FTSE 100 – A 26 Year History
Jeremy Christopher explains the history, worth, and importance of the FTSE 100 on a basic level in order to build a simple knowledge base of the index. Read more
Google Public Data Explorer
On its trail to organize the world’s information, Google has just added a new experimental product to their Lab. The Public Data Explorer makes “large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate”. It is designed to help people comprehend data and statistics through rich visualizations. Read more
Smart Animation for IBM Smarter Planet
With graphical cleverness resembling the early posters by Paul Rand, IBM has produced a series of short animated infographics explaining the ideas behind their Smarter Planet initiative. The distinct look and the simplicity make the microsite a joyful visit. Read more
Most Important Risks 2010? WEF Knows It.
The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland will take place this weekend from January 27th to 31st. To examine some of the most important topics in advance the WEF website hosts the interactive application Risks Interconnection Map 2010. The RIM 2010 is a network visualization weighting the most important global risks and their connections. Read more
Analysing Jobless Rate with Moving Graph and Adapting Grid
The Interactives Team from the New York Times did it again: Shan carter, Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy created an interactive infographic analysing the unemployment rate in the USA over the past 33 months. Read more
Interactive Table about Jobs Outlook
A new interactive application from the Wall Street Journal provides an historical view into the national unemployment rate since 1948. Provided with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics the application does a nice job in immediate insight. Read more
Human Development Report 2009
Since 1990 the United Nations Development Programme publishes an annual report called the Human Development Report exploring challenges including poverty, gender, democracy, human rights, cultural liberty, globalization, water scarcity and climate change. This year’s topic is migration and the UNDP has recruited the New York based design studio Zago which originated from Basel, Switzerland to lead the design. Read more
Socrata – A Social Network For Data
Please welcome new player in the open data game: Socrata – a social network for data. Socrata provides a platform to publish open datasets, let's users view, download, share, comment or rate the datasets and opens up a space to connect with fellow data enthusiasts. Read more
US Government data on Data.gov
Data.gov aims to provide public access to the high quality datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The datasets are available in various formats from feeds to XML or TXT files. A solid search engine makes the datasets searchable and filterable based on keywords, categories formats or agencies. Read more
The influence of the recession on our beloved charts
Jorge Camoes has written a fantastic follow up post called “Sub-Prime Charts: Should Data Visualization Be Boring?” to an article from Paul Krugman for the New York Times. Krugman discusses the influence of fancy financing on business decisions and how those had to change after the great depression. Camoes goes on and translates those ideas [...] Read more
Visualizing Corporate America
The Freebase blog posted a visualization of data about the network of american companies. This example displays the connection between companies based on shared board members. Read more
Visualizing Obama’s economic stimulus plan
Nathan over at FlowingData covers two visualizations of the economic stimulus plan by the Obama administration. CreditLoan's approach seems more intuitive while the version of the Washington Post goes deeper and visualizes the timeline of the spendings. Read more
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