Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Grocery Stores or Bars?
2 Mar 2010
Snake Oil Supplements
27 Feb 2010A beautiful interactive visualization of the effectiveness of various health supplements from Information is Beautiful, based on scientific research. Use the roll up menu on the right hand side to filter by condition. You can also view the raw research data they dug up to draw your own conclusions.
Burgertime
27 Feb 2010Maps of fast food chain density using a gravity-like measure of influence.
Organic Food
In: Food
15 Feb 2010Of particular interest is the table at the bottom indicating organic price premiums.
Dropped Food
In: Food| Humor| Source: FlowingData
22 Jan 2010
Harvest Timeline
In: Culture| Food| Infographic (clever)
19 Jan 2010
Caffeine Delivery Vehicles
11 Jan 2010I don’t think most people realize that coffee usually has more than twice the caffeine of a Red Bull.
100 Years of Consumer Spending
In: Culture| Food| US Economy
6 Jan 2010I really don’t like area charts much. They should at least show the beginning and ending percentages for each section. I’m a little surprised food has declined so much.
The Economist Big Mac Index
6 Jan 2010THE Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP)-exchange rates should equalise the price of a basket of goods in different countries. The exchange rate that leaves a Big Mac costing the same in dollars everywhere is our fair-value benchmark. So our light-hearted index shows which countries the foreign-exchange market has blessed with a cheap currency, and which has it burdened with a dear one.
Why are Europeans White? Cereal?!
14 Dec 2009
Junk Food Decision Tree
23 Nov 2009A reasonably accurate mapping of choices. Thanks to Sandy for pointing it out to me. and I just noticed there’s one on the same site for cereal.
Why You Have a Nose
23 Oct 2009There are two evolutionary reasons for having a nose, runs one theory. The first is to ascertain whether it would be safe to put something in your mouth – to gauge edibility. The second is to advise about whether it would be a good idea to run away
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