History told with Oreo cookies
Mar 16, 2012 12:29 am • Permalink 
Celebrating their 100th birthday, Oreo depicts moments in history with the ever popular cookie of nostalgia and milk dunking. This one showing the first step on the moon is the best. Prohibition comes in a close second. [via]
New iPad battery size is huge
Mar 16, 2012 12:14 am • Permalink 
From Gizmodo, this shows battery size in the new iPad versus that of the iPad 2. The battery in the former is 70 percent bigger than that of the latter. Something's not right here.
[Thanks, David]
Members Only: Calendar Heatmaps to Visualize Time Series Data
Mar 15, 2012 10:18 am • Permalink The familiar but underused layout is a good way to look at patterns over time. This tutorial gives you an easy way to make them and guides you through the code so you can adapt it to your needs.
Comparing heritage in the Melting Pot
Mar 15, 2012 01:55 am • Permalink 
At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your standard county-level choropleth map of demographics. Select a self-described heritage from the first drop down and you see where all the people are by count. That's only kind of interesting, but you often just end up highlighting big cities.
However, select a heritage from the second drop down menu to compare against the first and you get a relative scale. The above for example shows those of Chinese and Indian heritage. It's a simple calculation that makes a big difference in usefulness.
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