History Archive:
Timeline of World Religions
29 Jan 2013I’m not expert enough on any of these to say whether this is accurate or not. A clear explanation of what the different colors and line widths would have been helpful.
Some other versions:
Travel Speed (1800-1930)
11 Jan 2013Sure, the internet and the information revolution has been fun. But before that there was the communication revolution. And before that, it was transportation:
(original source: 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, which has a number of other cool historical maps)
2012 Hottest Year on Record
9 Jan 2013
Video Games (1975-2011)
21 Dec 2012Games by genre, and games by platform. Labeling the axis might have been useful – I assume it’s supposed to be percent of total, with the space at top “other”? I tried to find the original source for this, but had no luck.
Timeline Wizardry
20 Dec 2012Timelines are underutilized visualization tools – partially because they are a huge pain in the ass to create. Nate Kogan describes his experience using Timeline.Verite.Co’s nifty javascript timeline creation tool to convert stories stored in a google spreadsheet into a beautiful way to view history.
What’s Killing People
18 Dec 2012The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation collects detailed information on global health issues, and produces a number of interesting visualizations.
How people died in 2010 – by cause, age, and filterable by sex and region:
Life expectancy in the US (1989-2009). Who knew it varied so much?
Drill-downable US Causes of Death (1970-2006)
and many many more.
Oskar Fischinger
18 Dec 2012I dabble in VJ’ing, and it’s amazing what you can do with todays tools, like Resolume. But take a look at what Oskar Fischinger did back in 1938 with pieces of paper hanging from wires in his synesthetic interpretation of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody. Amazing. Actually, it’s kind of embarrassing. We are so spoiled.
US Weather Disasters (1980-2011)
19 Nov 2012
Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and Fires
1 Nov 2012
US Congress: Left and Right
29 Oct 2012Another beauty from xkcd. I’m a little dubious of the methodology behind the liberal/conservative distinctions, but they’re upfront and clear about what is being displayed.
You’re Too Old to be King?
In: History
25 Sep 2012Ages and reigns of famous leaders throughout history. The coverage is a little odd. Mao but not Castro? No Khans?
Here’s a similar chart of the empires themselves. I’m told this is an awesome graphic, but I can’t read Italian.
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