Since 1995, Transparency International has published an annual Corruption Perceptions Index, ordering the countries of the world according to "the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians." The 2009 report was released today. See the data. Play around with their interactive map. (warning, map will resize your browser window)
posted by Afroblanco on Nov 17, 2009 - 29 comments

The jobless rate for people like you.
posted by Afroblanco on Nov 9, 2009 - 113 comments

See What You Think. Information Is Beautiful.
posted by SinisterPurpose on Aug 17, 2009 - 33 comments

What does randomness look like? Random Walk asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness. via Information Aethetics, obviously.
posted by signal on May 30, 2009 - 21 comments

code_swarm, an animated visualization of open source software project commits. e.g.: Python.
posted by signal on Jun 18, 2008 - 18 comments

The 2007 Feltron Annual Report . via
posted by signal on Jun 8, 2008 - 13 comments

The web. In logos. Categorized. via.
posted by signal on Jun 12, 2007 - 23 comments

The significance of the dinosaurs' death has been greatly exaggerated. This article in Nature discusses how mammalian evolution accelerated independent from the death of dinosaurs. The theory was derived from a "supertree" [pdf ~ 1mb] of mammals and how common ancestors have branched out. Coolest info-graphic ever.
posted by phyrewerx on Mar 28, 2007 - 33 comments

Contrived is the new original. via.
posted by signal on Mar 10, 2007 - 38 comments

Real Time Rome, the MIT SENSEable City Lab’s contribution to the 2006 Venice Biennale, aggregated data from cell phones, buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real time. via information aesthetics
posted by signal on Sep 18, 2006 - 4 comments

Web Authoring Statistics from Google. An analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata.
posted by signal on Jan 26, 2006 - 29 comments