The Lovely Charts and Graphs Thread

[C. Flower]

Machine Nation forum had a thread of the same name as this one, started by a poster called Ard Taoiseach.

I'm starting one here as a place to gather lovely charts and graphs that clearly and elegantly convey data of world or local interest.

One to start, on oil imports and exports - ( happily, Ireland appears to have achieved oil-free status )-



http://www.businessinsider.com/map-o...-export-2012-6

[Count Bobulescu]

Dialogue accompanying chart is here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ionaires-list/

[Dr. FIVE]

[Sam Lord]

The Baltic Dry Index. The one stop shop for an indication of economic prospects.

It is still bottom crawling. Expect no global economic recovery in the near future.




http://investmenttools.com/futures/b..._dry_index.htm

[Count Bobulescu]

[Count Bobulescu]

How we die, then and now.

[C. Flower]

How we die, then and now.

That's fascinating. We mainly seem to die of overindulgence now.

[Count Bobulescu]

Just to inject a political note, America’s long term advantage, the fastest growing working age population in the developed world. Other countries will have fewer workers to tax and pay for pensions etc.

[Count Bobulescu]

The economic history of the last 2000 years China/India/US etc.

[Count Bobulescu]

Share of global GDP over 2000 years.

[Count Bobulescu]

Share of global population over 2000 years.

[Count Bobulescu]

Hardly “lovely” but interesting nonetheless. There wasn’t a separate url for the graph in this article that looks at residential electricity costs across the EU 27. Not good news for Ireland or the greens.

What is most interesting about this graph is that it is roughly arranged in the order that countries have adopted nuclear power. In Belgium, France, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia nuclear is the major source of energy. Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria, Poland and Portugal produce no nuclear power. There does not seem to be any particular distribution indicating that nuclear produces high or low electricity prices. Most Eastern European countries have reactors from their experience with the Soviet Union. But Belgium is 54 percent nuclear and still has high electrical costs.

http://www.realclearenergy.org/chart...hs_106608.html

[Count Bobulescu]

[toxic avenger]

In memory of that very Machine Nation thread - the Tephigram:



It's not exactly clear, but I think it is elegant... The notes on interpreting the data recorded in the graph are at the met eireann link below:

http://www.met.ie/latest/valentia.asp

Dry adiabats, saturated adiobats, isotherms, dew point, isobars, elevation, it's all there. I still can't work it out, even after e-mailing met eireann for help...

[toxic avenger]

Perhaps slightly clearer, if open to debate - a graphic representing the world's 'centre of economic gravity' moving around since 1AD...



http://www.economist.com/blogs/graph...daily-chart-19