Archive for February, 2009
US stimulus package - dollar by dollar
We only just spotted this lovely Washington Post visualisation breaking down the $819 billion US stimulus package. We particularly like the way, having done breakdowns per category of spending with proportionately sized bubbles, they then drill down further, and do a stack graph showing expenditure over time. Impressive stuff.
Smart kids listen to Sufjan
Lovely piece of data manipulation by Virgil Griffith - he of Books that make you dumb fame - who’s mashed up ‘favourite music’ data from Facebook profiles with average SAT score data from schools. Kids who like Indie appear to be quite bright. (There’s a nice ‘cleverness by music genre’ page here.) Beethoven-lovers are by [...]
Britain’s biggest shopping centres
Shopping centres are a little like skyscrapers: their developers like them to be just that bit bigger than the last one. The image above shows the proportionate size of Britain’s largest shopping centres, with the proposed new Westfield on the site of the London Olympic Park - with retail floor space of 171,000sq m - [...]
How far the world walks in 10 seconds
Lest you doubted that Londoners live life at a faster clip than the rest of the country - or that New Yorkers are generally in one hell of a rush - here’s proof. Above is a chart showing the distance the average resident in each capital city walks in ten seconds.
The data has been translated [...]
Film genres across the past 100 years
All of Hollywood’s output - in a single page.
The above graph - made using imdb.com data - shows the breakdown of films by genre over the past 100 years. The deep pink and beige bands show the staples of drama and comedy. In blue you see shorts, which were once predominant (D.W. Griffith’s The Birth [...]
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