Archive for August, 2009
Most Accurate Statistics of the Month
In: Humor Innovative
18 Aug 2009
Religion Maps
18 Aug 2009Where is the real bible belt? What about the Pentacostal belt? (there isn’t one – they’re very spread out) Fascinating maps showing how regional some Christian church’s are. Below are a few breakdowns – there are 20+ on the site. Spotted by Nathan over at FlowingData, originally from Valparaiso University.
Development aid
In: Global Economy Maps
18 Aug 2009Only includes the top 20 recipients and top 5 donors. This is a map that screams for an interactive version with roll over numbers rather than all the lines (and more country coverage)
Geeknews Treemap
In: Culture News Media
18 Aug 2009Much like the news map, the oursignal.com treemap aggregates headlines from Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us and a couple others (should include slashdot, IMO). Spotted over at Information Aesthetics.
Hard Workers
In: Global Economy Maps
18 Aug 2009
European GDP
16 Aug 2009Interactive bar chart of EU country GDP. Unfortunately, they resize the scale on every chart, making it tough to do cross-country comparisons (though they do put the euro-zone average on each chart).
From the NYT:
World Exports
14 Aug 2009A mixed story on trade – I think people are still reaching pretty hard for green shoot, especially in this data. Related article.
Greenhouse Gases
14 Aug 2009The Guardian’s DataBlog brings us some environmental infographics on greenhouse gases.
Sources: (from the World Resources Institute)
CO2 emission map, with interactive country drill-downs:
Day n Nite
14 Aug 2009
Life is a Series of Months
12 Aug 2009The average persons life in months, with some milestone achievements colored in. I like the idea of the presentation. but could use more work. Spotted at DataViz. originally(?) from SubversiveInfluence.
Kennedy Family Tree
12 Aug 2009Nice piece of genealogy from the Washington Post. Related article.
Job Losses by County, 1/07-6/09
11 Aug 2009year on year changes over time (not seasonally adjusted). Has roll-overs for county specific data.
Cash 4 Clunkers
In: US Economy
11 Aug 2009What people have been trading in – and what they have been buying. Personally I think it’s stupid to trash cars that are still in good shape. it’s basically another subsidy to the car industry.
Drug Venn
In: Culture Innovative
10 Aug 2009
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