Understand Health Reform
In: Interactive| Politics
12 Mar 2010A nice interactive tool from the AP that explains the health reform bills, including a “you” filter that explains what provisions will affect you based on your age and current insurance.
Mortgages Still in Trouble
12 Mar 2010
Chartporn Is Experiencing Technical Difficulties
11 Mar 2010Much to my annoyance, Chartporn is experiencing some technical problems today. I apologize for the inconvenience. Please stand by.
Update: 3/12 — Everything should be working fine now. Let me know if anyone encounters problems.
1870 Census Maps
10 Mar 201054 maps and charts. The level of detail and sophistication is pretty damn impressive for the period. (again from Radical Cartography — can you tell I’m digging through that site? Love it.)
Map Projections
10 Mar 2010A lot of people are familiar with the distortions of the standard Mercator projection, but Radical Cartography has a pretty comprehensive annotated library for browsing if you’re into that sort of thing.
Food Maps
In: Food| Global Economy| Maps
10 Mar 2010Cool maps of farming, via Sociological images and F.A.D (check them out for some discussion), originally from Radical Cartography.
And a cool historical map of global cropland use: 
Global Arms Trade
In: Global Economy| Politics
10 Mar 2010Interesting.
Thanks to Tim for passing it on!
Water use in Edmonton during the Olympic gold medal Hockey Game.
Google Public Data Explorer
In: Employment| Global Economy| Graphic Design (general)| Infographic (clever)| Maps| Reference| Science
9 Mar 2010
Chile Earthquake Shifted City 10 Feet West
In: Environment/weather| Maps| Science
9 Mar 2010Based on GPS data, the entire city of Concepcion moved 10 feet to the west. Note that in the maps below the arrow scale and map scale are different – it looks a little odd at first, but makes sense.
137 Years of Popular Science
In: Culture| Maps| News Media| Science
9 Mar 2010Popular Science magazine has partnered with Google to make available it’s entire archive. Keyword searches bring up an entire month/issue with your search result highlighted. It looks they have OCR’d every page, making for some cool search results. (via)
For example, a search of “map” brought up this map of US science sites from 1967:
and this first air-map of the north pole from 1931:
“Chart” brings up radiological diagrams from 1950 (among many many others)
Gay Partnerships in USA
In: Culture| Politics| Source: Economist
9 Mar 2010From The Economist:
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