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World: The price of beer in 128 countries
How much will it cost you to shout out “Mine’s a pint!” in pubs around the globe? Well, a new online database of beer prices in 128 countries will provide the answer.
With the price of a pint of beer being a similar economic indicator as the BigMac index, there might be more to it then just finding the best watering hole. Pint Price - as the database is called - provides the most data in beer drinking countries like the UK (more than 50 cities listed), US (more than 20 cities) or Germany (4 cities list) but also more exotic destinations like…
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Shopping: Bear Stearns Memorabilia at Ebay
After the whole company went for a fire sales price to competitor J.P. Morgan many of the Bear Stearns employees that now fear loosing their jobs have started to part themselves from their valued memorabilia of the once highly reputable Wall Street firm.
When you search…
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Recession: The Movie
The trailer for the latest movie from the producers of “The Iraq War”. Now playing at a theater near you.
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Visualizing the size of the banking crisis
Sizing the issue at hand seems to be the first problem. Banks keep the so called derivatives off their balance sheets (because when looking at it with a sense of black humor these instruments are a bit like the banks’ own print run of casino chips - As long as others exchange them freely for real money that’s what they are worth. When that situation changes their value changes too - well, worst case to nothing or - better said, whatever someone is willing to pay for the illusion of value)…
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Animation: Once Upon A Tide
Telling the story of our dependency on the oceans in beautiful calm pictures (well that’s how it starts). Great video - we like the excellently done mix of animation and real pictures…
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Data-Visualization: The world according to newspapers
We always knew that the press and journalists are selective with what story makes it to the cover pages or even receives a few paragraphs to be mentioned. But nobody has visualized this so far and shown how unbalanced some newspapers are regarding world news.
The two heatmaps below show news coverage by geographical region from the Daily Mail and The Economist during 2007. They are part of a series of heatmaps created within a project by French journalists Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Gilles Bruno. The two are planning to…
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Data-visualization: Charting The Banking Crisis
The web log “And Still I Persist” has made two interesting implementations available that demonstrate how data-visualization tools similar to “Gapminder’s Trendalyzer” can be used to show patterns in vast amounts of data.
They used OSG’s Boomerang technology to show changes in banks’ mortgage portfolios based on the data the banks have reported to the FDIC. The first chart / animation shows the amounts of 90+ days late mortgages and the second one visualizes the changed amounts in mortgages that…
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Environment: Greenpeace guide to greener electronics
Environment campaigning organization Greenpeace has yesterday published the 7th issue of its “Guide to greener electronics” that ranks the top 18 manufactures of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and game consoles based on their policies how to handle toxic chemicals and recycling of their goods.
In the latest version Samsung and Toshiba are leading the group with 7.7 out of 10 possible points for their policies on toxic chemicals use, e-waste amd recycling. While Toshiba took the crown this time for…
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Data-Visualization: Country Codes of the World
Currently more than 260 top level domains are in use on the Internet. While the .com domain still remains the most popular, many country domains are now widely used as well.
On the map below each country is represented…
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Image: 1300 fluorescent tubes lit by overhead power lines
An image of 1301 glowing fluorescent tubes powered only by the magnetic field induced by overhead power lines on a field in England.
More information and a DVD of this art project at “Richard Box web site”…
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