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Global Peace Index (2007-11)
7 Jun 2011Based on 23 indicators. Iceland and New Zealand are at the top, with Somalia and Iraq at the bottom. (original study)
There is also a nice video explaining some of the results and changes over last year.
Beget Begot
In: Culture
25 May 2011Zoomable genealogy of people in the bible, starting with Adam and Eve. I imagine there are dozens of these out there – but I don’t really care enough to find them. If you want an example of why not, go lookup online discussions as to whether Joseph and Mary were really both descendents of David. (via)
Locals vs Tourists
In: Culture Innovative Maps
25 May 2011An analysis of implied preference based on Flickr photos. Blue photos are by locals, red by tourists, yellow could be either. Below are NYC and Washington DC; other cities are available. (via)
Marriage and Divorce
In: Culture Source: WSJ
23 May 2011Flowing Data created some nice charts about trends in marriage based on the just released census survey data on Marriage and Divorce.
The original report has some very interesting tables, and includes data on divorces, for which the median length of the marriage was 8 years. The below chart indicated some surprising(?) differences in divorce trends between racial groups.
In related marriage research, the authors of the book "Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage and Dirty Dishes", created the below infographic based on a survey of 1,100 married people.
Rapture Flowchart
20 May 2011In case it’s relevant to your weekend plans.
Thanks to Caryn Sykes for the link!
MacGyver’s Recipes
In: Culture
20 May 2011Interactive episode guide to all of MacGyver’s tricks and tool improvisations. One of my personal favorites: used a light bulb to melt water onto the lock of a freezer so that the water re-froze and expanded, breaking the lock (season1:7). Ummmm – sure!
(note: I had trouble getting this site to render properly on some computers)
Sitting is Killing You
19 May 2011Obvious link bait, but I have to confess that I love the colors and the chart-junk choices. Also, I know from personal experience that sitting all day is bad for us. Thanks to Megan Fowler for the link.
Daft Punk Mashup Visualized
In: Culture Innovative
18 May 2011The Man in Blue decided to visualize his own Daft Punk mashup using concentric colored waveforms, rendered in real time using html5 and CSS3. Very nice!
Art Professors (and Porn)
10 May 2011These two charts aren’t related, but they’re both kind of silly, so I’m posting them together.
Omnibus of Superpowers
In: Culture
6 May 2011A tree of over 100 super powers and 200 super-powered heroes and villains as examples. I think it would have been better without the examples.
Bin Laden’s Death Causes Record Tweets
In: Culture Internet/tech
3 May 2011Over 5000 per second. (via)
Less depressing, the same flickr feed also has cool video of tweets per second on New Year’s Eve 2010 – you can watch midnight travel around the globe.
How (not) Fat Are You Really?
In: Culture Source: NYT
27 Apr 2011This graphic illustrates how a “size 8” differs across designers. You might recall this similar chart on men’s pants sizes from last fall. (related article)
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