Hurricane Season 2009
In: Environment/weather Interactive Maps Science Source: WSJ Updated regularly
21 Aug 2009A map of the paths of several hurricanes. Looks like they plan to update it throughout the hurricane season. This is very similar to the AP tool I mentioned in June.
Foreclosure Breakdown
21 Aug 2009Excellent data from the WSJ, via The Big Picture.
Tempo Magic
In: Culture
21 Aug 2009Britain’s top music, graphed against beats per minute.
Calories in Caffeine Delivery Vehicles
In: Culture Food Innovative
21 Aug 2009Fantastic chart from Information is Beautiful. Caffeine on one axis, calories on the other.
Federal Research and Development Dollars
In: Politics US Economy
21 Aug 2009From a Wired blog post about the space program.
US Demographics 1950-2050
In: Employment US Economy
20 Aug 2009Animated graph of the US age distribution. (I think bigger groups would have made it clearer). (thanks to David Cramer for the link)
Variation on the Big Max index
20 Aug 2009How many hours do you need to work to afford a Big Mac?
Fun with NYT Trends
18 Aug 2009Enter any two words into this tool and see a quick comparison graph of mentions in the New York Times. Unfortunately it only goes through 2008 at the moment.
Most Accurate Statistics of the Month
In: Humor Innovative
18 Aug 2009
Religion Maps
18 Aug 2009Where is the real bible belt? What about the Pentacostal belt? (there isn’t one – they’re very spread out) Fascinating maps showing how regional some Christian church’s are. Below are a few breakdowns – there are 20+ on the site. Spotted by Nathan over at FlowingData, originally from Valparaiso University.
Development aid
In: Global Economy Maps
18 Aug 2009Only includes the top 20 recipients and top 5 donors. This is a map that screams for an interactive version with roll over numbers rather than all the lines (and more country coverage)
Geeknews Treemap
In: Culture News Media
18 Aug 2009Much like the news map, the oursignal.com treemap aggregates headlines from Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us and a couple others (should include slashdot, IMO). Spotted over at Information Aesthetics.
Hard Workers
In: Global Economy Maps
18 Aug 2009Hours worked per week around the world. Via DataViz.
European GDP
16 Aug 2009Interactive bar chart of EU country GDP. Unfortunately, they resize the scale on every chart, making it tough to do cross-country comparisons (though they do put the euro-zone average on each chart).
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