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UK Government Salaries
17 Nov 2009From the Queen on down. Click on “fullscreen” to vew a large zoomable version. Related Guardian article. (via)
Who is Paying Taxes
In: Politics US Economy
17 Nov 2009You always see these stats chopped apart to make one side or other happy – it’s nice to see it just laid out clearly.
China vs United States
16 Nov 2009Comparison of some economic and financial indicators
Recruitment Up
16 Nov 2009A slightly different measure of unemployment – this one based on online job listings (the Monster.com employment index).
Europe’s Finance Ministers
16 Nov 2009Interactive ranking of performance on several factors.
Marijuana Legalization
16 Nov 2009Infographic on potential tax receipts and savings. (via)
Great Lakes Infographic
16 Nov 2009Combines relative elevation, depth, and volume. I’m not so sure they needed to be overlapping (maybe vertically staked would have been better?), but it’s still a nice graphic. (from wikipedia’s Great Lakes page, via Kelso’s corner)
Exploding Empires (1800-2004)
16 Nov 2009A strange visualization of the decline of imperialism – colonies explode out as they are granted independence. (via)
Political Map
15 Nov 2009Use the slider to browse the changing political makeup of America, 1960-today.
White House Salaries
In: Politics
14 Nov 2009It’s hard to keep up with all the data sets that make it up onto many eyes.
Oil Demand
13 Nov 2009oil demand, 1980; 2008; 2030?
2012 is just a number
12 Nov 2009A fantastic graphic laying out the doomsday arguments for the believers AND the skeptics. Great work from Information is Beautiful (as usual).
Piracy Watch
12 Nov 2009As a demo for their “visual fusion” software, idvsolutions has produced an interactive map and timeline of global ocean piracy. Not bad, though bing maps seems to be having trouble integrating with it a little.
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