I created todays map of the day from the 5 most recent maps provided at the World Health Organization’s web site. The descriptions of the scale of measurments are shown in the bottom right corner of each map, denoted by an *.
You can follow their latest disease and outbreak news including the H1N1 feed, here.
Today’s MOTD is the coaching tree of the creator of the west coast offense and one of the greatest coaches of all time Bill Walsh.
In analyzing the tree, Mike Holmgren’s lineage is probably the strongest but Dennis Green’s tree is making a case bolstered by the most current super bowl winning coach, Mike Tomlin.
Today’s MOTD is a metaphor sketch of the current financial crisis. It is a lighthearted take on some serious issues but it is done clearly and with alot of skill.
Today’s MOTD is more of a piece of an infographic than what we usually post, but I think this spiral graphic concept is very unique.
If you start from the center and follow the line clockwise, you will be moving through the year from January on. I wish the graphic was vectorized and contained clearer colors to see, but again the concept is solid.
Today’s MOTD was created by Golden Section Graphics for Germany’s 60th birthday celebration since the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.
The original graphic was done in German for a magazine, however in the English version the three graphs have been cut out and arranged.
Es ist ein schones infographik, ja?
Today’s MOTD is a polar graph depicting monthly gas prices per barrel from 1999-2008.
The bullet points are major events that influenced the respective price.
Today’s MOTD was created for a flowing data contest by Luca Masud. You can view his portfolio, uploaded to the Behance Network, here.
The graphic is a multi variant analysis configured into three lanes of information to represent wealth and poverty across the United States. The top chart is a xy graph with Poverty on the Y and GDP on the X. The middle lane is the state name, and the bottom lane is the state location.
Aside from the fact that the data can be considered skewed based on GDP per capita, the overall design of the graphic is fantastic. The reader can easily map their state from the bottom up to find out what ‘disparity’ level they are.
Living in DC I can understand the findings that our city has the highest GDP per capita (small city, large paychecks). It is also not hard to imagine that there is the most poverty from 0-18 when you walk around some of the ‘forgotten’ neighborhoods.
It would be interesting to map the district based on the same values and see if there is a ‘DMZ’ line where there is a clear distinction. Also, I would like to see the same study based on population and not GDP per capita.
Earlier this year, in light of the global economic downturn, GOOD.is, a collaboration of individuals, businesses and nonprofits pushing the world forward, sponsored a contest for financial crisis infographics to explain the mess we seem to find our collective selves in. The organization offered a prize of $500 dollars for the clearest explanatory graphic, the winner to be selected by a prominent economist.
In this two part explanation, the contest winner, Jonathan Jarvis, utilizes a series of flow diagrams and icons to explain how the subprime mortgage scenarios played an integral part in the collapsing of the markets.
I think you’ll all find that J.Jarvis has effectively used representation and abstraction, as well as an appealing color and line-style palette to convey an accurate portrayal of an inherently complex situation.
This infographic was published in the New York Times, who created it from sources at First American CoreLogic, LoanPerformance, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Census Bureau, and provides an excellent look at a poor situation, namely, the foreclosure situation in America.
Much like yesterday’s MOTD, this graphic utilizes multivariate analysis, using both height, color and location in order to show the %’s of subprime mortgage foreclosures in metropolitan areas, as well as the subprime mortgage foreclosures overall.
A key difference in this infographic from yesterday’s is that simple multivariate analysis in a central map wasn’t enough. Rather, the NYT employed a systems of maps to further contextualize the data. If you draw your attention to the bottom right, there are two additional maps depicting the construction boom as well as job loss, which allows a user to draw correlations among data sets.
This is a great example of what Maga Design refers to when discussing a “system of maps” that helps create insights while driving towards outcomes.
The map was drawn up by Sir Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), the father of the garden city movement. Howard believed the living conditions of the poor, huddled masses cramped together in giant, insalubrious cities could be improved by combining the best aspects of town and country and carefully allocating space to housing, industry and agriculture.
He explained his urban planning ideas in ‘Tomorrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform’ (1898), republished as ‘Garden Cities of To-morrow’ in 1902, the year before he would actually found the very first garden city in the world: Letchworth Garden City, in the south of England. In 1920, he would found a second one, Welwyn Garden City, where he single-handedly planted a tree in the garden of each house.
The British garden city movement was important influence on the later strategy of building new towns in the UK, and spawned parallel movements in the US, Canada, Argentina, Israel and Germany. As with most instances of social engineering, the garden city movement didn’t quite achieve what it set out to do. Its laudable motives and egalitarian vision contrast with the often depressing artificiality of ‘garden cities’, and the fact that they merely function as dormitories to the larger cities they so often adjoin.
This map of a planned, but as yet unbuilt conurbation of ‘slumless, smokeless cities’ has a few notable aspects:
- Central City (pop. 58.000) is the hub for 6 surrounding garden cities (pop. 32.000 each), all given idyllic names such as Philadelphia (’brotherly love’), Rurisville (as in ‘rural’), Justitia, Gladstone (presumably after the Prime Minister), Garden City and Concord.
- Each of these 7 urban centres is surrounded by a canal, which also connects them to the neighbouring and the central cities, forming a wheel-shaped system of waterways, the Inter Municipal Canal.
- A slightly smaller circle is formed by the Inter Municipal Railway. Within this circle lie several curious institutions: ‘Homes for Waifs’ (one imagines a neighbourhood populated by petite, sulking catwalk beauties), ‘Epileptic Farms’ (must be annoying for the cows when they’re being milked), ‘Large Farms’, an ‘Insane Asylum’ and a ‘Home for Inebriates’.
- Outside the circular railway, indeed outside the circular canal, are ‘Convalescent Homes’, ‘Stone Quarries’, ‘Cemetery’, a ‘College for the Blind’ and ‘Industrial Homes’.
- Although all basically the same shape (a circle divided into four equal parts by the intersecting waterways), each of the satellite cities has a different lay-out, allowing for variation (so those inebriates aren’t unduly confused on their way home)