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Click on any section of NYC to see the income distribution in that area, and what the average rents are. (via)
Click on a category to blow it up. From Flowingdata.
Washington DC is the highest, with 14 per 1,000 of population. I can’t help but wonder if these numbers are inherently not accurate (self-reporting, etc)
At 225,000 gross tonnes, Oasis of the Seas, one of two identical ships recently built for Royal Caribbean cruises, is 70,000 tonnes more and 21 metres longer than the previous record holder, Freedom of the Seas. By contrast, the Titanic, built by White Star Line nearly a century ago and at the time the largest steam ship ever, measured 269 metres and was less than a fifth of the size of today’s behemoths.
In: Culture Source: WSJ
1 Dec 2009A novel interactive shopping guide. Roll over items for names, sort using the options at the top. I don’t think I’ll do much shopping using this (the pictures are too small and having to roll over them to see what they are takes too long) – but it’s somewhat aesthetically pleasing.
Interactive map of the activities of the amfAR organization in 2008.
Animated map of the 1+ million transactions that happened on ebay. (via)
In: Culture
25 Nov 2009An addictive collection of beautiful charts, graphs, maps, and interactive data visualization toys -- on topics from around the world.