Archive for the ‘Interactive’ Category

A nice interactive tool from the AP that explains the health reform bills, including a “you” filter that explains what provisions will affect you based on your age and current insurance.

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Nice summary from the WSJ: The Summary, the questions, and the results (1880-2000).

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The average size of stock trades has been shrinking in the medium term.

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note: if you have trouble seeing the FT grapic try a google search for the article name “Average trade size on top world stock exchanges” and click on the link there.

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From the BBC. Use the slider on the right to scroll through history, then click on an object to see it’s significance; tons of filters on the left. (via)

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Comparison of metropolitan areas by wealth.

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More great work from okCupid in the same article “The Case for an Old Woman“. I’m posting it separately because of the great charts.

First up, a map of “Ideally, how often would you have sex?”. (Move the slider to change the age)
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Is contraception morally wrong:
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Sparklines of preferences:

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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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“Drag the slider to see how staff compensation at these major banks relates to revenue and net income over time and see which bank pays their employees the most on average.”

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Memory

In: Interactive| Science

17 Feb 2010

Ok, the animations in this one are incredible and slightly freaky. They rotate, color, and pop open your head in 3D to explain in clear detail how we input, process, and forget things. Very nice.

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A cool interactive map that shows the translation of many US geographic names that have native american origins.

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Highly stylized. Too many of the controls seem to be conveying the same information. (via)

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There’s also a map version:

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Interactive twitter tracker on NBC. (via)

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An impressively detailed mapping analysis of settlements in disputed territories over time. Related article.

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Job losses/gains. Use the timeline slider at the top to change the month. The bubbles at the bottom showing the overall size of the sectors are a nice touch.

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About this blog

A collection of interesting charts, tables, maps, and interactive data toys -- with a focus on economics and graphic design. Enormous thanks to the bloggers who help find all this stuff, and the wonderful researchers, analysts, and graphic artists who create them.

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