One Mortgage
In: Housing
16 Nov 2010Dan Edstrom (who performs securitization audits for a living) decided to diagram what actually happened to his mortgage as it was securitized. Good luck understanding it. (via Caryn Sykes and Huffington)
Generation Quiz
15 Nov 2010A series of cultural image quizzes leads to a prediction of when you were born. Interesting in theory – but it missed me by about 10 years.
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Quantitative Easing Explained by Cartoons
In: Finance US Economy
15 Nov 2010What does quantitative easing mean? (via Zero Edge and Matt Taibbi)
European Banks’ Sovereign Debt Exposure
15 Nov 2010Pick a country and view the bilateral exposures on the map. You can also drill-down at the bank level.
note: access to some Financial Times features requires a subscription.
How Would You Fix the Budget?
15 Nov 2010The NYT presents you with a number of options for cutting the deficit and displays the cumulative effect in 2015 and 2030. (related article on project methodology)
The Billion Price Index
In: Global Economy
13 Nov 2010A global price index based on the monitoring of prices at online stores in more than 70 countries. You can drill-down by clicking on the map. (via Ritholtz)
What we are Eating
In: Food
13 Nov 2010Average American food consumption. (via The Daily Infographic)
The Internet is for Porn
In: Culture
13 Nov 2010SFW. Some interesting stats about internet porn. For example, the least popular day of the year for porn is Thanksgiving, and Utah leads the nation in online porn subscriptions.
Colors of the Year 2010
13 Nov 2010Based on a survey. I would think a more quantitative analysis of flickr, ads, or google images would have been more indicative.
Contradictions in the Bible
12 Nov 2010This infographic identifies some 439 places where the Bible contradicts itself. From Project-reason.org.
Hip-Hop Explanation of Currency Wars
12 Nov 2010The amount of time someone put into this video is staggering. Oh, and it’s fairly accurate, and absolutely hilarious. “In the future all macroeconomic issues will be explained through hip-hop.” (via)
Income inequality and out of control costs of living. I think this could have used a few more charts – maybe one on static wages?
What New Yorkers Complain About
10 Nov 2010Based on 34,522 complaint calls to 311 over a one week period. (via Flowingdata)
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