Israel/Palestine Conflict
8 Jan 2010Number of deaths on both sides, and number of rockets/mortars fired into Israel.
2010: A Formal Display of the Obvious
7 Jan 2010An entertaining compendium of visualizations about the upcoming year, created for Chronogram Magazine. The magazine write-up included a wonderful self-denigrating statement from designer Jason Cring: “Cring believes infographic purists like information design guru Edward Tufte would be appalled. ‘Tufte’s very opinionated about the right and wrong ways to present information. He would not approve of any of this, I’m quite sure.'”
Overlapping Management
7 Jan 2010The overlapping memberships of 15 Fortune 500 board members. (From 2008) The site allows construction of all kinds of people-maps (bands, funerals, etc).
Stocks
7 Jan 20102008 and 2009 by sector, and compared to 2007 peaks.
Climate Wizard
6 Jan 2010Take a look at temperature changes over the past 50 years, then select from several different models to simulate changes for the next 100. Produced by the Nature Conservancy, University of Washington, and University of Southern Mississippi, the amount of detail and explanation is welcome versus some of the more popular projection maps out there. (via)
100 Years of Consumer Spending
In: Culture Food US Economy
6 Jan 2010I really don’t like area charts much. They should at least show the beginning and ending percentages for each section. I’m a little surprised food has declined so much.
The Economist Big Mac Index
6 Jan 2010THE Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP)-exchange rates should equalise the price of a basket of goods in different countries. The exchange rate that leaves a Big Mac costing the same in dollars everywhere is our fair-value benchmark. So our light-hearted index shows which countries the foreign-exchange market has blessed with a cheap currency, and which has it burdened with a dear one.
Global Housing Prices
5 Jan 2010Interactive Chart. Select your indicator, countries, and time period.
Jobs Forecast
5 Jan 2010Forecast by region, sector, or metro area. Updated 12/22/09.
Is College Worth the Money?
In: Culture US Economy
5 Jan 2010Some interesting facts about college.
Expiring Patents
5 Jan 2010A RECORD number of drug patents will expire over the next few years, which should heighten competition from generic drugs and force down prices. In 2009, $26 billion of sales were at risk from patent expiries. This will nearly double in 2011 according to EvaluatePharma, a consultancy. The price of any given drug falls by more than 85% within a year of a patent expiring in markets like America. About 13% of global drug sales are at risk from generic competition over the next two years.
China vs Japan
5 Jan 2010NEXT year China will overtake Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. Its rapid ascent has led some to question whether China will follow in Japan’s footsteps, with the bursting of a massive bubble followed by years of decline. But China is still far poorer than Japan was at its peak, and thus has more room to improve productivity.
Visual Dictionary
4 Jan 2010Visuwords: An interactive visual representation of the relationships between words. (via The Big Picture)
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