Archive for July, 2009

Not good. Is unemployment still a lagging indicator when housing and credit are at the center of a recession?

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Good use of a spiral chart (though a normal bar would have been just as good, I guess).

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This was labeled “Infographic of Global Change” on Flickr. It’s a historical map of architecture.

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Based on the Guardian’s list of 1000 songs to hear before you die.
Blog post of designer Sean Carmody.

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a box plot of the same data:

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Seafood Heatmap?

In: Culture Science

29 Jul 2009

What seafoods are safe to eat? Being overfished? Good magazine has a guide. (roughly: blue=good, yellow=maybe, black=bad; see the article for details). More interesting, perhaps, is the Seafood Watch iphone app which was mentioned in the comments.

 

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Value and Volume. I’m not sure using buildings as a scale is very helpful.

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The Herald-Tribune is running a five-day investigative series on the rampant housing fraud in Florida. “Since 2000, more than 50,000 Florida properties flipped under circumstances that fraud investigators identify as suspicious — where homes, vacant land or commercial properties were bought and resold in 90 days or less and increased in value by at least 30 percent.”  Wow!

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From Catherine over at Visualizing Economics.

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A tree map of where the money is flowing. Related article.
(from Kelso’s Corner)

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The index of leading indicators, which signals turning points in the economy, is rising at a rate that has accurately indicated the end of every recession since the index began to be compiled in 1959.

Spotted by The Big Picture. Original article.

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NYT’s Economix blog noticed payscale.com’s dataset of college grad salaries. Some interesting charts there, and since they make the raw data available, we’ll probably see more.

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Looks like a nice chart. Too bad it’s squished, 3d, and slightly out of focus. I get the impression a lot of graphics people are either on their summer vacations already, or distracted getting ready for them (I know I am).

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A hodge-podge of school related facts. You always walk away from a Good infographic wanting more, but nobody does the easy read overviews as well as they do.

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