Archive for November, 2009
Political Map
15 Nov 2009
White House Salaries
In: Politics
14 Nov 2009
Oil Demand
13 Nov 2009
2012 is just a number
12 Nov 2009A fantastic graphic laying out the doomsday arguments for the believers AND the skeptics. Great work from Information is Beautiful (as usual).
Piracy Watch
12 Nov 2009As a demo for their “visual fusion” software, idvsolutions has produced an interactive map and timeline of global ocean piracy. Not bad, though bing maps seems to be having trouble integrating with it a little.
Finance Timeline
11 Nov 2009
Good Design
11 Nov 2009From Information is Beautiful, a nice venn of what goes into good design – should be helpful when trying to figure out what’s missing from a graphic.
Motorcycle Fatalities
9 Nov 2009
Asian Pentagon/Spoke
9 Nov 2009I like the idea of using spokes for different series, though it could be confusing. I have no idea why they included the same data as pie charts, unless just as an example of how much clearer bar-charts are. (via)
That Time of Month
In: Science
9 Nov 2009From an odd little website called “I Heart Guts” which appears to focus on our innards, comes this colorful infographic of the menstrual cycle.
Race and Recession
9 Nov 2009The Applied Research Center has a report on race and the recession that includes a number of charts examining the breakdown of unemployment, earnings, and foreclosures, by race. (via)
Personalized Unemployment
9 Nov 2009How bad would it be for you if you lost your job? This NYT graphic lets you filter the unemployment statistics on several variables.
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- RJS: Highly entertaining this, however misleading it might be--if indeed it is misleading. The problem is [...]
- Al: Designers out there will enjoy this 'making of', walking through the designs they tried and discarde [...]
- Matt: Totally misleading. The recent spending cuts were not an Obama policy; Afghanistan was overwhelmingl [...]
- Mike Liveright: Two comments, though I do like the look and results... 1) Since $'s are linear, I think that a 2 [...]
- fatmike182: just a note concerning the photo of the car: it's an actual sculpture by the artist Erwin Wurm. Defi [...]