http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2011-04-10T23:39:00Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2011-04/2642/ <p>the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index">economist's democracy index</a> is kind of fascinating. is there a good discussion for the criteria anywhere? the 2010 document is <a href="http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy_Index_2010_web.pdf">here</a> and contains lots of good detail</p> 2011-04-10T23:39:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-01/2601/ <p>very awesome visualization of movie revenues <a href="http://www.xach.com/moviecharts/2010.html">week by week</a> over 2010</p> 2011-01-04T07:35:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-10/2363/ <p>i've linked it before, but <a href="http://www.daytum.com/">daytum</a> is pretty awesome</p> 2009-10-14T04:23:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-05/2181/ <p>car culture in america on the <a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/data/nate-silver-car-culture-stats-0609">decline</a>? that's probably not a good sign</p> 2009-05-12T01:51:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-04/2126/ <p>while the last line sounds anti-css (sort of?), it turns out <a href="http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/getting_past_the_pie_chart/">pie charts suck</a></p> 2009-04-11T15:37:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-11/2031/ <p>these <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/">election map visualizations</a> are very nicely done. do you think the color-by-population was done by hand or with some fancy software?</p> 2008-11-10T18:29:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-09/1906/ <p>skyrails sure <a href="http://flowingdata.com/2008/09/08/interactive-graph-visualization-system-skyrails/">looks pretty</a>, but does it actually help with visualization? i'd love some good examples of where it adds value</p> 2008-09-08T23:55:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2006-04/1185/ <p>a <a href="http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=6281434&amp;size=o">very interesting graph</a> looking at the number of photos of various cities on flickr. i'd love to see an 2006 updated version.</p> 2006-04-30T19:01:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2005-01/698/ <p>the cost of war <a href="http://www.costofwar.com/">site</a> contains some interesting, if not suprising, statistics.</p> 2005-01-31T04:40:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)