Chart Porn Summer Vacation
23 Aug 2010Chart Porn is going on a short summer vacation, but will be back in early September with some fun new features. Thanks to everyone for your support this year. Now go out and enjoy the rest of your summer!
Sugar Water Companies
In: Food Global Economy
22 Aug 2010
Movie Sequels: Best to Worst
In: Culture
22 Aug 2010Hierarchy of good and bad sequels, based on IMdb and Rotten Tomatoes ratings.
Can We Date?
20 Aug 2010
Bankruptcies Back on the Rise
19 Aug 2010Despite the 2005 reforms that made it tougher, bankruptcies are rising steadily.
Undersea Cable Map
19 Aug 2010The information isn’t terribly interesting, but this interactive Bing-based map of undersea communications cables is a nice example of what can be done with public data and a little hard work. (Thanks to mapgirl for the link!)
Bush’s Tax Cuts by the Numbers
18 Aug 2010A very well done interactive of how people will be affected by the expiration of the 2001/03 tax breaks, as well as a what Obama is proposing.
China Leads World in Beer Consumption
In: Food Global Economy Maps
18 Aug 2010Forget GDP, China now drinks more beer than either the US or Europe, and is growing by 10 percent a year.
How You Will Get Hurt at Burning Man
In: Culture
17 Aug 2010A graph of the injury reports from the past three years of the Burning Man arts festival. (Thanks to Sean R for spotting it!)
History of GDP (1-2008)
17 Aug 2010Data compiled by Angus Maddison, an economist who died earlier this year, suggest that China and India were the biggest economies in the world for almost all of the past 2000 years. Why they fell so far behind may be more of a mystery than why they are currently flourishing.
(ps – the comments at the Economist are worth the read)
30 Creative Wedding Invitations
17 Aug 2010A collection of novel wedding invitation designs. Does anyone really send the embossed letter anymore?
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- Russian Sphinx: Enjoy your vacation and come back to us with new ideas! [...]
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