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6 May 2010

The Washington Post’s new “Post Politics” online section has an excellent map of elections (Senate, House, and Governor), all updated regularly. Click around for a while – there are a large number of filters, drill downs, and highlights to play with.

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Car Company Alliances

In: Global Economy Interactive Source: FT

5 May 2010

Mouse over any company to see the overlaps and connections. Related articles.

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Deficit Busters

In: Finance Interactive Politics Source: FT US Economy

4 May 2010

Select a UK political party, then choose what programs cuts you would make to lower the deficit – then see the effects of those cuts. Why have we never seen one of these in the United States?

Hmmmm. turns out there have been some attempts in the US.

From the LA Times on the California budget:

From the Congressional Budget Office:

Massachusetts budget calculator (from 2008, I think)

Anyone know of better ones?

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Europe Debt Maps

In: Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: NYT

4 May 2010

The NYT uses several annotated maps to explain EU problems.

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European Dominoes

In: Emerging Markets Global Economy Interactive Politics

3 May 2010

How the PIIGS are connected. An interactive from the Guardian.

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Flickr Tag Galaxy

In: Culture Interactive Internet/tech

26 Apr 2010

Interesting way of browsing Flickr photos – you enter a tag and then drill down the solar systems of related tags until you get to the subset you want; then it displays them on a 3d globe. Thanks to Wil Etheredge for passing it on.

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Global Interest Rate Tracker

In: Finance Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics Source: WSJ Updated regularly US Economy

26 Apr 2010

Central bank rates from 2004-present (updated 4/20). See how countries are exiting from their stimulus policies.

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Economic Indicators Dashboard (Apr ‘10 ver)

In: Employment Finance Housing Interactive Stock Market US Economy

23 Apr 2010

One of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. Click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.

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European Airport Status Map

In: Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: WSJ

19 Apr 2010

Looks like they might be updating this periodically (was showing 9:50am Monday when I posted). Related article.

Here’s another one from the Guardian that also shows the spread of the ash over time:

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Dirty Priest Relocation Map

In: Culture Interactive Maps

15 Apr 2010

Click on any line to get a popup of the details of that case.

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UK Party Lines

In: Interactive Politics Source: FT

15 Apr 2010

Interactive guide to the views of the Labour, Conservative, and Liberal Democrat parties on various issues.

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Census Participation Map

In: Interactive Maps Politics

12 Apr 2010

See how well your community is responding to the census:

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Atlas of Global Conservation

In: Environment/weather Interactive Maps Science Source: Washington Post

12 Apr 2010

The Nature Conservancy has developed an atlas of ecodiversity and conservation. The hard copy will be published on Earth Day 2010, but some maps are available online now.(Related Washington Post article and photo gallery).

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Tiger Tiger

In: Interactive Sports

8 Apr 2010

How he’s doing at the Master’s – hole by hole, compared to previous years:

The Tiger economy:

A little dated, but this interactive lets you compare statistics 1997-2008:

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Many Bills: US Legislation Library

In: Interactive Politics Reference

8 Apr 2010

IBM has coupled with Many Eyes to create a visualization warehouse of US Congressional legislation. It’s a pretty complicated tool, so definitely watch the “quick tour”. Pick a search word and go exploring. You can explode just the relevant parts, view earlier versions, read the whole thing, and save them as favorites.