Why Vinyl Is Doing So Well Again
Blame it on hipsters? This chart from Digital Music News shows how vinyl hit another "modern-era record" in 2012, selling 4.6 million units, according to data from Nielsen Soundscan.
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Here's a map that tells you where exactly 341,817,095 Americans reside.
Blame it on hipsters? This chart from Digital Music News shows how vinyl hit another "modern-era record" in 2012, selling 4.6 million units, according to data from Nielsen Soundscan.
India has continued to reel following the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi, and now, as her attackers face charges, a map looks at the country through rape statistics
The term "blog" may be outdated, at least according to this Google Trends chart being passed around today.
What if the world were defined by its history? And what if that history was defined by Wikipedia? That's what this word-association map of each country on Earth illustrates.
With Thursday's news that Vladimir Putin plans to sign a bill that would forbid Americans from adopting Russian children, the Wall Street Journal brings us this graph that shows how patterns of U.S. overseas adoption has changed since 1999
Tom Lindeman at the Washington Post chronicles the leading causes of "violence-related" death in the U.S. from 1999 to 2007 by age group.
Today is the busiest day of the year for UPS, so you kind of have to wonder what it's like for the folks up there in the North Pole.
In the instant aftermath of the Newtown shooting last Friday, reporters worked to confirm details, investigators looked to investigate leads, misinformation was spread, and conspiracy theories were hatched, but what was happening on Wikipedia?
America's favorite data geek has brought his trademark analysis to the newfound gun control discussion today, breaking down what gun ownership in the country looks like numerically.
A series of new graphs make a compelling case that countries with more video games don't have more gun violence. The United States, as ever, remains something of an outlier.
Browse a graphic that's at once fascinating and terrifying in light of Friday's horrific events in Newtown: deadly shootings — where they took place, what weapons were used, and how many victims were lost.
This chart from Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project looks at social media's global reach, but as an interesting aside it also reveals how many people say they don't use the Internet.
Mother Jones noticed a discrepancy in the "notable deaths" lists assembled by major newspapers: the majority of the "notable" people listed were men.
That said, The Guardian points out that the number of official Jedi Knights has actually decreased in the last decade.
As we remember the anniversary of Pearl Harbor on our shores today, take some time to look at the damage World War II wrought on Britain.
Death, naturally, is party of a television show called The Walking Dead, but just how much death?
You know what job recruiters are getting sick of hearing about? Your "creativity." LinkedIn has analyzed its 187 user profiles and mapped which buzzwords were the most overused in each country this year.
This is the type of tool that will be fun for music lovers, diehard Stones fans, and amateur historians alike: maps of Rolling Stones tours starting with their first tour through was one of the biggest world tours in music history.
What with climate talks sounding scarier and scarier, it would be nice to know what's going to happen years in the future. Well, this chart might provide some clues, at least if you trust the predictive minds of its authors.
Choosing a vacation based on your current mood just got a lot easier, thanks to this new map from The Washington Post's Max Fisher.
Maps of America have recently looked red and blue, but this one is pure ink, with the names of famous authors and their geographic inspiration.
While the folks at Google who made this map of nearby stars caution that "scientific accuracy is not guaranteed" — and much of the data is drawn from Wikipedia — what they do give us is a tool for Google Chrome that is at least a tad bit educational and for the most part makes the user feel like she is about to ride Space Mountain.
Hipsters and hipster-haters, we're really happy for you that New York's L-train is back. And the return of the city's gray line means that the MTA's animated GIF of trains coming back to life is nearly complete.
In both 2008 and 2012, there were distinct geographic areas that bucked the nationwide trend toward one party. In both elections, they're legacies of America's racial divisions.
Election day is near, and from the looks of Google search trends, people are taking the opportunity to check whether Barack Obama is Muslim, socialist, or a citizen.
Romney and Obama have really hopped, skipped, and turned all across the country to campaign, as you can see in this fun animated map video of their campaign travels by statistician Jerzy Wieczorek.
Wall Street does not donate to Barack Obama like it used to, and this striking month-by-month comparison chart from Center for Responsive Politics shows just how much its fallen out of love with the president since the last election.
The internet may seem abstract, but it does actually need hardware—hardware that can be damaged by storms like Sandy. As this chart from internet intelligence group Renesys shows, outages happened across the Northeast but were concentrated in New York City.
The havoc Sandy is wrecking may cost some $20 billion in economic damage, according to risk firm Eqecat Inc. Lot of money—so much, in fact, that the costs places Sandy in the top 10 most expensive hurricanes ever, as you can see in this chart.
The denser the place, the greater the racial integration—or, in other words, cities tend to be more racially diverse while less dense areas generally have higher percentages of white people, according to this chart from Bill Rankin at racialcartography.net.
Matt Groff's chart arguing the war on drugs isn't working got a lot of flack for methodology. Well, he took it to heart and is back with an updated version with adjusted methodology—and the new chart says even when looking at data based on population, increased spending does not curb usage.
The new James Bond film Skyfall premiered in London today for the franchise's 50th anniversary, but 007 does not give as much bang for buck as he used to, according to this chart from business intelligence company BIME.
Boy Scouts released its hidden files on some 5,000 suspected pedophiles last week on a court order, and it's clear from this terrifying map from a Los Angeles Times interactive that sexual abuse affected troops across the nation.
The standard line of thought is that movement to cities correlates with more wealth, but while that works for developing countries in Asia, it doesn't apply to Africa, as these charts from the World Bank's World Development Report show.
Yes, Americans are getting fatter, but not all of us are, right? Now you can see in this interactive from Scientific American of the changing rates of obesity, heavy drinking, and tobacco use by state.
Have you ever noticed that the characters on Parks and Recreation wear a lot of plaid? The obsessive blogger at Parks and Plaid noticed and made this amazing pie chart to show which characters wear the most.
The controversial war on drugs not only costs a lot, it has done almost nothing to curb the drug addiction rate since 1970, according to this stunning chart by documentary filmmaker Matt Groff comparing the cost of drug control to the drug addiction rate.
In spite of baggage fees and rising oil prices, air travel is actually cheaper overall than it was in the past, according to this chart by Mark J. Perry of American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
J.R.R. Tolkein put a lot of detail into the world of Lord of the Rings, and one avid fan has cataloged all of those details to produce lots of charts, like this one of Middle Earth's population by race and sex.
When it comes to book publishing, not all countries are created equal, as this distorted map of the world by the International Publishers Association based on publishing market size shows.
Does being the last undefeated NFL team make a difference in playoffs? Yes, according to this chart by reddit user Tripp Jones.
Yes, okay, New Yorkers love to complain—but what are they complaining about? You can now see who's whining about what in this interactive map of New York 311-complaints by media artist Dietmar Offenhuber.
Ah, Starbucks: You know you're in civilization when you're near one, and now, you can see just how ubiquitous it is with this map of the U.S. based on Starbucks locations by If We Assume's James R. A. Davenport.
Remember Lost, that lengthy show with tons of characters and a sprawling narrative? If you still like dissecting it, designer Santiago Ortiz has created an elaborate interactive of all 115 episode scripts, visualizing the anatomy of dialogue and character relations in an overly elaborate way that, well, is just very, very Lost.
We've all heard that the housing bubble's pop led to thousands of foreclosures, but it's interactives like this from WNYC that really show how prevalent the problem was—and still is.
You'd think there would be one politically-neutral area of our lives, but no: Even our names tend to be more Republican or Democratic, according to this interactive chart from Yahoo News.
Cyberattacks are happening constantly across the globe, and now you can see what that looks in real-time with this map by the Honeynet Project that shows so many attacks, it looks and feels like it's straight out of an apocalyptic war movie.
Has your criticism with this election season's crop of infographics been that they have involved too few balloons? The Guardian has you covered.
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