Archive for November, 2009
Ethics vs Salary
20 Nov 2009summary: ethics doesn’t pay well. actually, according to this, nothing pays very well. More data is probably needed.
Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad
20 Nov 2009
The Average Flag
In: Innovative Maps
19 Nov 2009Bonus points for trying something new: flags of the world with their colors weighted by population. (via)
Emotional Investing
19 Nov 2009The second one from Vanguard lets you adjust when you leave and enter the market (based on market crashes/recoveries). Very cool.
Interactive Investing
18 Nov 2009Vanguard has several interesting interactive tools for visualizing investment decisions. The first concerns investment composition. Use the sliders at the bottom to choose between stocks, bonds, and cash – and to show how your investments would have performed over any date range since 1928. Click on the little graph icons in the upper right corner to view it as data or a line chart. Thanks to Diane Fitzer for pointing them out.
“Good” Jobs
In: Employment US Economy
17 Nov 2009The Economic Policy Institute defines a “good” job as “one that pays at least 60% of the median household income and also provides health care and retirement benefits.” – Sociological Images
Would have been more interesting to see 2007 data as well – I imagine 2008 is a bad comparator.
UK Government Salaries
17 Nov 2009From the Queen on down. Click on “fullscreen” to vew a large zoomable version. Related Guardian article. (via)
Who is Paying Taxes
In: Politics US Economy
17 Nov 2009You always see these stats chopped apart to make one side or other happy – it’s nice to see it just laid out clearly.
China vs United States
16 Nov 2009Comparison of some economic and financial indicators
Recruitment Up
16 Nov 2009A slightly different measure of unemployment – this one based on online job listings (the Monster.com employment index).
Europe’s Finance Ministers
16 Nov 2009Interactive ranking of performance on several factors.
Marijuana Legalization
16 Nov 2009
Great Lakes Infographic
16 Nov 2009Combines relative elevation, depth, and volume. I’m not so sure they needed to be overlapping (maybe vertically staked would have been better?), but it’s still a nice graphic. (from wikipedia’s Great Lakes page, via Kelso’s corner)
Exploding Empires (1800-2004)
16 Nov 2009A strange visualization of the decline of imperialism – colonies explode out as they are granted independence. (via)
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