Archive for January, 2010
Economic Recovery Dashboard (Jan 10 ver)
25 Jan 2010One 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.
India Macro Indicators
22 Jan 2010
Environment Performance Index
22 Jan 2010The Environmental Performance Index – developed by scientists at Columbia and Yale – aims to aggregate various countries’ performance across environmental indicators, and give each an overall mark out of 100.
Dropped Food
22 Jan 2010
Online Dating
22 Jan 2010OkCupid has analyzed data, messages, and photos from it’s dating site and come up with some interesting (and highly entertaining) advice. Ok cupid articles: Photos; First Messages. (via Information is Beautiful).
What kind of picture should you post? 
What to say in a first message: 
Mention religion? 
Upgrades 2
22 Jan 2010Ok, that was easy. FYI, I recommend Innohosting.com for all your hosting needs; they smooth over any bumps quickly and are always patient with (stupid) questions. We now return you to your regularly scheduled chart porn.
Upgrades
20 Jan 2010Hey everyone, I’m upgrading the site to expand capacity, so things may be a little wonky for the next few days. Hang in there and I’ll post new stuff soon.
Bing Destination Maps
20 Jan 2010Sending directions to a party? Want to embed a funky map somewhere? Bing now offers “Destination maps” that look like a choice of four stylistic hand drawings. The production interface is a little clunky, and the result doesn’t appear to allow for quick access to directions, but I think the result is pretty cool. Apparently this is only one of Bing’s new “Map Apps” (click on the button at the bottom of that page)
Obama Approval Ratings
20 Jan 2010Interactive timeline of approval since inauguration. Some dates are annotated. Apparently the Guardian used the Real Clear Politics rating (2nd chart), which is an average of many different polls – nice! And while we’re at it, USAToday’s Approval Tracker allows you to compare presidents’ ratings since Truman and is updated regularly.
Abortions by State
20 Jan 2010Abortions per live birth, and total abortions, with color coding whether a state voted republican or democratic in the last election.
Why I Don’t Watch Football
In: Culture Source: WSJ
20 Jan 2010The Wall Street Journal did an analysis of what actually takes place onscreen while watching a football game. Even excluding commercials it still looks like a huge waste of time. Related article. (via Sociological Images)
New Haiti Satellite Pictures
20 Jan 2010Google has released a series of higher quality satellite pictures taken on Jan 17th. Crazy resolution of the destruction.
Understanding Haiti’s Earthquakes
20 Jan 2010
Global Pharmaceutical Prices
19 Jan 2010
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