Archive for September, 2009
Death is a Risk
25 Sep 2009Fatality rates for a number of diseases, and fatality rate vs survival time outside the body (why you should wash your hands). Designed and researched beautifully by Information is Beautiful.
Student Loans
In: Culture
25 Sep 2009A look at the numbers (yes, students and parents are still getting screwed by overpriced education), originally by WallStats.
EU Expenditure
In: Emerging Markets Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics
24 Sep 2009
Extinction
23 Sep 200926 well designed cards (though some more interesting information on each would have been nice) produced to draw attention to threatened species. Below is the Amur Tiger. From ArtistAsCitizen.
This has got to be one of the silliest and content-lacking infographics I’ve seen in a while. The pie charts are almost useless, most of the icons indecipherable, and placing them over the faces of schoolchildren?!?
Twitter Trends Map
In: Culture Interactive Maps
23 Sep 2009Real time interactive map of tweets. Scroll in and see what people are talking about around the world.
Ancient Graphic Design
23 Sep 2009
Mickey-D Map
23 Sep 2009A map of the United States, colored by the distance to the nearest McDonalds. In case you were wondering, the furthest point from a McDonalds you can get to in the country is 107 miles (145 miles by car).
Now I Know
23 Sep 2009
Poor Header
In: News Media
23 Sep 2009The newspaper doesn’t always do that great a job of interpreting statistics. It appears someone in the graphics department forgot that the 2009 number was only for part of the event (or thought the footnote was sufficient). To be fair, according to this article, attendance was indeed up this year.
Gadget Impact
22 Sep 2009While toys and appliances are getting more efficient – we are using more of them. Related NYT article. Again, hat tip to the keen eye of Paul Kedrosky.
Google News Timeline
22 Sep 2009Browse visually through the news of time period (month, day, year) Click on “add more queries” to control the content sources displayed. Filter by date, or do a search. Unfortunately only goes back to 2005.
Branding
22 Sep 2009A comparison of how brands are ranked over time. I’d question the methodology and meaning of these surveys, but the graphic is well designed and curiously interesting to play with. Spotted at Infectious Greed.
Fun With [Banking] Data
In: Employment Finance Graphic Design (general) Reference US Economy
22 Sep 2009The St. Louis Federal Reserve has an excellent graphing tool called Fred Graph. You can view a variety of economic (not just banking) data over any time period, add/delete series at will, and download the raw data. Below is an example of commercial, consumer, and real estate loans (1940-today); and the same data zoomed in on 2007-today (note the total absence of increased lending). To start, pick a data series from the Fred Page then click on the graph itself to bring up more design options.
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- RJS: Highly entertaining this, however misleading it might be--if indeed it is misleading. The problem is [...]
- Al: Designers out there will enjoy this 'making of', walking through the designs they tried and discarde [...]
- Matt: Totally misleading. The recent spending cuts were not an Obama policy; Afghanistan was overwhelmingl [...]
- Mike Liveright: Two comments, though I do like the look and results... 1) Since $'s are linear, I think that a 2 [...]
- fatmike182: just a note concerning the photo of the car: it's an actual sculpture by the artist Erwin Wurm. Defi [...]