Culture Archive:
Death Rates
In: Culture Innovative Science
2 Nov 2009I like the shading of 2007 vs 2008 data. Note: I think this is just UK data.
Draw Your Accident
2 Nov 2009It’s a bit off-topic, but I like this niche little online tool for mapping out the scene of your own automobile accident.
Movie Charts
In: Culture Innovative
2 Nov 2009Tracks of plot, character, and events in several movies, with xkcd‘s usual wry humor on top. Thanks to Jonathon Marcus for pointing it out.
Since I hadn’t seen Primer, I looked it up on Wikipedia and they found the below timeline description of how time travel works in the movie:
Poverty in America
30 Oct 2009An interesting way to show geographic data that is obviously weighted by population – the author created a cloud of rough geographic position, but varied the size of the graphs by population.
Percent of married population now divorced or separated, by age.
Going for Broke
In: Culture Finance US Economy
28 Oct 2009
Swine Flu Mortality
28 Oct 2009This comparison of H1N1 deaths to other causes should help us keep our perspective (of course, you should also consider deaths among certain risk groups).
Before and After Humans
27 Oct 2009This is part informative and part just plain weird. The informative part is that you can click through the past 7 million years of the human evolutionary tree and view summaries of basic characteristics. The weird part is that it also allows you to click through the next 4 million years and see summaries of how we’re going to mess ourselves up. Apparently this is part of MSNBC’s “Fast Forward: The Future of Evolution” feature.
Health Care Demographics
25 Oct 2009The content is interesting, but I’m posting it just as much for being a good example of “many smalls” design, in this case small maps. (via)
Population Problems
23 Oct 2009A graphic of several countries’ population distribution. The related article points out that while many OECD countries are facing problems because of their aging population, many developing countries are dealing with the opposite. Uganda, for example has 70 percent of the population under 30.
If at First (or second) You Don’t Succeed
21 Oct 2009Percent of population that has been married three times or more (of those that have ever been married).
Stars and Stripes
20 Oct 2009More trivia than you can shake a flag at. (via)
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