600 Club Gets a New Member – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. A-Rod basically has the title for “youngest person to hit X home runs for everything” over 200.

OkTrends : The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating. another gem of a post from OkCupid. That height distribution chart is amazingly close.

Driving Shifts Into Reverse – NYTimes. 10,000 miles a year on average. that’s insane.

Flickr Photo Download: What Do Musicians Really Earn Online?. interesting visualization. via josh.

Github explorer. this guy built a bunch of network graphs for people and projects on github. some interesting stuff by language and country.

Why A Salad Costs More Than A Big Mac – The Consumerist. nice infographic of subsidy versus nutrition.

Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. an interesting visualization for the difference between first and last.

A Peek Into Netflix Queues – NYTimes.com. Choose Seattle, and then check out movies like “Milk” and “Paul Blart : Mall Cop”.

Problem Comparison : Jay-Z to Tiger Woods. 99 problems…

The Jobless Rate for People Like You – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. The worst off: black men ages 15 to 24 without a high school degree: 48.5%. The best off: white women ages 25 to 44 with a college degree: 3.6%

Swine Flu Mortality. now that’s an infographic.

NYC BigApps Competition – $20k In Prize Money | FlowingData. new york city has released public apis for accessing restaurant inspections, traffic, city budgets, etc. best app to use the data gets $20K and dinner with the mayor. pretty great idea.

How Different Groups Spend Their Day – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. that’s a pretty cool interactive graph.

For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word – Statistics – NYTimes.com. statistics is the new hotness.

Gauge Your Distraction While You Text and Drive in the Distracted Driving Game | FlowingData. i thought this game was pretty hard.

Facebook > The Road to 200 Million. nice New York Times infographic.

GOOD – Getting Around. how much fuel different modes of transportation uses.

crisis of credit visualized


Ever wondered how the subprime market got as big as it did and why it made everyone go bust? This 11 minute long video does a great job of explaining it. It’s very much akin to the This American Life episode about the credit crisis entitled Giant Pool of Money. It also has of the best explanations I’ve seen of how a CDO works and what a CDO tranche actually is.

Man vs Woman, Decision-making for Goldstar Beer | FlowingData. I like the last one best. “Thank God your a Man”

browserwars.png. an interesting data visualization.