Archive for August, 2009

On Vacation

In: Chartporn Related

21 Aug 2009

FYI: I will be on vacation for the next few weeks. There will be no new posts until my return. Stop staring at your computer, go outside, and enjoy the rest of your summer.

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From a Washington Post article on fatal helicopter accidents. What first looked like just one kind of interesting chart turned out to be three solid ones once you started clicking around. (Thanks to Jane An for pointing them out).

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August 19th was World Humanitarian Day. The PDF file below charts the number of humanitarian workers who have been killed, kidnapped, and injured trying to help their fellow man. Thanks to Nancy Meaker for sending the link.

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American attitudes towards different industries.

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I’ve been tempted to steal this design many times. it’s a nice way to present mostly qualitative information for a large number of countries – and people understand it intuitively.

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Compare some interesting housing variables (foreclosure rate, home price %change, personal income %change, and GDP). The related article talks about Vermont missing the boom and the bust.

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A map of the paths of several hurricanes. Looks like they plan to update it throughout the hurricane season. This is very similar to the AP tool I mentioned in June.

 

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Excellent data from the WSJ, via The Big Picture.

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Tempo Magic

In: Culture

21 Aug 2009

Britain’s top music, graphed against beats per minute.

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Fantastic chart from Information is Beautiful. Caffeine on one axis, calories on the other.

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Financial Services

In: Finance Humor

21 Aug 2009

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From a Wired blog post about the space program.

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