Chartporn is a blog devoted to good graphics. Here are a few that stand out to me: environmental indicators, a beautiful graph of the time takes people to get to a good sized town, 2010 ski resort guide, who owns the US national debt, how to crack a master lock and - of course - a poster to hang in your time machine. [more inside]
posted by shothotbot on Oct 21, 2009 - 13 comments

Left vs. Right , the Infographic
posted by blue_beetle on Oct 21, 2009 - 70 comments

How are Americans spending their time? An informational graphic from The New York Times.
posted by splatta on Aug 4, 2009 - 74 comments

Animated infographics explain the importance of eating Canadian.
posted by twoleftfeet on Jul 15, 2009 - 74 comments

Vizualizations and infographics to help you understand the financial crisis
posted by desjardins on Mar 14, 2009 - 14 comments

Things To Say During Sex [more inside]
posted by carsonb on Sep 5, 2008 - 92 comments

In an information age, telecommunications such as the Internet and the telephone bind people across space by eviscerating the constraints of distance. To reveal the relationships that New Yorkers have with the rest of the world, New York Talk Exchange asks: How does the city of New York connect to other cities? [more inside]
posted by pwally on Feb 20, 2008 - 10 comments

Chew On This. Take a deep breath, swallow hard, and follow the food you eat on its day-long journey through the digestive system.
posted by forallmankind on Nov 22, 2007 - 13 comments

See country data plotted as 3d bars rising from the surface of Global-i, an interactive animated globe. For other map visualizations of county data, try Maplecroft Maps, Worldmapper, and Social Explorer's Census Data Maps. Worldprocessor has over 300 beautiful physical globes depicting different data sets. A variety of different map-based visualizations are also available at Radical Cartography. For an interesting mind-map visualization of relationships between countries, check out the WINDS relation browser, based on data from the CIA Factbook. Interesting non-map-based country data presentations include Gapminder and the Worldometers. [via information aesthetics]
posted by monju_bosatsu on Apr 28, 2006 - 7 comments