This is a pretty cool interactive data tool from the BBC. It provides a graphical way to compare numbers of people related to historic events to numbers of people you know, say your Facebook friends. So, let’s say you have 50 Facebook friends. If they were all involved in the Battle of Gettysb[...]
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August 22nd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Visualizations, Health
Dynamic run paintings with Nike+
Personal data collecting, or self-surveillance, is one of those concepts that is quite cool to some and a bit weird and self absorbed behavior to other, but, as Flowing Data says, ..with the Nike+, which lets you record your runs, thousands have taken part in measuring their performance a[...]
Illustrating the Relationships between Disease Conditions
I especially like it when an infographic can be personalized, that is, it becomes a person tool for answering specific and important questions. The Health InfoScape is an example. I try not to run graphics generated by businesses unless their area of business coninsides with the public interests[...]
Our Fat Future
Here’s a visually impactful infographic from a website called Healthy Meal Experts. My wife and I have this conversation regularly, why we’re getting so fat — except for her. What caught my eye was all the cornstarch that’s going into our diets. So what do your chil[...]