notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

Top: three infographics produced by HM Treasury, as posted to Pinterest and Flickr.

Bottom: chart produced by the Guardian based on Resolution Foundation data, showing the impact across income deciles.

Tea, Coffee and Milk Consumption, from Our Private Lives, posted by Michael Stoll on Flickr:

Here duly charted is a major difference in the private lives of Britons and Americans. Cups represent pounds of tea or coffee, and since a pound of tea goes farther, Britons probably drink more tea than Americans do coffee.. As for gallons of milk, Switzerland sets a target for all.

From the book America and Britain: Three Volumes in One, by P Sargant Florence; Lella Secor Florence; K B Smellie. Book published 1946; figures from 1930-1934.

U.S. Electoral College – Graphic of the Day | The Knowledge Effect at Thompson Reuters.

Most images of the electoral college that decides the US presidential election are geographical, like the ones on Nate Silver’s Five Thirty Eight blog. The above graphic scales the states by the number of electors, rather than area, and the vast red states of the south and plains look rather smaller in it than they do in a standard map - and give a better idea of the fact that the race is closer than you’d think from looking at most visualisations.

(Note that the original post was in April, so the colours of “toss up states” are more than a little out of date.)

A Dymaxion air-ocean map, from the The Utopian Impulse exhibitio, as seen in the New York Times story, R. Buckminster Fuller’s Comeback at a San Francisco Museum.

See also: the map on display at SFMOMA.

“Map of City of New York, Showing the Distribution of the Principal Nationalities by Sanitary Districts” (1895). Each pattern reflects a different ethnicity. (from, via)

How Many Photos Do Americans Take a Year? on Hyperallergic, referencing the April edition of National Geographic.

My response to that is, “so few”? I can take 255 photos on a (very) good day out, but then, I suppose not everyone has a camera, nor do they photograph everything.

Also filed under “so few?”: 

Last year, 37% of the images in the US were captured using camera phones, but by 2015, National Geographic writes, that number is expected to be 50%.

The History of Skirt Lengths from Ptak Science Books:

This graph illustrating the history of skirt lengths in the United States is oddly interesting and appealing, a job well done. I like that the graph lines fairly well reveal the amount of leg shown by the rising and lowering hemlines, measuring the height above the ankle from bottom to top.

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.

theeconomist:

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.)

Tube upgrade chart 2011 (by Darren)

I quite like this graph of the various upgrade programmes.