People moving
“Hundreds of thousands of people immigrate every year, with some countries seeing higher rates than others. To compare and to gain a better sense of the number of people moving around, Carlo Zapponi created peoplemovin.”
Not the best representation of data, but still interesting for a few clicks.
Well-being of the nation mapped
Very interesting.
308,745,538
Most interesting, and likely very distressing to Democrats in the rust belt and midewst are the declines in congressional seats.
via ilovecharts:
Really interesting data visualization - San Francisco crime maps as elevations.
This is narcotics; click through for more!
By Doug Mccune
This is incredible. An amazing way of showing geographic-related data. Would love to see this cross-referenced with poverty, population density, and education statistics.
Source: ilovecharts
I think its important to note that this is made up of people who are finding dates online. Draw your own conclusions, but the data sample is skewed.
What makes a successful online date photo? by David McCandless
Seriously, ladies? Muscles and animals?
Source: blogut
From Facebook:
Measuring how well-off, happy or satisfied with life the citizens of a nation are is part of the Gross National Happiness movement. This graph represents how “happy” the nation is doing from day to day, by looking at how many positive and negative words people are using when they update their status: When people are using more positive words (or fewer negative words) in their status updates than usual, that day is happier than usual!
Look at Thanksgiving! This is why I’ll be going back to Detroit for Thanksgiving instead of Christmas this year. More food, more fun, more not-yet-stressed-by-the-holidays family.
Interesting mapping of the seven deadly sins across the US. See the rest here.
Source: flowingdata.com
