Language Families
17 Feb 2015A beautiful language tree by sssscomic.com.
Most Expensive US City to Live in
In: Housing
17 Feb 2015DC is number 1!!!!! WOOHOOO!!!
Overlapping Photos of World Leaders
17 Feb 2015I’m not sure what value these have. Tere must me tons of layering and resizing assumptions behind the result. Mostly they are just creepy.
USA presidents from 1789 to 1889: 
1960-2008:
Soviet Union 1917-1991: 
Washington Wizards Shooting Viz
17 Feb 2015Some beautiful visualizations of where each player shoots from, and is more successful (this is last year’s season, though)
Anatomy of Songs
In: Humor
17 Feb 2015Depressingly true. I watched the grammy’s recently and it was a long slow reminder of why I hate popular music of almost any genre.
Distant Relations
17 Feb 2015I always get confused by this shit. I grew up with my dads cousins kids and can never remember how to reference their relationship.
Flowingdata also has a version:
Interactive 2015 State of the Union Address
In: Interactive Politics
17 Feb 2015Pretty wonky, but it’s a nice breakdown of content analysis.
Average Income by DC Metro Stop
17 Feb 2015An interested analysis, but not too surprising if you are already aware of DC income distributions. (via WashingtonPost blog article)
Economic Booms and Busts (1775-1943)
12 Jan 2015I first posted about this awesome graph back in 2010, but it is now available from HistoryShots as print. Besides all the rare economic info, what’s fascinating to me is that this was orginally created as a piece of wall advertising. The most commonly circulated version had it as an ad for an envelope company, though I’ve seen others.
Powerpoint Presentation of Doom!
12 Jan 2015Artist Julian Oliver recreated the horrible powerpoint templates used in Edward Snowden’s leaked NSA powerpoint presentations. Awesome.
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