Archive for September, 2009
Lehman Diaspora
16 Sep 2009Move the timeline slider and watch former Lehman employees scatter to their new jobs. Click on blocks to see individual stories.
Crisis Timeline
16 Sep 2009Call up monthly slivers of data and related news for 6 financial market indicators (dow, treasury yields, libor, commercial yields, CDS spreads, mortgage backed spreads).
Hot Air Inventory
In: Humor Interactive Politics
15 Sep 2009Compare any two members of the 110th (2007-08) US congress, by amount of words spoken, votes, and even a nice little word cloud.
Suburbified New York
In: Culture Maps News Media
15 Sep 2009“Based on the New York Times ‘Living In‘ columns from the past ten years, this map uses color-coding to represent publication dates and provides a list of common phrases that describe the locations.” The phrases are pretty entertaining.
NYT News Classifier
15 Sep 2009Uses “elastic lists” to find articles. Much better than the normal search
Economic Recovery Dashboard (9/15/09 update)
In: Employment Finance Innovative Interactive Reference Updated regularly US Economy
15 Sep 2009Here is this month’s update of one of my favorite presentations of economic indicators, from Russell Investments. Includes trending, useful popups, drill down links to historical data, and good descriptions of each indicator. It’s really everything an economic dashboard should look like. (ok, maybe they could animate it over time.)
Bank Robberies
In: Culture Innovative
15 Sep 2009An interesting presentation of some bank robbery stats. Of course, the eye isn’t really that good at comparing arc lengths – but if you’re only trying to make broad statistical points these types of charts aren’t too bad.
The 5 Stages of Everyday Griefs
In: Humor
14 Sep 2009A little irreverent, so is pretty much everything else over at MADATOMS.
Effective Tax Rates
14 Sep 2009Can you tell I’m catching up on Economist charts? Well, suffer – because they’re pretty good, despite the overuse of distracting background graphics.
Is College Worth the Cost?
14 Sep 2009Comparison of lifetime earnings of college graduates vs non. I think this is the originating OECD report for the data. Reminds me of the articles on whether MBAs are worth the cost. And for the record: a giant smiley face should never ever be the visual focal point of an infographic.
Doing Business Around the World
14 Sep 2009The World Bank’s Doing Business survey analysis has come under some criticism recently, but still provides a good broad cross-country indicator of business related practices.
Smashing Success!
13 Sep 2009
Smashing Magazine has included ChartPorn in their list of 25 Data Visualization and Infographics Resources. Besides checking out the list, I’d recommend looking over Smashing Magazine’s entire website. They really maintain a treasure trove of graphic design resources over there (in fact, IIRC I found Chartporn’s original WordPress theme over there).
In related news, Chartporn is now up over 1000 RSS subscribers. Not much by blog standards, I suppose, but it makes me happy to know people are enjoying this collection.
GDP Dots
13 Sep 2009A novel way of presenting GDP (and I’ve seen a lot of them). It’s a sorted time-line-chart with scaling. Nicely done. Spotted over at Visualizing Economics. Originally by Joe Swainson.
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Terrorism Worry Tree
In: Commentary Culture Politics
15 Sep 2009Why have there been no more 9/11’s? Click on each of the theories to bring up the relevant essay, and make up your own mind.