How to pick a cereal: the flowchartStruggling to pick a cereal from Cheerios to Coco-Pops to Corn Flakes? This very funny (and surprisingly accurate!) flow-chart does the hard work for you.
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Video of the Day: Video of the Day: Visualising the decline of empires
A great animated data visualisation shows the decline of the world’s four biggest maritime empires over the 19th and 20th centuries.
MAP: What are Americans cooking for Thanksgiving?
It’s Thanksgiving in the US, giving Americans a chance to do what they do best: eat. The NYT has mashed-up search data from Allrecipes.com with a map to see what different parts of the country will be cooking.
Australia’s disgraceful imprisonment figures
New ABS figures on Australian prisons don’t tell a pretty story, says Possum Comitatus: the NT’s imprisonment rate is up 16.9% and Indigenous imprisonment is up substantially in almost every state.
How will you die?
The Reaper’s gonna get you in the end, but predicting just how depends on your age, race, gender and lifestyle. Consult this handy chart to learn just how you will (most likely) kick the bucket.
Australia’s most hated opposition leaders
Possum Comitatus charts the final net satisfaction rating of past opposition leaders. Malcolm Turnbull may not be tracking too well at the moment, but he’ll need to sink a lot further to match the likes of Downer, Peacock and Crean.
Magazine income over the last decade
The Awl graph big US magazines’ circulation revenue versus their ad page sales, with some interesting results: contrary to popular wisdom, there’s been some actual growth in the industry.
Where do immigrants most want to live?
Despite making a big show of being unfriendly to “illegal” immigrants, both Australia and the US are among the most desirable new homes for immigrants.
Which print pubs have the richest readers?
Silicon Valley Insider charts newspapers and magazines with the wealthiest readerships. Wall Street Journal readers are the most cashed-up, while The Atlantic, The Economist and Architectural Digest readers also break the 100k mark.
Datapig: the facts on boat people, graphed for your pleasure
All the facts on the numbers of people arriving in Australia by boat since 1989, graphed for your pleasure.
A timeline of global media scares
From Y2K to swine flu, the biggest media scare stories of the past decade and the amount of panicky press they received, laid out in graph form. Who knew asteroid collisions were such a frequent and ongoing threat?
Warren Buffett’s $40 billion investment empire
Following Warren Buffett’s $34 billion buy-out of America’s second-biggest railway, this great infographic charts the history and breadth of the investor extraordinaire’s business empire and investments.
Crunching the unemployment data
Possum Comitatus charts the latest ABS Labour Force Survey, with a state-by-state, gender and age breakdown of the data.
Charting Nouriel Roubini’s horrible stockmarket calls
Nouriel Roubini is usually credited with predicting the Global Financial Crisis. However, the rest of his prognostications have been all over the place, as this handy graph shows.
Carbon emissions: which countries are cleaning up their acts?
GOOD charts the five biggest carbon dioxide emitters in each region of the world, and whether they’ve reduced or increased emissions over the past few years. Spoiler: Australia doesn’t fare well.
Deadly drugs: users vs. deaths vs. media coverage
Is Dr David Nutt correct that cannabis is no more harmful than alcohol? Does the drug just suffer from bad press? Data journalist David McCandless mashes up the government’s own data on drug death, users and press coverage to find out.
Where Australia’s arts funding goes
Following up from his great piece on the Australia Council’s failure to adapt to the digital era, Marcus Westbury charts exactly where our country’s arts funding is — and isn’t — going. In a word: orchestras.
The social networking boom
Focus graphs the boom in social networking sites over the last decade — from early pioneers like Classmates.com to recent innovators like Twitter.
Heath care spending around the world
How much do different countries spend on health care? And how well does that correlate with the health of their citizens? An eye-opening infographic from GOOD.
Internet access: more than just smut and piracy
New data shows Australia’s young people are overwhelmingly using the internet for education more than anything else — yes, even porn — but their access to the web is strongly tied to socio-economic factors. Should the government started subsidising net access for low-income families?
A graphic history of newspaper circulation
The Awl has combined circulation figures for the major US newspapers going back to 1990 to create an eye-opening chart of media carnage. One of these things is not like the others…
Possum: Swings and misses in the new pendulum
Possum Comitatus looks at the new federal election pendulum. While the electoral system still slightly favours the Coalition, even after the redistributions, it would need a swing of 2.3% to win government.
Left vs. Right politics: an amazing illustrated explanation
Check out the incredibly detailed graphics by Information is Beautiful, examining the policies, beliefs and characteristics of the average Leftie liberal or Right wing conservative.
Howard vs. Rudd at 23 months
Possum Comitatus’ visual comparison of Howard vs. Rudd on net satisfaction, preferred PM and the two-party preferred polls at 23 months in shows relatively smooth sailing for Mr 70 Per Cent.
Wall St wages vs. Average wages
A disturbing chart tracks the average tracking the average Wall St bonus against the average American wage since 1985. And despite the GFC, they’re on the rise again. No wonder bankers are feasting on $43 steaks.
