Archive for November, 2009

Also, one of the clearest descriptions of the Gini Coefficient that I’ve read.

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Animated map of the 1+ million transactions that happened on ebay. (via)

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Swine Flu Facts

In: Science

29 Nov 2009

Lots of great information.

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Gobble Gobble

In: Culture

25 Nov 2009

Some holiday charts from the BLS.

Price of turkeys:

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Producer prices:

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GHG emmissions

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More Death

In: Culture Science

25 Nov 2009

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I hadn’t realized how uniform this was around the world. Thanks to Jack for pointing it out.

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Terrorism

In: Culture Politics

23 Nov 2009

Plots vs attacks, and average age of terrorists.

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I’m just posting this because I know eventually I will use the design for a silly powerpoint or diagram.

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GE has put together an interactive toy for looking at how expensive different illnesses are at different ages. Use the slider at the bottom to pick the age. “Wedges are colored by chronic condition and wedge size (angle), represents the percentage of patients with the condition. Wedge length from center to edge is cost. The lightly colored portions are personal cost and the darkly colored are insurer cost.”  (via FlowingData) Robert Kosara has a detailed critique of the chart over at eagereyes.

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A reasonably accurate mapping of choices. Thanks to Sandy for pointing it out to me. and I just noticed there’s one on the same site for cereal.

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November 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.

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Because its Friday. something a little more entertaining –  and it’s actually a nice combination of venn and axis chart styles.

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Interactive map of Transparency International’s 2009 “Corruption Perception Index”. (via)

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