russia.

what an enormous waste of life

you was reading backwards. those are births

I can name that infographic in one frame.