Interactive Archive:
G20 Pittsburgh
21 Sep 2009Interactive tool for grasping what the G20 has said, and done, over the last three summits.
In depth G20 coverage from the FT is available here.
Company Political Contributions
18 Sep 2009Click on a logo to sort all companies in that sector by party contributions, then click again for pop-up details. I love this both because I like the object oriented use of the logos, and the data results are very interesting to browse this way.
Job Voyager
18 Sep 2009Along the lines of the baby name voyager and meme map, here you can type in an occupation and compare employment from 1850-2000. (try “economist”) Spotted over at Infectious Greed.
Global Debt
In: Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics Source: Economist
18 Sep 2009From the Economist, an interactive map and clock of global debt (1999-2011). Spotted over at Infectious Greed.
UK Government Spending
16 Sep 2009Click below for the PDF. There’s also an audio annotated interactive version. From the Guardian.
Lehman Diaspora
16 Sep 2009Move the timeline slider and watch former Lehman employees scatter to their new jobs. Click on blocks to see individual stories.
Crisis Timeline
16 Sep 2009Call up monthly slivers of data and related news for 6 financial market indicators (dow, treasury yields, libor, commercial yields, CDS spreads, mortgage backed spreads).
Hot Air Inventory
In: Humor Interactive Politics
15 Sep 2009Compare any two members of the 110th (2007-08) US congress, by amount of words spoken, votes, and even a nice little word cloud.
NYT News Classifier
15 Sep 2009Uses “elastic lists” to find articles. Much better than the normal search
Economic Recovery Dashboard (9/15/09 update)
In: Employment Finance Innovative Interactive Reference Updated regularly US Economy
15 Sep 2009Here is this month’s update of one of my favorite presentations of economic indicators, from Russell Investments. Includes trending, useful popups, drill down links to historical data, and good descriptions of each indicator. It’s really everything an economic dashboard should look like. (ok, maybe they could animate it over time.)
Winners and Losers
13 Sep 2009Animation of Wall Street’s Market cap from October 07 through today.
Homeland Insecurity
In: Humor Interactive Politics
13 Sep 2009An interactive timeline of the US terror alert level. I was just flying last week and wondering how long we had been on Orange (high) with nothing happening. Spotted at Information Aethestics.
and because it seems relevant, a favorite from Wondermark:
Rising Health Insurance Costs
In: Interactive Maps Politics
13 Sep 2009Roll over a state to compare costs in 1996 to 2006. Colors show number of uninsured workers (should have shown percentages).
MSNBC Spectra Visual Newsreader
11 Sep 2009Yet another news aggregator visualization. But this one spins and is in color!! Ok, perhaps that’s a little snarky — there is some clever design here, but I question how useful it is – maybe if it was on a wall sized touchscreen or something.
Guantanamo Tracker
10 Sep 2009AP seems very into tracking things lately. thankfully they are doing it in interesting ways. This one shows Guantanamos population, and lists what is happening with each detainee as Guantanamo is phased out.
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