Archive for the 'chart' Category

Using sound to depict the differences between finish times at the Olympics.

Visualized history of the colored alert system of the Department of Homeland Security. Demonstrates that in the history of the color alert system, there has never been a day when the alert has been Green or Blue.

88 piano keys mapped to 88 Ohio counties.

Good color scheme, great URL.

I, for one, was somewhat surprised to learn that subway ridership in NYC peaked in the late 40s.

Population information for industrial robots.

Nice chart from Good Magazine comparing the first 100 days of the last 12 US presidents.

Critique of various ULTIMATE Tuesday infographics. Interestingly doesn't discuss much of the content of the data being presented by different news outlets. eg, NYTimes is very conservative with their delegate count, but CNN is, well, profligate.

How come none of these appear in Tufte's books?

Interestingly, shows that the closer to the present a film is set, the more likely it is to have co-occurring films. Also interesting is where the artist has chosen to place vaguely defined futures. Maybe she knows something we don't?

sort of looks like the best waterslide in the universe.