Archive for February, 2010

More fascinating analysis from the online dating site OkCupid. Submitted by Steve Danyo! Thanks!

Age of online daters:
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Male dating preferences:
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Female dating preferences:

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And the killer:

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Thanks to Stephen Dobson for the heads up.

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Official retirement ages have failed to keep pace with rising life expectancy, making pensions increasingly unaffordable. In practice many people in the rich-world OECD countries retire several years early, which lets them enjoy, on average, some 19 years in retirement before death.

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As we head into world cup season – via Ben Huxley.

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One of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. Click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.

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Drug Abuse

In: Culture

22 Feb 2010

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Breasts

In: Culture Science

22 Feb 2010

Some basic facts.

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Nice article about Jeff Clark’s visualization work including the below twitter venn (enter three terms and see how they overlap).(via)

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EU Money

In: Global Economy

19 Feb 2010

What members pay and receive from the EU budget.

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Juice Analytics has a very nice article about how to select from all the chart types available today.

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Where states get their money from. An interesting distribution. (via)

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I recently had to animate some morphing for a presentation, and came across the below. Stunning and beautiful (the music selection is kind of annoying, though)

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We are FAT

In: Culture Maps Science

19 Feb 2010

The CDC has a number of maps tracking rising obesity levels (1985-2008). Thanks to Allison for passing them on.

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