Food Archive:

Another cool proximity map from Weather Sealed. This one of 330 retail chain company locations.

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Would have preferred to see this info in chart form. (via)

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Nice design work – both in concept and the presentation.

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From Bundle.com based on data from Citi.

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USDA Economic Research service has some interesting charts on long term trends. (via)

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Cool maps of farming, via Sociological images and F.A.D (check them out for some discussion), originally from Radical Cartography.

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And a cool historical map of global cropland use:
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Go great lakes! (via FlowingData)

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A beautiful interactive visualization of the effectiveness of various health supplements from Information is Beautiful, based on scientific research. Use the roll up menu on the right hand side to filter by condition. You can also view the raw research data they dug up to draw your own conclusions.

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Burgertime

In: Culture Food Maps

27 Feb 2010

Maps of fast food chain density using a gravity-like measure of influence.

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Organic Food

In: Food

15 Feb 2010

Of particular interest is the table at the bottom indicating organic price premiums.

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Dropped Food

In: Food Humor

22 Jan 2010

Decision tree (which somehow does not mentioned the 5 second rule). (via FlowingData)

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