Culture Archive:
Plots vs attacks, and average age of terrorists.
Junk Food Decision Tree
23 Nov 2009A reasonably accurate mapping of choices. Thanks to Sandy for pointing it out to me. and I just noticed there’s one on the same site for cereal.
Relationship Venn
20 Nov 2009Because its Friday. something a little more entertaining – and it’s actually a nice combination of venn and axis chart styles.
Corruption 2009
20 Nov 2009Interactive map of Transparency International’s 2009 “Corruption Perception Index”. (via)
Ethics vs Salary
20 Nov 2009summary: ethics doesn’t pay well. actually, according to this, nothing pays very well. More data is probably needed.
Marijuana Legalization
16 Nov 2009Infographic on potential tax receipts and savings. (via)
2012 is just a number
12 Nov 2009A fantastic graphic laying out the doomsday arguments for the believers AND the skeptics. Great work from Information is Beautiful (as usual).
Motorcycle Fatalities
9 Nov 2009Stylized statistics (perhaps overly so). (via)
Race and Recession
9 Nov 2009The Applied Research Center has a report on race and the recession that includes a number of charts examining the breakdown of unemployment, earnings, and foreclosures, by race. (via)
Dogs are Bad for the Environment
8 Nov 2009An odd graphic looking at the green footprint of pets; based on a New Scientist article.
Deadly Drugs
8 Nov 2009A comparison of mortality rates of various legal and illegal drugs.
Wine Wheel
In: Culture Interactive
5 Nov 2009An attempt to categorize types of wine by aroma, sensation, flavor, and “characteristic”.
NBA Schedule Heatmap
In: Culture
3 Nov 2009A nice heatmap contrasting home vs away games over the season. Thanks to Serhat Ugur for pointing it out!
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