The 5 Stages of Everyday Griefs
In: Humor
14 Sep 2009A little irreverent, so is pretty much everything else over at MADATOMS.
Effective Tax Rates
14 Sep 2009Can you tell I’m catching up on Economist charts? Well, suffer – because they’re pretty good, despite the overuse of distracting background graphics.
Is College Worth the Cost?
14 Sep 2009Comparison of lifetime earnings of college graduates vs non. I think this is the originating OECD report for the data. Reminds me of the articles on whether MBAs are worth the cost. And for the record: a giant smiley face should never ever be the visual focal point of an infographic.
Doing Business Around the World
14 Sep 2009The World Bank’s Doing Business survey analysis has come under some criticism recently, but still provides a good broad cross-country indicator of business related practices.
Smashing Success!
13 Sep 2009
Smashing Magazine has included ChartPorn in their list of 25 Data Visualization and Infographics Resources. Besides checking out the list, I’d recommend looking over Smashing Magazine’s entire website. They really maintain a treasure trove of graphic design resources over there (in fact, IIRC I found Chartporn’s original WordPress theme over there).
In related news, Chartporn is now up over 1000 RSS subscribers. Not much by blog standards, I suppose, but it makes me happy to know people are enjoying this collection.
GDP Dots
13 Sep 2009A novel way of presenting GDP (and I’ve seen a lot of them). It’s a sorted time-line-chart with scaling. Nicely done. Spotted over at Visualizing Economics. Originally by Joe Swainson.
Winners and Losers
13 Sep 2009Animation of Wall Street’s Market cap from October 07 through today.
Homeland Insecurity
In: Humor Interactive Politics
13 Sep 2009An interactive timeline of the US terror alert level. I was just flying last week and wondering how long we had been on Orange (high) with nothing happening. Spotted at Information Aethestics.
and because it seems relevant, a favorite from Wondermark:
Ten Dimensions?
In: Science
13 Sep 2009Something a little different: a visualization of the 10 dimensions currently postulated by physics:
Rising Health Insurance Costs
In: Interactive Maps Politics
13 Sep 2009Roll over a state to compare costs in 1996 to 2006. Colors show number of uninsured workers (should have shown percentages).
Solar, Wind, and Bodies
11 Sep 2009These have been making the rounds. (I like the revised version at the bottom which does the same comparison with matrix-style human batteries)
MSNBC Spectra Visual Newsreader
11 Sep 2009Yet another news aggregator visualization. But this one spins and is in color!! Ok, perhaps that’s a little snarky — there is some clever design here, but I question how useful it is – maybe if it was on a wall sized touchscreen or something.
Guantanamo Tracker
10 Sep 2009AP seems very into tracking things lately. thankfully they are doing it in interesting ways. This one shows Guantanamos population, and lists what is happening with each detainee as Guantanamo is phased out.
Wildfires
10 Sep 2009Along the lines of the interactive hurricane trackers, but if you click around you also find information on historical trends, how wildfires grow, and even some basic fire ecology info and an explanation of why prescribed fires are a good idea.
News Dots
10 Sep 2009Recent news items illustrated as a giant interactive network map. “Subjects-represented by the circles below-are connected to one another if they appear together in at least two stories, and the size of the dot is proportional to the total number of times the subject is mentioned.” The nice part is you can drill down to the actual news articles on the right. Updated daily by Slate.
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