More Drought
In: Environment/weather Graphic Design (bad) Interactive Maps
30 Jul 2012Four maps (one of them with interactive annotations), a bar chart, and a related article – and none of them explain how “drought” is defined. What is the difference between severe, extreme, and exceptional drought? They all sound terrible.
In search of context, I went to the Drought Monitor site, where I found more cool looking maps and animated gifs…
… and finally a “what is drought” section, and a link to a comparison of major drought indices and indicators (none of which explained how the categories used by the drought monitor are defined), and a link back to monitor site. At which point I gave up.
Drought (1896-2012)
In: Food History Maps US Economy
24 Jul 2012A look at drought through the years. There’s also a nice article about the design decisions and process that went into it.
Evolution of the Web
23 Jul 2012A beautifully executed timeline of the history of the web. But really, why does anyone care when different kinds of html were included in each browser? Does anyone actually find this kind of internet navel gazing to be interesting?
How Old is Your Government?
23 Jul 2012I thought the comparison with age of population was a smart addition.
Political Leanings of Social Media
In: Internet/tech
20 Jul 2012I tend to avoid internet meta infographics, as it is a tad navel gazing for me, and I’m dubious of the metric used here (facebook likes as tracked by the “Trendsetter” platform. But heck, it’s Friday afternoon. Have at it.
Olympic Games
In: Interactive Sports
20 Jul 2012The Guardian has created explanatory infographics for just about every game. Some are better than others. They also have interactive guides to many of the sports. I imagine we’ll see lots of these in the coming weeks.
For example, for beach volleyball. They should have explained the scorekeeping like they did for normal volleyball.
Interactive guides:
Poverty and Policy
In: Culture Employment History
18 Jul 2012Some slick programming in this annotated exploration of 50 years of poverty statistics. Tough I’m not a fan of the pie charts, per se, the rollover drill down is a nice idea. Be sure to click on the small “change year” to bring up a timeline slider that updates in real time. Like I said – slick!
Infographics Explained with Legos
17 Jul 2012Nice work by Karyn Rossen. Though I think I would have taken this further. Maybe adding labels and saying “explained”, then an animated lego plane saying “too far”.
Truck Timeline
17 Jul 2012Ok, confession time. I’m not posting this because it’s a great infographic or timeline. I’m posting it because I love vintage trucks. Particularly those in the 50s and 60s.
Commute Times
In: Housing Interactive Maps
9 Jul 2012Trulia now maps commute times in cities around the country.
One of the reasons I love DC: You can get just about anywhere in less than 30 minutes
Are You Too Old for the Olympics?
3 Jul 2012Age ranges for each sport for the past three summer games.
(note: I couldn’t get the age filter at the top to work in either firefox or IE)
The medals are mostly won by the young, however:
11 Reasons Your Infographic Isn’t an Infographic
28 Jun 2012Ian Lurie provides an entertaining list of reasons why crap link-bait infographics aren’t really infographics at all.
Obama vs Romney – Decide Who Wins!
27 Jun 2012Click on each state in the map with your predictions, and the running total at the bottom will tell you who wins! You can also cycle through the results of elections 1789-2008, which is entertaining if you read the little election facts at the bottom of each map.
Personally, it kind of reminded me of playing Risk on the computer back in college.
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