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3 Aug 2009
Health Care Chart-Off
In: US Economy
3 Aug 2009The Health Care graphic design fight continues. Today, the rebuttle by a concerned graphic designer citizen:
Also, as noted in the Post, the Republican plan:
and another one about the current system:
Global Recession Map
In: Global Economy Maps Source: Economist Updated regularly US Economy
3 Aug 2009From the Economist:
Which is just a recycled version of Moody’s regularly updated map (that includes pop-up drill downs):
Updated July 29th. The best part is the lower chart showing the latest data for each of the 11 “leading indicators”.
Music Sales?
In: Culture Source: NYT
3 Aug 2009This chart doesn’t quite look right to me. But it’s from the RIAA, so no surprise there. They try to make it look like it’s volume, but it’s not.
Financial Regulation
3 Aug 2009The FT has some nice charts on proposed changes to financial oversight. Related article.
Bank Bonuses
3 Aug 2009Lots of talk last week about Wall Street still paying huge bonuses. Related article.
An American Day
3 Aug 2009
Related article. Via Ritholtz (again. read The Big Picture!)
Housing Volume by Size
3 Aug 2009
Foreclosures and Modifications
In: Housing US Economy
29 Jul 2009Not good. Is unemployment still a lagging indicator when housing and credit are at the center of a recession?
Smoking Stats: World and US
29 Jul 2009Good use of a spiral chart (though a normal bar would have been just as good, I guess).
Architecture
In: Culture Innovative Maps Science
29 Jul 2009This was labeled “Infographic of Global Change” on Flickr. It’s a historical map of architecture.
Musical Themes
In: Culture Innovative
29 Jul 2009Based on the Guardian’s list of 1000 songs to hear before you die.
Blog post of designer Sean Carmody.
a box plot of the same data:
Seafood Heatmap?
29 Jul 2009What seafoods are safe to eat? Being overfished? Good magazine has a guide. (roughly: blue=good, yellow=maybe, black=bad; see the article for details). More interesting, perhaps, is the Seafood Watch iphone app which was mentioned in the comments.
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