Innovative Archive:

Sony pictures sponsored these awesome flowcharts to promote the upcoming movie “How Do You Know”. The best part is you don’t see the whole chart at once – you make your choices, and it reveals just those results (why is this the first time I’ve seen this done!? It’s so simple.). Created by Jetset Studios.

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Lee Bryon created this lovely sankey diagram outlining the many ways a relationship can end.  (via)

Sankey tree diagram of relationship exploring options from beginning to end

Ok, the content of this chart is nothing new – and the intent is basically linkbait. But the design is fairly intriguing: it’s an exploding map to a badly overlapped radial chart, with categories. It both works and doesn’t work. I love it and hate it at the same time. Bravo!

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Formula 1

In: Innovative Sports

30 Nov 2010

Stunningly beautiful graphics on Formula 1 tracks and races, by Luis Chumpitaz. He even managed to make bilingual diagrams looks good. (Thanks to William Navarro for the link.)

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Some airlines (Southwest and Jetblue) have made choosing flights an almost pleasant experience by clearly presenting available flights and costs — most other airlines still suck. Hipmunk is a new flight search tool which applies some simple design techniques to aggregate options clearly. I also love that they have a “sort by agony” option which combines price, duration, and layovers. (via FlowingData)

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OkTrends has analyzed it’s database of user behavior to examine several rumors about homosexual behavior, compared to heterosexuals.  Not surprisingly, none of them are true.  The whole article is fascinating.

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An interesting radial variation on a scatter plot, displaying multiple variable from 50 states. It’s . (via the promising new visualization site Visualizing.org)

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A great monthly status board for market and economic indicators. Click on anything – the popup details are great.

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Stanford Student Vadim Ogievetsky is writing some software to allow the automated creation of timeline charts like XKCD’s “Interactions of Move Characters”.  I didn’t dig too deep into this, but there’s lots of detail there is you’re interested. (via)

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Dshort always has interesting medium/long-term analyses. I really like the representation of historic tax brackets in the bottom half of this one (based on data from taxfoundation.org)

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Harsh, but innovative (even though it came out in 2005). Additional info on the campaign.

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Ok, I’d like to think they were inspired by my earlier post — but probably not.

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I really like the design. What would be fabulous is if people could use existing online tools for transport schedules, but annotate them with their real experience. (via)

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From the World Economic Forum, based on this year’s Global Risk report. Thanks to Sean R. for passing it on!

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Updated tools from Google to design your own gapminder type maps, graphs, and animations. Has been updated with recent World Bank, OECD, and other datasets. (via).

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