Visual History of the American Presidency
13 Jun 2010More beautifully detailed work from Timeplots.
Hockey: Stanley Cup Appearances and Team History
In: Interactive Sports
13 Jun 2010A cool interactive that shows Stanley Cup appearances, as well as when each team was founded and whether they moved/renamed.
A detailed article discussing using alpha values (transparency) instead of standard cartograms. I really really like the cube of thematic map typography. Related paper.
Sparklines in Twitter
9 Jun 2010An excel tool to create unicode sparklines.
World Cup Stadiums
In: Sports
9 Jun 2010I can’t imagine why you might want all this information in one place.. but here it is. (via)
The Greek Tangle
9 Jun 2010Another look at the debt crisis:
A pretty comprehensive report, with some of the ugliest color schemes I’ve seen in a while.
Plotweaver Graphing Software
9 Jun 2010Stanford Student Vadim Ogievetsky is writing some software to allow the automated creation of timeline charts like XKCD’s “Interactions of Move Characters”. I didn’t dig too deep into this, but there’s lots of detail there is you’re interested. (via)
The World: Top to Bottom
In: Maps
9 Jun 2010The below image is just a tiny bit of the Top. the whole annotated graphic is quite LOOONNGGGG. (via Cool Infographics)
Color Strata
9 Jun 2010A beautiful chart of the most popular colors (based on the xkcd survey data).
Emerging Africa: in Depth
In: Emerging Markets Environment/weather Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics Source: FT
9 Jun 2010Several interactive graphics related to the FT’s June 2010 “in depth” analysis of Africa.
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