Archive for October, 2009
Obama Tracker
26 Oct 2009An odd little tool – it’s a timeline of major economic, domestic policy, and foreign policy events and developments. It’s not clear to me what use the bars are. Perhaps a calendar would have been better?
Visual History of The Federal Reserve
26 Oct 2009
UK Quantitative Easing
26 Oct 2009Cumulative total of gilt purchases by the Bank of England. Related article. <insert generic comment about how the mind doesn’t easily distinguish arc lengths in spiral charts>
Google Flu Trends
In: Interactive Maps Science
25 Oct 2009Google uses aggregated google search data to estimate flu activity around the world (for 21 countries at the moment).
Do you doubt the accuracy of this method? There’s a chart comparing historical CDC reports to the google method:
Health Care Demographics
25 Oct 2009The content is interesting, but I’m posting it just as much for being a good example of “many smalls” design, in this case small maps. (via)
Endangered Species Map
25 Oct 2009
Economic Recovery Dashboard (Oct 09 ver)
24 Oct 2009October update of one of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. If you normally find this stuff confusing you should check it out — click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.
Why You Have a Nose
23 Oct 2009There are two evolutionary reasons for having a nose, runs one theory. The first is to ascertain whether it would be safe to put something in your mouth – to gauge edibility. The second is to advise about whether it would be a good idea to run away
Population Problems
23 Oct 2009A graphic of several countries’ population distribution. The related article points out that while many OECD countries are facing problems because of their aging population, many developing countries are dealing with the opposite. Uganda, for example has 70 percent of the population under 30.
Russia vs USA
23 Oct 2009
Economists vs Everyone Else
23 Oct 2009
2008 Executive Compensation
In: Bailout Finance Interactive Source: USA Today US Economy
23 Oct 2009
Credit Card Transactions
In: Finance
22 Oct 2009
Hidden Content
21 Oct 2009I’m starting to think that Good must be TRYING to design these so poorly. I suppose it’s one way to get us to notice the data (since we have to hunt around for it). I’ll leave it to JunkCharts or someone else to enumerate the number of ways this is bad.
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- mims: Lol, the lazy man. I'd say the efficient woman. Or man. ;) [...]
- lam: except, scott, when you consider that congress has to do somethings just to keep this country functi [...]
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