2009 September - Chart Porn

Archive for September, 2009

Death is a Risk

25 Sep 2009

Fatality rates for a number of diseases, and fatality rate vs survival time outside the body (why you should wash your hands). Designed and researched beautifully by Information is Beautiful.

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Student Loans

In: Culture

25 Sep 2009

A look at the numbers (yes, students and parents are still getting screwed by overpriced education), originally by WallStats.

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EU Polyglots

In: Culture

24 Sep 2009

51% of europeans speak english. (via)

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EU Expenditure

In: Emerging Markets Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics

24 Sep 2009

EU 2007 spending by country, or on a map. (via)

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Extinction

In: Environment/weather

23 Sep 2009

26 well designed cards (though some more interesting information on each would have been nice) produced to draw attention to threatened species. Below is the Amur Tiger. From ArtistAsCitizen.

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This has got to be one of the silliest and content-lacking infographics I’ve seen in a while. The pie charts are almost useless, most of the icons indecipherable, and placing them over the faces of schoolchildren?!?

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Twitter Trends Map

In: Culture Interactive Maps

23 Sep 2009

Real time interactive map of tweets. Scroll in and see what people are talking about around the world.

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Ancient Graphic Design

In: Culture Graphic Design (general)

23 Sep 2009

The Aztec calendar stone is a great example of data density.

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Mickey-D Map

In: Culture Maps

23 Sep 2009

A map of the United States, colored by the distance to the nearest McDonalds. In case you were wondering, the furthest point from a McDonalds you can get to in the country is 107 miles (145 miles by car).

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Now I Know

In: Graphic Design (general) Innovative

23 Sep 2009

The differences between Arial and Helvetica fonts. (source)

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Poor Header

In: News Media

23 Sep 2009

The newspaper doesn’t always do that great a job of interpreting statistics. It appears someone in the graphics department forgot that the 2009 number was only for part of the event (or thought the footnote was sufficient). To be fair, according to this article, attendance was indeed up this year.

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Gadget Impact

In: Environment/weather Source: NYT

22 Sep 2009

While toys and appliances are getting more efficient – we are using more of them. Related NYT article. Again, hat tip to the keen eye of Paul Kedrosky.

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Google News Timeline

In: Interactive News Media

22 Sep 2009

Browse visually through the news of time period (month, day, year) Click on “add more queries” to control the content sources displayed. Filter by date, or do a search. Unfortunately only goes back to 2005.

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Branding

In: Culture Innovative Interactive

22 Sep 2009

A comparison of how brands are ranked over time. I’d question the methodology and meaning of these surveys, but the graphic is well designed and curiously interesting to play with. Spotted at Infectious Greed.

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Fun With [Banking] Data

In: Employment Finance Graphic Design (general) Reference US Economy

22 Sep 2009

The St. Louis Federal Reserve has an excellent graphing tool called Fred Graph. You can view a variety of economic (not just banking) data over any time period, add/delete series at will, and download the raw data. Below is an example of commercial, consumer, and real estate loans (1940-today); and the same data zoomed in on 2007-today (note the total absence of increased lending). To start, pick a data series from the Fred Page then click on the graph itself to bring up more design options.