Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Lots of Infographics

BibliOdyssey: Nuclear Reactor Cutaways :

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The New York Times had a food article with this infographic, A Century of Meat15food graphic popup 1

I just learned about travel site Hipmunk. They now have some slick maps. "Besides mapping out locations and allowing filtering on prices and amenities, you can also overlap heatmaps for food, tourism, shopping, nightlife, and “vice”. The map below is for Washington DC’s nightlife, and is pretty damn accurate."

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I'm not sure how useful this is, but here's a visualization of Groupon deals. "Each box is a deal. I used height to represent number sold, and width to represent the price. Area is therefore gross revenue, and colour is city for the top 20 cities."

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Paper Leaf created an Elements of Design Quick Reference SheetNewImage

The New York Times asks answers Are State and Local Government Employees Paid Too Much?

Chart Porn (where most of the above were posted) lists examples of The Wonderful Work of Karl Hartig. "Karl Hartig was creating beautiful complex data visualizations back when most of us “graphics experts” were still trying to figure out how to change colors in excel. Here is a selection of his work on population, electronics, energy, stocks, immigration, politics, and music."

The Movie Title Stills Collection (which is evidence that the internet is full) has a collection of Saul Bass Title Sequences.

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