The Economist has a nice story about how the cost of sequencing DNA (specifically of the DNA of homo sapiens) is decreasing at a rather rapid rate. They include a chart (which naturally has lots of blue in it). The only problem with this chart is that it doesn’t really tell us much other than [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Information Design'
Sweet sports visualization: what it’s like to face Mariano Rivera
July 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Information Design
Mariano Rivera of the NY Yankees has one pitch, but it’s an awesome pitch. The NYTimes does a sweet job of explaining its nastiness. ~alex
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Beware of chart bergs
July 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Book Reviews, Information Design
Yes, information visualization is heating up. With new wonderful software tools (like Tableau Public), and languages (like protovis) it seems that many can get into the game, (including yours truly, but perhaps to your detriment). And to satisfy this interest there are multiple new books, some of them quite good. I’ve read a few of [...]
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Predicting recessions
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Information Design
While leading economic indicators get a lot of the press around predicting the short term future of the economy, there is one method of predicting recessions that has a pretty good track record: an inverted yield curve. An inverted yield curve happens when long dated US treasury bonds yield less than short dated ones. Typically [...]
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NYTimes charting overkill
July 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Fun, Information Design
The NYTimes has rightfully been making a name for itself in the world of infographics. Many of their economic and sporting graphs have been sublime. But have they gone overboard? I only ask because this chart which is supposed to outline how the European teams started the World Cup poorly, but have now come on [...]
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US Monthly (Annualized) Car Sales Data, 1996 to present
July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Information Design, Travel Markets
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An ugly graph but a powerful message
July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Information Design
From the NYTImes, Economix. The chart title — Percent change of constant-dollar median usual weekly earnings by educational attainment and sex — is a mouthful, but the message is simple: 1. Men without a 4 year college degree likely earn less than their fathers 2. Men with a 4 year college degree likely earn more [...]
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TED Spread vs. US bank failures, 2000 to present
June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Information Design
The TED spread is the difference between the interbank loan rates and the short term treasury rates (3 month LIBOR – 90 day Treasuries). The higher the spread, the less faith there is in the strength of the banks. ~alex
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What’s a big ass chart to do?
June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Information Design
Or: Does data-to-ink ratio mean anything to you? I recently came across this rather large infographic illustrating how much Americans spend on their cars (initially posted on Bundle). It got a rather soft review in Flowing Data, but my sense is that it should come in for a bit harsher treatment (like maybe with a [...]
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French retirement
June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Information Design
It is considered a right in most industrialized countries: a longish (hopefully peaceful) retirement after your many years of service to society as a taxpayer and worker. And yet our long, peaceful retirements have a cost. And the longer (and more peaceful?), the costlier … as the French are finding out. (WSJ, subscription required.) The [...]
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