Culture Archive:
RSA Animations
28 Jun 2010The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) has been producing a series of fascinating animated info-lectures on a variety of topics. Below is a sampling.
on time:
on being "happy!":
Superfreakonomics:
2009: How Americans Spent Their Time
28 Jun 2010Roll-over details alleviate the normal pie-chart problems (somewhat). However, who averages 8.6 hours of sleep a day and only 3.5 hours of work? Maybe I’m just not average. The related article talks about the impact of higher unemployment on this data.
Education Documentary Trailer
21 Jun 2010Video infographics seem to be a growing trend. Here’s a well animated one in the form of a promotional for the education documentary “Waiting for Superman” (by Davis Guggenheim, who did An Inconvenient Truth). Note: if you want to see the whole movie, it is being shown as part of this weeks Silverdocs Film Festival in Washington, DC.
World Wine
21 Jun 2010A collection of interactives from the FT:
Drill down maps of each region:
Grape varieties, and production stats:
Green Death
In: Culture
16 Jun 2010Standard vs Green burial methods. Burial always struck me as kind of stupid in general. (via)
Flowchart: Should you Get the New [x]?
16 Jun 2010Highly accurate. (via)
Non-Geographic Mapping: Transportation
In: Culture Graphic Design (general) Interactive Maps Science
16 Jun 2010An example of dynamic re-mapping.
Map: Same-Sex Marriage Laws
16 Jun 2010updated 6/2010
American Migrations: 2008
16 Jun 2010More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement.
Color Strata
9 Jun 2010A beautiful chart of the most popular colors (based on the xkcd survey data).
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