The Economist’s house-price indicators goes interactive.
“Article skimmer” at nytimes.com.
The Economist has just launched a global public debt clock.
The billion dollar gram.
GOOD and Graham Roberts show “some of history’s greatest journeys” in this intelligent and fun (and quite simple) interactive map.
Ikea font change kerfuffle.
Do not fuck with graphic designers (via robertpalmer)
via strangemaps
Parallel Sets is free downloadable application for visualizing data in a nice way. It’s from eagereyes.
“In this example, the top line shows the distribution between the passenger classes on the Titanic and the crew. Notice that the crew was the largest group of people, larger even than the Third Class! Within the passengers, the Third Class is of course the largest, with the First Class being second, and the Second Class the smallest.
The middle dimension shows a male to female ratio of almost 4 to 1. The bottom dimension, survival, gives you an impression of how many people survived the disaster: about 1/3 survived, 2/3 died.”
Christoph Niemann
This is a NYT graphic from 2006, but there is talk of China’s Spring Airlines selling ‘standing room only’ fares. What’s next?
Craig Robinson at flipflopflying has assembled all of his baseball graphics on one page!
We previously featured a sample here
