Culture Archive:
Olympic Tweets
15 Feb 2010Interactive twitter tracker on NBC. (via)
Sesame Muppets
In: Culture
15 Feb 2010Interactive guide to 101 muppets from Sesame Street – but it seems to have left out most of my Henson favorites from the Muppet Show. (via)
Time Travel in TV and Movies
In: Culture Innovative
15 Feb 2010The content is a bit pointless, but the post on Information is Beautiful goes into interesting detail on the processes and choices that go into making one of these data dense designs.
Olympics: it begins
In: Culture
12 Feb 2010I am sure there is about to be a flood of Olympic related infographics. Here are a few to get you started:
Schedule (NBC): 
NYT Olympics Schedule tracker (adjusts to your local time): 
Curling: 
Bobsledding: 
NYT Interactive Venues: 
Slideshow of all winter olympic posters: 
And NBC has a very well designed free IPhone App for the Olympics, with schedules, streaming video, etc. (search for “NBC Olympics” in the Iphone App store).
Snowpocalypse 2010
11 Feb 2010If you live in the Mid-Atlantic this makes a lot of sense to you right now. Thanks to Allison and Bernard for passing it on.
Volunteers in America
5 Feb 2010Good data on who volunteered where in 2009. I’ll spare you my usual critique of Good’s visualization choices.
State of the Internet
In: Culture
5 Feb 2010Some nice perspective data. Apparently it’s for Q309. Thanks to VizWorld for posting it.
The Rising Cost of Death
In: Culture
5 Feb 2010How much a standard funeral costs today. Also shows cremation rates by state – but doesn’t say how much cremation costs – probably because this was created by a life insurance org. (via)
Art and Culture Timelines
In: Culture Innovative
5 Feb 2010Some beautiful and fascinating hand drawn/painted timelines from artist Ward Shelley on a wide variety of topics. Interesting write-up on motivation and methods from the artist. (via)
The evolution of the Avant Garde art scene: 
Frank Zappa: 
Rock genres: 
Andy Warhol’s world: 
Data Fiction
5 Feb 2010Something a little different today: A fictional story told through data visualizations. The link below goes to the flickr version, while a larger presentation appears on designer Kim Asendorf’s website. I definitely love the idea and the execution — of course, visualizations are probably a little easier to create when you get to make up the data. 🙂
Inflated Worth
2 Feb 2010A little silly, but the size of the CEOs head shows his pay vs the average worker 1970-2005.
Heavy Medal
2 Feb 2010Interactive bar chart of Olympic medals divided by GDP. Rollover for details. (via VizWorld)
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