Global Economy Archive:
UK Government Salaries
17 Nov 2009From the Queen on down. Click on “fullscreen” to vew a large zoomable version. Related Guardian article. (via)
Recruitment Up
16 Nov 2009A slightly different measure of unemployment – this one based on online job listings (the Monster.com employment index).
Europe’s Finance Ministers
16 Nov 2009Interactive ranking of performance on several factors.
Oil Demand
13 Nov 2009oil demand, 1980; 2008; 2030?
Finance Timeline
11 Nov 2009From the FT: Major changes and crises in the history of finance since 1914.
Asian Pentagon/Spoke
9 Nov 2009I like the idea of using spokes for different series, though it could be confusing. I have no idea why they included the same data as pie charts, unless just as an example of how much clearer bar-charts are. (via)
Government Spending
5 Nov 2009Not a very accurate scale.
Global Life and Death
29 Oct 2009A data packed international comparison of health statistics. I give Good a lot of grief for the design of some of their infographics, but this one is well done. (via Simple Complexity)
Rigged Trade Rules
In: Global Economy
27 Oct 2009Oxfam has produced a series of six simple, but effective and entertaining, animations that argue how global trade practices are hurting developing countries.
UK Quantitative Easing
26 Oct 2009Cumulative total of gilt purchases by the Bank of England. Related article. <insert generic comment about how the mind doesn’t easily distinguish arc lengths in spiral charts>
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.
Russia vs USA
23 Oct 2009
Human Transportation
20 Oct 2009Similar in concept to the US McDonalds map, this map colors how long it takes to get to a city of 50,000 people from any location in the world. (via Simple Complexity & Visual Complexity)
the same New Scientist gallery has a map of roads, trains, shipping lanes, and navigable rivers (we’re pretty much everywhere).
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