2012-02-07
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The Chromatic London Underground Map by fdansv on Flickr:
The purpose of this map is chiefly aesthethic, as well as an attempt of providing an alternative visualization of our beloved network.
Buy your A2 numbered copy for £14.99 here or see the original post in my blog here.
2011-07-28
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Daily chart: where the world’s livestock lives. There are three times as many chickens as humans, according to new statistics from the UN. China has more chickens than any other country, yet tiny Brunei boasts 40 birds per citizen.
On the full Economist page, there’s this surprising (to me, anyway) nugget:
New Zealand lives up to its reputation as the world’s most productive shepherd, with 7.5 sheep for each New Zealander. It is also the second biggest cattle herdsman, with the equivalent of 2.3 cows per person
Unfortunately, you’d never get the cattle figure from the chart, because they’re ranked by population, not per-capita population. I think that’s a shame, because the per-capita figures are the more interesting of the two. (Look at Denmark’s 2.24 pigs per person, far higher than anything else in that top twenty. Presumably all that bacon they used to advertise on British TV was actually Danish.)
2011-03-04
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Tube upgrade chart 2011 (by Darren)
I quite like this graph of the various upgrade programmes.
2011-03-01
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Distribution of land, Norway ca. 1915, posted to Flickr by Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane, the archive of the region of Norway that contains Bergen and a bunch of stunningly attractive fjords.
2010-11-18
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kryz:
Germany > New York > Sweden > California > New Zealand > Arkansas > Britain > Mississippi > Italy.
From the Economist, but note that there’s some questions over whether the surveys are worth comparing; the similar analysis at The Map Scroll provides quite different results.
2010-04-09
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“Infographic” (by Phil Gyford, repurposed under a by-nc-sa Creative Commons licence). Previously.
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Infographics are the new animated gifs.
I’m sure this rant wasn’t inspired by today’s Uboxing the iPad infographic. But if it was me speaking, perhaps it would have been.
2009-07-15
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Pretty (if slightly meaningless) infographics on TfL’s page about their cycle hire scheme, currently going through planning applications across Central London.
