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Running of the Bulls

13 Jul 2011

Some interesting facts. Almost makes me want to try it.

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We’re Having a Heat Wave…

12 Jul 2011

Most of the US is quite warm today. This map is from NOAA which maintains the Environmental Visualization Laboratory, which is chock full of cool maps and data and worth exploring.

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Dude, Where’s My Job?

In: Employment US Economy

12 Jul 2011

Nice timeline from the WSJ tracing cumulative job losses and gains. The related article does a good job of explaining what’s going on.

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Space Shuttle Histories

In: History Science

7 Jul 2011

An assortment of cool graphics charting the history of the space shuttle. I watched a launch in person back in 1989 – it was awesome.

Bonus: HD video compilation of launches from different angles:

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Car Color Preferences

In: Culture

7 Jul 2011

I’ve never understood why car colors are so boring. Here’s a related article from Road and Track.

More detail on just North America (the #’s vary because they are from different years)

(related Dupont report)

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Evolution of the Map of Africa (1554-1880)

In: History Maps

7 Jul 2011

11 maps showing the evolution of what we thought Africa looked like. Personally, I’m fairly impressed by quickly they had it figured out. By the way, the site where I found this: www.howtobearetronaut.com is fantastic.

For comparison, here is Google’s satellite version, which I suppose is cheating:

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Too Big to Fail

In: Bailout Finance Housing Source: Ritholtz US Economy

30 Jun 2011

A pretty comprehensive explanation of the financial crisis. (via The Big Picture)

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Map: Geographic Income

In: Global Economy Innovative Maps

28 Jun 2011

National Geographic mashed together income-level and population distribution to make this beautiful map.

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Dwindling Food Variety

In: Environment/weather Food Science

28 Jun 2011

a study conducted in 1983 by the Rural Advancement Foundation International … compared USDA listings of seed varieties sold by commercial U.S. seed houses in 1903 with those in the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory in 1983. The survey, which included 66 crops, found that about 93 percent of the varieties had gone extinct.

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Overworked America

In: Employment

28 Jun 2011

Mother Jones has a series of graphs detailing how bad the American job market is:

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Evolution of Alphabets

In: History Innovative

27 Jun 2011

Animated evolution of the Latin character set from Phonecian. Other timelines are available.

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God and Other Internet Searches

In: Culture Internet/tech

27 Jun 2011

Believe it or not, when I title my posts, I do occasionally try to show mercy to my readers who are already skittish about browsing “chartporn.org” from work. This is one of those times. You’re welcome.

I like that they normalized the results to account for volume.

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Mortgage Denial Rates

In: Housing Interactive Maps

27 Jun 2011

Percent of mortgage applications that were denied in 2010. “In all, the nation’s 10 largest mortgage lenders denied 26.8% of loan applications in 2010, an increase from 23.5% in 2009.”

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Slayer Dashboard

In: Culture

24 Jun 2011

You have to love any graph that has “in percent of evil” as an axis – part of an amusing dashboard analyzing how “evil” Slayer albums and songs are, based on how often the lyrics reference blood, death, evil, heil, kill, satan, and war.