Bird Family Tree
In: Science
20 Dec 2012A Yale-led scientific team has produced the most comprehensive family tree for birds to date, connecting all living bird species — nearly 10,000 in total — and revealing surprising new details about their evolutionary history and its geographic context. (summary article; another)
It looks like someone did an amazing amount of research into bird diversification. But I can’t really understand all of what this visualization is telling me because the original article is hidden behind a paywall at Nature.
Pythagorean Theorem
In: Science
18 Dec 2012
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.
100 Riffs (a Brief History of Rock and Roll)
18 Dec 2012A cool real time synced visualization of guitar riffs and their matching tabs notations. Apparently the Soundslice site let’s you annotate any youtube video in such a way. I love internet functionality mashups like this.
Infographic SEO Spammers
14 Dec 2012I receive dozens of infographics a day. Most of them (besides being terrible) are obviously designed to promote a particular company or non-profit. However, there are also a lot concerning topics that have nothing to do with their original site– and I figured they were just link-bait for SEO chasers. Well, Dan Tynan did a little more digging in an article over at ITWorld, and it’s quite interesting.
17 Ways to Tie Shoes
12 Dec 2012
Caffeine Database
In: Food
12 Dec 2012Not really a chart, but it is an excellent interactive table for comparing the amount of caffeine in different drinks – both by total for a typical serving, and by the ounce.
London Underground 1932-33
12 Dec 2012I’ve always read how well designed HC Beck’s 1933 version of the London underground was. It only occurred to me the other day that I never had seen the old version for comparison. There are definitely significant improvements (…improvements that have proven very useful as the system grew further), but I can’t say it blows me away. Of course, that might be because we now view those design features as commonplace.
1932:
1933:
Nuclear Weapons, Reactors, and Mining
In: Science
12 Dec 2012At first I didn’t like it – too busy and radial diagrams are always annoying. Then I looked at the information and realized there was quite a lot there. Then I started looking at the legend and realized the information isn’t really clear. So now I don’t like it again.
Record Corporate After-tax Profits; Record Low Total Wages (1940-2012)
In: Employment US Economy
3 Dec 2012Not the prettiest chart, and maybe it should be an index instead of different axis, but the overall point remains the same.
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