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NPR has produced five maps on the electric grid, power sources, power plants, solar power, and wind power for its Grid series.
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New York Magazine nails it again.
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Redhat has published two open source maps showing worldwide Open Source Index (OSI) based on research by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). The OSI is a measure of the open source activity and environment in 75 countries. Each country is given a score based on its policies, practices, and other data in the fields of Government, Industry, and Community. The activity metrics used included notice of existing open source and open standards policies and the numbers of open source software users and contributors, while the environmental indices included factors that tend to promote open source adoption.
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Strange Maps has posted a great infographic showing relative wine consumption by country in 2006.
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GOOD has an infographic of death row worldwide. The United States is one of 59 countries that still executes its citizens on a regular basis
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Nate Silver has taken the secession talk seriously—well, as seriously as possible. Texas can’t actually secede from the U.S., but it can subdivide. Nate has drawn up five states along county boundaries based on political and demographic characteristics. For a full description of each, see http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/04/messing-with-texas.html.
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Slate has an interactive map of job gain/loss by county since 2007. Two things stand out: unemployment hit very specific areas at first rather than the entire country, and the spike in national job loss around October 2008 was staggering—just watch the animation.
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The Infrastructurist has a map of dozens of high-speed rail projects under consideration by state governments today, some of which are eligible for stimulus funds. The colors indicate the seriousness of planning for the corridors. Red lines represent projects that are partially funded or providing high-speed operation today; pink lines are under intensive state planning and likely to be among the first to receive stimulus funds; green lines are far off but not inconceivable; and blue lines are very unlikely to be built in the next few decades.
Also, for comparison, the President’s plan that was released last week:
And, specific information from the Federal Railroad Administration on each of the President’s proposed corridors:
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A poll released Monday by Bendixen & Associates shows a dramatic shift in attitudes among Cuban-Americans, with 67% supporting the removal of all travel restrictions to Cuba. As the New York Times reports, Bendixen attributes this change to Obama’s recent policy announcement last week. Presidential approval ratings among Cuban-Americans haven’t been this high since the mid-1980s.
Recommended Books
Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1st Edition) by Edward R. Tufte
Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History by Franco Moretti
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
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