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Fastest Things in/on Water

10 Sep 2009

Not sure this deserved so much color and design. but it’s aesthetically pleasing.

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Live Storm Tracker

In: Environment/weather Interactive Maps Updated regularly

10 Sep 2009

Kind of fun, with good roll-overs and animation; only shows current storms and projections. Click on the little hurricane icons around the sides of the map to shift to other storms.

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Best Movies of All Time

In: Culture Innovative Maps

10 Sep 2009

A clever metro-style map of the top 250 movies of all time (as voted by IMDB users), organized by movie type. Spotted at Dataviz.

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Global Diseases

In: Global Economy Interactive Maps Science Updated regularly

10 Sep 2009

A map of the “current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health.” Filter by country, type of disease, etc. Spotted at Cool Infographics.

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Income Equalizing?

In: Employment Source: WSJ US Economy

10 Sep 2009

Four charts on income inequality in the United States. The related article argues that the recession may be lowering the gap by clobbering the wealthy.

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Nuclear is Making a Comeback

In: Interactive Maps Science Source: FT

10 Sep 2009

Maps of operational reactors, those under construction, planned, and as a percent of total electricity:

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Asia Economic Weather Forecast (Aug. 09 version)

In: Global Economy Maps Source: FT Updated regularly

10 Sep 2009

Looking better.

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Bubble, Bubble, Investment Troubles

In: Global Economy Reference Source: Ritholtz

10 Sep 2009

From Ritholtz. more of a timeline quiz than a chart.

1. Tulip Mania
2. South Sea /Mississippi Company Bubbles
3. Railway Mania
4. Florida Speculative Building Mania
5. Roaring 1920s/1929
6. Poseidon Bubble
7. Gold
8. Japanese Asset Bubble
9. Dot Com/Tech/Telecoms
10. Global Real Estate/Credit Bubble
11. China/Shanghai Index Stock Bubble
12. Commodity Bubble
13. Oil Bubble
14. Leverage/Derivative/Financial Bubble

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Potus Maximus

In: Interactive Politics Source: Washington Post Updated regularly

10 Sep 2009

A treemap of how Obama has spent his time in office, by topic (apparently based on his official schedule). Updated daily by the Washington Post.

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Helicopter Crashes

In: Interactive Maps News Media Science Source: Washington Post

21 Aug 2009

From a Washington Post article on fatal helicopter accidents. What first looked like just one kind of interesting chart turned out to be three solid ones once you started clicking around. (Thanks to Jane An for pointing them out).

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Helping People is Dangerous

In: Culture Global Economy

21 Aug 2009

August 19th was World Humanitarian Day. The PDF file below charts the number of humanitarian workers who have been killed, kidnapped, and injured trying to help their fellow man. Thanks to Nancy Meaker for sending the link.

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Computers Good. Oil Bad.

In: Source: Economist US Economy

21 Aug 2009

American attitudes towards different industries.

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European Economic Weather Map (updated Aug 09)

In: Emerging Markets Global Economy Innovative Interactive Maps Source: FT Updated regularly

21 Aug 2009

I’ve been tempted to steal this design many times. it’s a nice way to present mostly qualitative information for a large number of countries – and people understand it intuitively.

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Housing: The United States vs Vermont

In: Housing Interactive Maps Source: WSJ

21 Aug 2009

Compare some interesting housing variables (foreclosure rate, home price %change, personal income %change, and GDP). The related article talks about Vermont missing the boom and the bust.