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.

GOOD Sheet: The First 100 Days» . infographic about the first 100 days for every president since FDR. I didn’t know Reagan was shot just 70 days in.