Demographics and info-graphics: how to understand America

Infographic: Animated Maps Of America’s Shifting Demographics By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At what rate are Americans coming, going, living, and dying? These animated maps tell a fascinating visual story. Most of this elec­tion sea­son’s post­mortems have focused on demo­graph­ics, a vague phrase that refers to the chang­ing face of t… RT @FastCoDesign: Infographic: Animated Maps … Continue reading Demographics and info-graphics: how to understand America

Car deaths by time of day

Infographic: Showing When People Get Killed In Cars, Using Excel By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com John Nelson’s charts and maps on traffic fatalities are a reminder that a good data viz doesn’t always require graphic design chops—or software. With the abun­dance of data visu­al­iza­tion projects we’ve seen over the last few years, it’s hard… RT @FastCoDesign: … Continue reading Car deaths by time of day

Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life

Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com 3.5 billion years of evolution, in one beautiful infographic. Life start­ed with bac­te­ria. By some cos­mic chance, amino acids became DNA and pro­teins, which togeth­er became life. It took rough­ly 2 bil­lion more years for things to get more… http://flpbd.it/Xrm83Continue reading Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life

Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

                          Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic Related articles There are 6 types of healthcare consumers; Which ones would you like to target? (medcitynews.com) When Allergies Attack - Asthma & Allergies in America [INFOGRAPHIC] (epicahealth.com) Do You Have 20/20 Vision or … Continue reading Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

Information Visualization: Drug deaths vs. press coverage

via http://www.informationisbeautiful.net David McCandless is an expert in information visualization. A great place to see his work is this website which features an interesting visualization of drug deaths and media coverage. As further evidence of this ranking please also see the scientist in the UK who has recently been fired for arguing that drug policy … Continue reading Information Visualization: Drug deaths vs. press coverage