Clothing: Looks vs Comfort
25 Aug 2011Fairly stupid chart, but I love the design idea and implementation.
Fed Crisis Lending to Wall Street
23 Aug 2011Bloomberg compiled some stunning new data on Fed loans to Wall Street banks during the crisis based across multiple programs (Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, Commercial Paper Funding Facility, discount window, PDCF, TAF, Term Securities Lending Facility and single-tranche open market operations). (related article; via The Big Picture)
I wish I could borrow from the Fed at <2% using junk bonds as collateral.
You get the below charts by selecting multiple banks to compare them:
Republican Candidates Venn Diagram
In: Politics Source: NYT
23 Aug 2011Based on their viability prospects:
Thanks to David Cramer for passing it on!
Housing: Rent vs Buy
In: Housing Innovative Source: Ritholtz Source: WSJ US Economy
17 Aug 2011Barry Ritholtz has another great post about the housing market over at The Big Picture. In addition to his analytical insights, he pointed out two great tools for looking at housing markets across the country.
The first is a Rent vs Buy interactive from Trulia:
(related Trulia article and methodology)
Second is the Wall Street Journal’s chart of price-to-income ratios (compared to the 1985-00 average).
How We Spend our Time
In: Culture Source: WSJ
17 Aug 2011Results from the 2010 American Time Use Survey. These look odd to me – and there are two possible reasons for this:
#1: Everyone lies on surveys (ie – they know they SHOULD be getting 8 hours of sleep, so that’s what they report).
#2: I do not have the lifestyle of an average American.
(via)
US Energy Production
In: Interactive Science
16 Aug 2011“More than half of the energy produced in the U.S. isn’t put to use.” A lovely interactive sankey diagram of energy production and waste. As you rollover the diagram it highlights different flows. (via)
Paying Off Credit Card Debt
15 Aug 2011Catherine Mulbrandon visualizes how long it takes to pay off a new computer making the minimum payment versus $100/month.
Crayon Rainbow
15 Aug 2011Stephen von Worley re-designed Velociraptor’s Crayola Crayon color chart into a rainbow:
The radials make it much easier to see the most recent colors than in the original version:
He also tried several other shapes (below), and an interactive version. (via)
Lifespan Calculator
In: Science
12 Aug 2011Answer a series of questions about your health and lifestyle choices and see how long you’ve got to live.
There’s also a slightly more entertaining version called the Longevity Game:
Scientific Process Flowchart
10 Aug 2011Scientists: how accurate is this?
Post Offices 1700-1900
In: History Interactive Maps
10 Aug 2011Derek Watkins created this beautiful animated map proxying the expansion of “civilization” across the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. I particularly like the running timeline at the bottom.
Should You Argue on the Internet?
In: Humor Internet/tech
5 Aug 2011An excellent flowchart.
From the same artist: “So you found something cool on the internet”:
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