Comments on: The Billion Dollar Gram

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:47:23 +0000

I think the total debt African HAS to pay to the Western world should be green (spending) not orange (the color of giving).

By: Peter Mount

Peter Mount — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:03:44 +0000

Excellent book, but on p.26 of Information is Beautiful your diagram shows a mobile charger generates 0.26 tons of CO2 a year and a medium car 2.6tons. Surely a mobile charger is less than a tenth of a car? Decimal point inaccuracy? Thing is that people think turning their charger off will help save the world – this error supports that. The fact is it won’t – makes you feel good but has no noticeable effect on CO2 production. Not driving the car does!

By: The Billion Dollar gram « Slightlyfamous

The Billion Dollar gram « Slightlyfamous — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:31:28 +0000

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By: marco

marco — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:30:29 +0000

i’d add some indices of the expenditure on huge scientific experiments (such as the Large Hadron Collider) !

By: Saul Davidman

Saul Davidman — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:55:13 +0000

This is a great way to visualize our priorities.

By: Atner

Atner — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:30:34 +0000

Nice diagram to show the budget. I will use it to show the budget of regions.
Maybe anybody know some software to produce such nice pictures?

By: Fritz Glunk

Fritz Glunk — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:19:33 +0000

We, the German political magazine DIE GAZETTE, took the liberty to translate the texts in your highky impressive into German.
We are at present asked by the biggest south German daily, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, to lat them reprint the picture with our translation.
Credits (InformationIsBeautiful) will of course be given.
We sincerely hope you agree with this procedure.
Respectfully yours,
Fritz

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:53:02 +0000

Completely useless if you don’t lock image real estate to dollar amount, which you didn’t. What gives?

By: swen

swen — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:01:01 +0000

would be interesting to add:
$$ spent on international aid by US
% of that aid spent purely on Israel
its actually quite a heartbreaking comparison

By: The Crucible

The Crucible — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:20:58 +0000

These visuals are awesome. A great way to show how f-ed up our priorities are as a society. Keep up the good work on all of the visuals.