Source: FT Archive:
Apple vs Google vs Microsoft
12 Jul 2010Numbers and products – keep clicking, the drill-down goes down quite far.
Sovereign Debt Levels 1980-2009
1 Jul 2010Charts and data for 12 OECD countries.
World Wine
21 Jun 2010A collection of interactives from the FT:
Drill down maps of each region:
Grape varieties, and production stats:
Emerging Africa: in Depth
In: Emerging Markets Environment/weather Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics Source: FT
9 Jun 2010Several interactive graphics related to the FT’s June 2010 “in depth” analysis of Africa.
Development (1980-2008): 
Government: 
Natural Resources: 
The Trail of Debt
9 Jun 2010
Updated: European Economic Weather Map
In: Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: FT Updated regularly
7 Jun 2010
Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery (TIGER)
In: Finance Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: FT Updated regularly
26 May 2010Joint effort of the Brookings Institute and the Financial Times. Click on a country to open a PDF with detailed information. Or, you can look at the summary for all countries. Related Brookings post.
Car Company Alliances
5 May 2010Mouse over any company to see the overlaps and connections. Related articles.
Deficit Busters
4 May 2010Select 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?
UK Party Lines
15 Apr 2010Interactive guide to the views of the Labour, Conservative, and Liberal Democrat parties on various issues.
G20 Interest Rates
6 Apr 2010
Global Mergers and Acquisitions (2000-09)
18 Mar 2010A particularly useless pie chart, but the map and table are interesting to use with the timeline slider.
Declining Stock Trade Size (99-09)
8 Mar 2010The average size of stock trades has been shrinking in the medium term.
note: if you have trouble seeing the FT grapic try a google search for the article name “Average trade size on top world stock exchanges” and click on the link there.
Banking Earnings vs Compensation
19 Feb 2010“Drag the slider to see how staff compensation at these major banks relates to revenue and net income over time and see which bank pays their employees the most on average.”
Obama’s Bank Reform Plan
In: Bailout Finance Politics Source: FT Stock Market US Economy
9 Feb 2010The FT has an audio annotated slideshow explaining the proposal.
(note, to get around FT’s registration try this link)
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