Gay Population Distribution
1 Dec 2009Washington DC is the highest, with 14 per 1,000 of population. I can’t help but wonder if these numbers are inherently not accurate (self-reporting, etc)
Cruise Ship Sizes
1 Dec 2009At 225,000 gross tonnes, Oasis of the Seas, one of two identical ships recently built for Royal Caribbean cruises, is 70,000 tonnes more and 21 metres longer than the previous record holder, Freedom of the Seas. By contrast, the Titanic, built by White Star Line nearly a century ago and at the time the largest steam ship ever, measured 269 metres and was less than a fifth of the size of today’s behemoths.
WSJ Shopping Guide
In: Culture Source: WSJ
1 Dec 2009A novel interactive shopping guide. Roll over items for names, sort using the options at the top. I don’t think I’ll do much shopping using this (the pictures are too small and having to roll over them to see what they are takes too long) – but it’s somewhat aesthetically pleasing.
Oil and Gas Executive Pay
1 Dec 2009A fairly detailed analysis of pay vs performance. You can pick from 10 indicators of compensation and 8 indicators of corporate performance. Click on any bubble to popup details of that company and executive. Related article.
Emerging Market Economies
1 Dec 2009From the FT: Simple popups with summary economic statistics for each country. Not a very interesting or useful visualization (nothing visual; can’t easily compare countries)
Evolution of Storage
In: Science
1 Dec 2009I might have preferred a uniform visual measure of size, but the information is interesting. Thanks to Mark and Chicho for pointing it out.
Aids Research
1 Dec 2009Interactive map of the activities of the amfAR organization in 2008.
Income Distribution
In: Global Economy Maps
29 Nov 2009Also, one of the clearest descriptions of the Gini Coefficient that I’ve read.
Ebay Black Friday
29 Nov 2009Animated map of the 1+ million transactions that happened on ebay. (via)
Gobble Gobble
In: Culture
25 Nov 2009
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