Legal Voting Age
23 Nov 2009I hadn’t realized how uniform this was around the world. Thanks to Jack for pointing it out.
Plots vs attacks, and average age of terrorists.
Colorful Rankings
23 Nov 2009I’m just posting this because I know eventually I will use the design for a silly powerpoint or diagram.
Cost of Getting Sick
23 Nov 2009GE has put together an interactive toy for looking at how expensive different illnesses are at different ages. Use the slider at the bottom to pick the age. “Wedges are colored by chronic condition and wedge size (angle), represents the percentage of patients with the condition. Wedge length from center to edge is cost. The lightly colored portions are personal cost and the darkly colored are insurer cost.” (via FlowingData) Robert Kosara has a detailed critique of the chart over at eagereyes.
Junk Food Decision Tree
23 Nov 2009A reasonably accurate mapping of choices. Thanks to Sandy for pointing it out to me. and I just noticed there’s one on the same site for cereal.
Economic Recovery Dashboard (Nov 09 ver)
In: Employment Finance Global Economy Housing Interactive US Economy
23 Nov 2009November update of one of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. If you normally find this stuff confusing you should check it out – click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.
Relationship Venn
20 Nov 2009Because its Friday. something a little more entertaining – and it’s actually a nice combination of venn and axis chart styles.
Corruption 2009
20 Nov 2009Interactive map of Transparency International’s 2009 “Corruption Perception Index”. (via)
Ethics vs Salary
20 Nov 2009summary: ethics doesn’t pay well. actually, according to this, nothing pays very well. More data is probably needed.
Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad
20 Nov 2009Too funny. (via Jon Peltier’s Periodic Table of What?)
The Average Flag
In: Innovative Maps
19 Nov 2009Bonus points for trying something new: flags of the world with their colors weighted by population. (via)
Emotional Investing
19 Nov 2009The second one from Vanguard lets you adjust when you leave and enter the market (based on market crashes/recoveries). Very cool.
Interactive Investing
18 Nov 2009Vanguard has several interesting interactive tools for visualizing investment decisions. The first concerns investment composition. Use the sliders at the bottom to choose between stocks, bonds, and cash – and to show how your investments would have performed over any date range since 1928. Click on the little graph icons in the upper right corner to view it as data or a line chart. Thanks to Diane Fitzer for pointing them out.
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