Culture Archive:
Spam Spam Spam
2 Mar 2010From the New Scientist.
Six spam WordClouds:
History of the World in Objects
2 Mar 2010From the BBC. Use the slider on the right to scroll through history, then click on an object to see it’s significance; tons of filters on the left. (via)
Grocery Stores or Bars?
2 Mar 2010Go great lakes! (via FlowingData)
I’ve just started playing with this new online interactive visualization tool, but it looks fantastic.
Here are some examples of what other people have produced with it:
How Fast Can You Lose an Olympic Medal?
In: Culture Source: NYT Sports
28 Feb 2010For most, less than half a second. The NYT has graphed the finishing times of many Olympic events – and if you hit the play button at the left of the race it will play a tone-sound in real time for each finisher, illustrating just how little separated the medal winners from everyone else. Very cool! (via)
Olympic Pictograms
28 Feb 2010An entertaining video look at graphic design choices in the olympics.
Northeast Snowpocalypses
28 Feb 2010Biggest NE storms of all time. Strangely, excludes the Blizzard of ’77, which I remember in upstate NY.
Burgertime
27 Feb 2010Maps of fast food chain density using a gravity-like measure of influence.
The Secret to Life (for Depressed People)
25 Feb 2010An expansion on last week’s flowchart. (via)
The Female Sex Drive
25 Feb 2010More great work from okCupid in the same article “The Case for an Old Woman“. I’m posting it separately because of the great charts.
First up, a map of “Ideally, how often would you have sex?”. (Move the slider to change the age) 
Is contraception morally wrong: 
Sparklines of preferences:
Are You Too Old for Dating?
In: Culture
25 Feb 2010More fascinating analysis from the online dating site OkCupid. Submitted by Steve Danyo! Thanks!
Age of online daters: 
Male dating preferences: 
Female dating preferences:
And the killer:
Time Spent Retired
23 Feb 2010Official retirement ages have failed to keep pace with rising life expectancy, making pensions increasingly unaffordable. In practice many people in the rich-world OECD countries retire several years early, which lets them enjoy, on average, some 19 years in retirement before death.
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The 6 Most Statistically Full of Shit Professions
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26 Feb 2010It’s from Cracked magazine, so not entirely accurate – still an entertaining read, though.