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A New Chart for Financial Indicators
The financial numbers generated by the U.S. and worldwide economic crisis have informed many charts and graphs but most are rudimentary. I have hoped to pull some into this blog, but haven’t seen any...
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The Key to the Masthead
It may not work for every web site, but it does for Flip Flop Fly Ball. I’m talking about a site masthead with more iconography than a pre-renaissance painting. The key to the masthead is a nice...
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How a Bill Becomes a Column
There are a lot of bills in Congress. IBM Research Labs has created a new way to find them. IBM Many Bills is a search engine that presents U.S. Congressional legislation in strongly visual format....
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A Taxonomy of Pasta
Leave it to an architect to diagram the pasta family tree. George L. Legendre has profiled 92 different kinds of pasta in his new book, Pasta by Design, classifying them into types using ‘phylogeny’...
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A Thousand Thousand Thousand Thousand Thousand
I’m not really sure what to make of Randall Munroe’s chart on Money. There’s an enormous amount of data that is almost impossible to read. It needs to be printed whiteboard-sized. Like Munroe’s...
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Earthquake Watch
Earthquakes, too, are measured by a non-linear scale. Here, the increasing energy of powerful quakes is shown as an animation (the color coding refers to tsunami potential, based on NOAA’s data and...
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World Map Abstracted
Based on data gathered from Gallup’s World Poll survey the Charities Aid Foundation creates a World Giving Index. The map below shows countries weighted by rank: What I find most interesting about this...
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The Infographic Dump
I’ve been meaning to write about a spate of bad infographics I’ve been seeing recently in blog posts and social media feeds, but Megan McArdle beat me to it: If you look at these lovely, lying...
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The Scientists Sketch
Data visualization consultant Lee De Cola has assembled a neat cross section of sketches by famous scientists. Here, for example, is a literal back-of-the-envelope sketch by Henri Poincaré: Sadly, many...
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