The Rising Cost of Death
In: Culture
5 Feb 2010How much a standard funeral costs today. Also shows cremation rates by state – but doesn’t say how much cremation costs – probably because this was created by a life insurance org. (via)
Art and Culture Timelines
In: Culture Innovative
5 Feb 2010Some beautiful and fascinating hand drawn/painted timelines from artist Ward Shelley on a wide variety of topics. Interesting write-up on motivation and methods from the artist. (via)
The evolution of the Avant Garde art scene: 
Frank Zappa: 
Rock genres: 
Andy Warhol’s world: 
Data Fiction
5 Feb 2010Something a little different today: A fictional story told through data visualizations. The link below goes to the flickr version, while a larger presentation appears on designer Kim Asendorf’s website. I definitely love the idea and the execution — of course, visualizations are probably a little easier to create when you get to make up the data. 🙂
Faulty Employment Statistics
In: Employment US Economy
4 Feb 2010Poor assumptions in the how the BLS calculates unemployment will lead to a downward adjustment of 824,000 on Friday – read the technical explanation. (via The Big Picture).
Inflated Worth
2 Feb 2010A little silly, but the size of the CEOs head shows his pay vs the average worker 1970-2005.
Heavy Medal
2 Feb 2010Interactive bar chart of Olympic medals divided by GDP. Rollover for details. (via VizWorld)
One more. This time with feeling! Ok, maybe not. But this one has some great historical perspectives: Deficits, spending by agency, revenue, etc (and you can click on the area charts to drill down). Great work by the Washington Post!
Deficits (all the charts below go to the same link – click on the tabs at the top to go through them on the WP site).
Spending by agency:
Revenue:
The budget:
More Obama Budget
1 Feb 2010Interactive treemap from the NYT – you can zoom/drill into the details, “hide” mandatory spending, and rollovers popup the 2010-11 values and change. Thanks to Andrea Noble for the heads up!
Obama 2011 Budget
1 Feb 2010Some charts summarizing the budget proposal.
What Color are Words?
1 Feb 2010Cymbolism.com creates graphs based on surveys of what colors people associate with different words. The blog has a lot of interesting articles about color theory, cultural differences, etc. (via)
Obama’s Budget
In: Politics US Economy
1 Feb 20102011 vs 2009 (George Bush’s last one). They also have the dataset of spending by department since 1962.
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