How Much Gas Is Left?
Natural gas – how much is left, who’s got it and how supplies oddly mirror certain geo-politic tensions. Another little interactive visual of ours.

Acting Out
Is recycling the new typecasting? This visualisation maps HBO’s usage of the same bunch of actors across their series. . Twin it with the Movie Star Career-O-Meter which visually plots the career trajectories of 2,700 actors and directors. Some rise. Some tank. It’s nice to watch.

Wednesday Night’s All Right for Loving
Match Roger Luke DuBois’ new road atlas of the US, created using the terms people use most frequently in dating profiles with a viz of the world’s luckiest data night (Tips! Be impressive before 10pm on a Thursday; Sundays are not sexy.)

Britistics
Soothingly nostalgic and fascinatingly simple, these infographics by Matthew Rowett encapsulate the state of the UK nation in 2011.

The Treatment Path Less Trod
In the Snake Oil: Supplements vein, medical researchers point out the useful, and sometimes simple, treatments overlooked by many. Not pretty. But interesting.

Also worth a look

• One Bay Area Clever interactive transport maps from Stamen.
• The ghost world of 11 million deaths – a A 3D game world mapped by player deaths
• The entire universe Liked the ambition & colour of this cosmic viz from Omid Kashan

 
You’ll find more of this stuff on my Google blog of shared items: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/david.mccandless

• The RH Foundation Really nice interactive viz tracking various funds donated by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation. A great example of essentially very dry data given life by visualization. Shame the bubbles are not scaled according to the size of the awards. But gorgeous design from movingbrands.com.

 

• How your mobile phone is basically the ultimate tracking device German Green Party MP Malte Spitz sued Deutsche Telekom to release 6 months of mobile phone records. A scary viz of the results from Die Zeit.

 

• Flowering emotion A lovely redraw of Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions. Not sure I agree with Plutchik’s structures (interest-anticipation-vigilance?) – but it’s an intriguing symbol to contemplate. Redrawn by Shell Greenier.
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• Plant Companions Which plants grow well together and protect each other. Pretty viz from New Scientist. Graphiked Grafixnige.

 

• 892 Ways to Partition a 3 x4 Grid For nerds only, I warn you. Here’s one for non-nerds to balance it out.

 

• Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule What good have I done today? Via Nick Bilton.

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