Archive for January, 2010
Required Vacation
In: Employment| US Economy
31 Jan 2010USA compared to other OECD countries. (Yes, we’re screwed).
Crowdsourcing Crisis Management
In: Culture| Environment/weather| Global Economy| Maps| Science
31 Jan 2010
Amount of aid by country. I think the graphics are supposed to be parachutes.
Election 2010
In: Maps| Politics| Source: WSJ
31 Jan 2010Analysis of close races, updated 1/29/10, and includes both House and Senate this time.
Winter Weather – ummmm and More Weather
In: Environment/weather| Interactive| Maps| Science| Source: USA Today
29 Jan 2010I think most of us absorbed this in earth science class, but if you need a refresher on how different air layers create different types of precipitation, here it is. (Also, the animations are quite pretty).
Looking around the site it turns out this is just one in a very large series of weather related interactives. Check it out. Some very cool stuff, including my hometown favorite: Lake Effect Snow (Irondequoit, NY).
USA Today Economic Outlook Index (Jan ‘10 version)
In: Employment| Finance| Housing| Interactive| Source: USA Today| Stock Market| US Economy
29 Jan 2010The best part is the lower chart showing the latest data for each of the 11 “leading indicators”. Updated 1/27/09.
High Speed Rail in the USA
In: Source: WSJ| US Economy
29 Jan 2010Interactive map of major projects (new funding was announce 1/28/10), with popup details. Related article.
How to Suck at Facebook
29 Jan 2010Ok, this is not terribly chart-related, but it’s just too damn accurate to pass up. I’ll post some boring statistical stuff soon to balance it out. Thanks to Kate Alexandra for passing it on.
Geek Hierarchy
28 Jan 2010Fairly accurate. Could benefit from an updating.
Electromagnetic Spectrum
In: Science
28 Jan 2010I like all the explanatory boxes on the side.
Of course, there’s the slightly less scientific, but more memorable xkcd version:
I think these have made the rounds before, but I just saw them for the first time.
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- Rich Mithoff: Love the very last chart...apparently they counted the number of idiots. Maybe we need to bring tha [...]
- Jesse: Talk about chart porn! [...]
- Dustin: A, Something like that would help a lot. I see that you already added that for France. I understa [...]
- CJ: What does the brown/yellow one (How the Internet is accessed) supposed to represent? Two of the slic [...]
- A Cassel: Thanks for the critique. Would your concern be addressed if each country's text balloon included the [...]