Archive for October, 2009
GDP Recovery Trends
30 Oct 2009Lots of information here. What drew my eye was the size of the circles, which indicate how much each sector contributed to growth/contraction. I’m not sure what the sizes of the circles in the total column are supposed to be. Related WSJ article.
Poverty in America
30 Oct 2009An interesting way to show geographic data that is obviously weighted by population – the author created a cloud of rough geographic position, but varied the size of the graphs by population.
Visualizing Size
In: Innovative Science
30 Oct 2009A very cool and well designed zoomable comparison of relative microscopic sizes. I particularly like the variable scale in the corner. (via FlowingData and Information Aesthetics)
It’s Alive!!!
In: Humor US Economy
29 Oct 2009I couldn’t help but laugh at Infectious Greed’s response to today’s Q3 GDP numbers.
Turns out coursing a few gigavolts of financial stimulus current through even an economy the size of the U.S. will still get Frankenstein off the slab, however briefly.
Fun with Weekly Data
In: Graphic Design (general) Innovative Reference US Economy
29 Oct 2009This is a bit old (the data ends in July ’08), but I like this animated approach to displaying high frequency data over time. Something like this might be interesting to do for cross-country financial data-series.
Impressively, Jon Peltier came up with a way to do this in excel (and check out his blog for other really cool excel chart tricks and solutions)
Global Life and Death
29 Oct 2009A data packed international comparison of health statistics. I give Good a lot of grief for the design of some of their infographics, but this one is well done. (via Simple Complexity)
World Opinions on Climate Change
29 Oct 2009An interesting use of 3d cubes to display polling results. The polling questions are also much better constructed than the usual “do you think climate change is happening?”
Percent of married population now divorced or separated, by age.
Going for Broke
In: Culture Finance US Economy
28 Oct 2009
Swine Flu Mortality
28 Oct 2009This comparison of H1N1 deaths to other causes should help us keep our perspective (of course, you should also consider deaths among certain risk groups).
Rigged Trade Rules
In: Global Economy
27 Oct 2009Oxfam has produced a series of six simple, but effective and entertaining, animations that argue how global trade practices are hurting developing countries.
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