Popular Boys and Girls Names (1880-2008)
23 Mar 2010
March Madness Team Comparison
In: Interactive Sports
23 Mar 2010Defensive verses offensive field goals, with colored seeding and whether they’re still in the tournament.
Public Transport Fail
In: Culture Innovative
22 Mar 2010I really like the design. What would be fabulous is if people could use existing online tools for transport schedules, but annotate them with their real experience. (via)
Worst Places in the World to be a Kid
22 Mar 2010Only counts child mortality. (via)
Economic Indicators Dashboard (Mar 2010 ver)
22 Mar 2010One of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. Click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.
Simple data, with a quality discussion at Jon Peltier’s blog of the different ways to visualize it (based on this inspiration).
Best Cities for Working Mothers
22 Mar 2010Eleven indicator rankings, based on Forbes research.
Average Driving Speeds
22 Mar 2010Based on data collected (voluntarily) by TomTom. Related WSJ article.
The original data from Tela Atlas also has some interesting maps:
Risk Interconnection Map
In: Graphic Design (general) Innovative Interactive Maps Politics
21 Mar 2010From the World Economic Forum, based on this year’s Global Risk report. Thanks to Sean R. for passing it on!
Hurricane Watch
20 Mar 2010
Tracking a Toxic Mortgage Security
19 Mar 2010A fantastic look at what owning one of these assets looks like. NPR’s Planet Money bought a $1000 mortgage bond and is tracking it’s performance. You can view how many payments they’ve received versus how many properties in their portion of the bond have been sold at a loss. Related article. (via Vizworld)
There’s also a cute simple explanation video:
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