Interactive Archive:
Health Care Bill Comparison
14 Oct 2009An interactive descriptive comparison of the provisions of the different health care bills in congress, with additional info on the White House’s preferences.
2010 Ski Resort Guide
In: Culture Interactive
13 Oct 2009A very nice interactive radial design based on Ski Magazine’s 2010 survey. The resorts are separately ranked for the East and West. Click on the color scale at the bottom to see ranking by category, or click on a resort to see a more detailed write-up and links to their websites.
Nobelity
13 Oct 2009A timeline of Nobel Peace Prize award winners since 1994:
and the pre-announcement bookie odds on who the winner was going to be:
GOLD!
13 Oct 2009An annotated timeline of landmarks in gold prices.
Currency Trends
In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Interactive Source: FT US Economy
13 Oct 2009The FT takes a graphic look at a number of currency trends (dollar/euro, carry trade, commodity currencies, the renminbi, and a trade weighted exchange index). [the links on the below images all go to the same interactive tool]
Health Care Bill Comparison
13 Oct 2009Interactive of the cost, coverage, and provisions of congress’s three health care bills.
The well designed map displays unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy, or a composite “stress index”, by county. In the upper right you can change the period the %-change is calculated for (try it, it’s pretty nifty). To look at data over time, click on the “Oct.2007 to present” option and a historical slider will appear at the bottom (very slick to play with). Double click on a region to zoom in; click & hold to move around.
Instrumental Range
6 Oct 2009A wonderful interactive chart showing the frequency range of various musical instruments and how they correspond to human hearing.
Airline Delays
In: Culture Interactive Maps
30 Sep 2009Juice Analytics has put together two visualizations of air travel.
The first is a treemap where size equals number of flights, and you can filters the color to either indicate number or type of delays.
The second is a map showing the number of flights and the delay statistics. (note, click on “Airport Delay Map” in the title to switch to the map)
International Housing Indicators
In: Global Economy Housing Innovative Interactive Source: Economist Updated regularly
28 Sep 2009The Economist just released a nice new tool for looking at several housing indicators across major countries. They plan to expand and update it as more information becomes available.
EU Expenditure
In: Emerging Markets Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics
24 Sep 2009EU 2007 spending by country, or on a map. (via)
Twitter Trends Map
In: Culture Interactive Maps
23 Sep 2009Real time interactive map of tweets. Scroll in and see what people are talking about around the world.
Google News Timeline
22 Sep 2009Browse visually through the news of time period (month, day, year) Click on “add more queries” to control the content sources displayed. Filter by date, or do a search. Unfortunately only goes back to 2005.
Branding
22 Sep 2009A comparison of how brands are ranked over time. I’d question the methodology and meaning of these surveys, but the graphic is well designed and curiously interesting to play with. Spotted at Infectious Greed.
Bailout Matrices
21 Sep 2009I question the value of “Bold/Weak” as an axis. but it’s still interesting to look at. Related CNNMoney article.
More interesting: Change in stock price one year later, versus level of federal assistance:
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