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TigerWoods

Infographic of the Day: Tiger's Problems vs. Jay-Z's

Today is Jay-Z's birthday--he's 40! It's also marks the last weekday in the Worst Week Ever for Tiger Woods. Jay-Z has complained about his 99 Problems; Tiger's got at least as many. How do their problems compare?READ»

MentionMap

Infographic of the Day: What Conversations are Heating Up, in Your Twitter Network?

Mentionmap creates a real-time network chart, laying out who's talking to whom.READ»

NYCincomes

Infographic of the Day: Visualizing Incomes in NYC's Neighborhoods

Now you can see which neighborhoods are rich and poor--but that might not tell you about what it costs you and me to live there, for one tricky reason.READ»

DumbClients

Infographic of the Day: Telling a Dead-beat Client to Shove It, With Pie Charts

A classic email exchange between an ungrateful client, and a put-upon designer.READ»

PresidentialApproval

Infographic of the Day: Obama's Approval Is Cratering! So What?

Almost all modern presidents have seen their approval ratings sag tremendously in their first two years of office. Bouncebacks--when they come, as with Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Carter, and even Nixon--tend to happen 2-3 years after the election.READ»

MintShopping

Infographic of the Day: Black Friday Might Be Pretty Good (Fingers Crossed!)

Mint.com's data shows that American consumers are finally waking up from economic hibernation, just in time for the biggest shopping day of the year.READ»

AttractivenessVenn

Infographic of the Day: The Brains vs. Beauty Quandry

Everyone understands the various categories displayed in this Venn diagram.READ»

PromoWebsites

Infographic of the Day: 30 Free Web Sites for Online Promotion

A chart mapping the social networking, free-marketing ecosystem.READ»

GayMarriageMap

Infographic of the Day: A Chronology of the Gay Marriage Debate

A handy map by the LA Times summarizes the sprawling, state-by-state debate.READ»

Corruption

Infographic of the Day: The 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index

Transparency International releases the 2009 edition of its signature study of international corruption--this time with infographics. How does the U.S. fare? Not great, actually.READ»

Visual Miscellaneum
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The Biggest Stories of Our Time, Visualized

For the past year, David McCandless has immersed himself in the story-telling possibilities of charts, and the fruit of those efforts--works he's done, and works contributed by a slew of all-star designers--are now collected in "The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia."READ»

CYOA

Infographic of the Day: Choose Your Own Adventure Books, Visualized

Remember those books from the 1980s? So does Christian Swinehart, and he's created a site that exhaustively graphs their branching plot lines.READ»

EducationGraph

Infographic of the Day: Does Adding Teachers Improve Education?

This graph proves the complexity of educational reform.READ»

JoblessRates

Infographic of the Day: The Jobless Rate for People Like You

Some demographics have been hit hard by the recession--while others haven't.READ»

WineTastes

Infographic of the Day: How Do Different Wines Taste?

Here's an infographic that should help anyone who loves getting drunk drinking wine, but can't tell a pinot from a merlot from 7-Eleven's new cab sav. For his class, Visualizing the Five Senses, NYU grad student Carl Tashian ...READ»

Nebulus

Infographic of the Day: Nebul.us Graphs Your Lifestream

Can infographics finally deliver on the promises of social networking?READ»

CarbonDog

Infographic of the Day: Is Owning a Dog Worse Than Owning a Hummer?

Two architects and a scientist do the math, and conclude that Fido has a massive carbon paw-print. Seriously?READ»

CarbonEmissions

Infographic of the Day: The G-20 Carbon Calculator

Tracking the carbon emissions, among G-20 countriesREAD»

LOTR

Infographic of the Day: The Plot of Lord of the Rings

Randall Munroe's claim to fame is XKCD, a Web-comic devoted to geekery which has a rabid following. Today, he's scrapped the math jokes and dry wit for a massive infographic, illustrating all of the character interactions in Lord of ...READ»

GlobalWarming

Infographic of the Day: What Seven Degrees Does to the Planet

It's hard to imagine the effects of massive warming, which is why British scientists produced this encyclopedic graphic.READ»

BrainSofa

Infographic of the Day: This Is Your Brain on Design

The designer sat down for a brain scan, thought of comfort--and turned the resulting pattern into a sofa.READ»

AskKen

Infographic of the Day: Ask Ken, a Visual Browser for Wikipedia

The hyperlink has served us well in the last 15 years or so. But I'll bet you that 15 years from now, the hyperlink will be as passé as a dial-up modem: As information proliferates, we'll need better visual organization of that ...READ»

HealthCare

Infographic of the Day: Who, Exactly, Supports a Public Option?

As it turns out, lots of people. But the results vary widely by income: The rich are nonplussed, but middle-income and poorer families are in strong support.READ»

Map

Infographic of the Day: It's a Small World, Afterall

This map shows exactly where are the most remote places in the world.READ»

Baseball

Infographic of the Day: Yankees vs. Phillies as They (Probably) Face Off in the World Series

If the Yankees win to tonight, they'll bag the American League Pennant, and head to the World Series, where they'll face the Philadelphia Phillies, with game 1 next Wednesday. You can expect a brain-deadening amount of analysis--all ...READ»

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