Archive for November, 2009

Use the slider to browse the changing political makeup of America, 1960-today.

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White House Salaries

In: Politics

14 Nov 2009

It’s hard to keep up with all the data sets that make it up onto many eyes.

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Yet another depressing graphic:

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oil demand, 1980; 2008; 2030?

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A fantastic graphic laying out the doomsday arguments for the believers AND the skeptics. Great work from Information is Beautiful (as usual).

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Piracy Watch

In: Maps Reference

12 Nov 2009

As 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.

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From the FT: Major changes and crises in the history of finance since 1914.

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From 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.

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Harsh Dilbert

In: Humor US Economy

11 Nov 2009

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Stylized statistics (perhaps overly so). (via)

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I 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)

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That Time of Month

In: Science

9 Nov 2009

From an odd little website called “I Heart Guts” which appears to focus on our innards, comes this colorful infographic of the menstrual cycle.

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The 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)

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How 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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