Archive for July, 2009
Foreclosures and Modifications
In: Housing| US Economy
29 Jul 2009Not good. Is unemployment still a lagging indicator when housing and credit are at the center of a recession?
Smoking Stats: World and US
In: Culture| Global Economy| Science
29 Jul 2009Good use of a spiral chart (though a normal bar would have been just as good, I guess).
Architecture
In: Culture| Infographic (clever)| Maps| Science
29 Jul 2009This was labeled “Infographic of Global Change” on Flickr. It’s a historical map of architecture.
Musical Themes
29 Jul 2009Based on the Guardian’s list of 1000 songs to hear before you die.
Blog post of designer Sean Carmody.
a box plot of the same data:
Seafood Heatmap?
29 Jul 2009What 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.
Stock Exchange Capitalization Map
In: Finance| Global Economy| Maps
29 Jul 2009Value and Volume. I’m not sure using buildings as a scale is very helpful.
Housing Fraud in Florida
In: Housing| Maps| US Economy
27 Jul 2009The 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!
Depression/Recession… lets call the whole thing off
In: Employment| US Economy
27 Jul 2009
Health Care Reform Lobbying
27 Jul 2009
The End is Near?
27 Jul 2009The 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.
How Much is College Worth?
In: Culture| Source: NYT| US Economy
23 Jul 2009NYT’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.
Child Obesity
In: Maps| Source: WSJ
23 Jul 2009Looks 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).
School Days
23 Jul 2009A 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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