Archive for June, 2009
World Refugees
22 Jun 2009
Food Inflation
19 Jun 2009CHANGES in global food prices are affecting some countries much more than others. Despite a big fall from peaks in 2008, food-price inflation remains high in places such as Kenya and Russia. In China, however, falling international commodity prices have been passed on to consumers faster.
Oil Speculation
19 Jun 2009THE oil market is behaving like a bucking bronco again, and politicians are once more blaming speculators for careening prices. It is difficult to assemble a definitive explanation for the rally: a weak dollar helps oil prices, but evidence for improving supply and demand remains thin. Positions held on NYMEX, the New York commodities exchange, have indeed soared.
UK Retail Property Prices
19 Jun 2009
NYC Murder Map
19 Jun 2009Homicide data cut, chopped, sorted, and mapped in all kinds of interesting ways (especially if you live in NYC). Supposedly will be updated regularly. Related article. Hat-tip to Information aesthetics for the find.
Ring Roads of the World
In: Innovative Maps
19 Jun 2009I wish I could find a larger version of this. seems to be lacking a scale too. Strangemaps noticed a few other problems – check out the comments.
Rochester NY Subway?
In: Maps
19 Jun 2009I grew up in Rochester, so this was pretty fascinating to me. I’ve seen references to the abandoned tunnels and always wanted to do some urban spelunking. Originally from rochestersubway.com.
Bubbles 1994-2009
In: Bailout Finance Housing Reference Source: WSJ Stock Market US Economy
18 Jun 2009A good chart of US bubbles. The print version (p.A8, 6/18/09) had much better aesthetics. but the data are the same. Related article.
Crude Oil Prices 1861-2008
18 Jun 2009Some chart-junk here (raining data points? really?).
Infectious greed has another version, with historical annotations and some interesting comments:
California Housing Inventory
In: Housing US Economy
18 Jun 2009Not too bad. of course, these numbers are affected by all kinds of factors (people not listing because they’re underwater, etc). Source: Infectious Greed.
US Financial Oversight Proposals
18 Jun 2009
More Auto Data
In: Bailout Maps US Economy
16 Jun 2009Ok, I know we’ve all about had it with visualizations of the history, market share, sales, brands, blah blah blah, concerning the US automotive industry — but here’s one last one from NPR. In addition to the map of Chrysler dealership closings shown below, there are several others of moderate interest if you click on the drop down menu in the upper right.
US Religion Map
16 Jun 2009I should probably send this over to Junk Charts for a proper critique. The transition animations are pretty, and the topic is interesting, but damn there just isn’t anything actually informative popping out at me here that seems worth all that effort. Maybe the data just wasn’t “deep” enough in detail.
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