Each Friday we share some of our favorite reporting on, and examples of, data driven visualizations that came onto our radar in the past week.
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It’s a passing thing. We’re still grumpy about it in the San Francisco Bay Area, but Peyton Manning broke the NFL record for touchdown passes last Sunday against the 49ers. (The Broncos quarterback now has 510.) Gregor Aisch and Kevin Quealy of the New York Times visualized Manning’s record, and the careers of some 250 other NFL quarterbacks since 1930, in a great set of interactive charts. (Screenshot above.)
Why a donut chart? National Geographic has boiled down bushels of detailed food-related statistics from 22 countries over 50 years into an easy-to-consume interactive graphic, What the World Eats. You can slice, dice and blend the data in countless ways: by country, type of food (grain, produce, meat, etc.), year, and calories, for example.
Working the data. If you read our Q&A with Gloria Lau, you know that data scientists at LinkedIn are doing serious work with the information we provide to them. Sohan Murthy (@sohanmurthy), a LinkedIn research consultant, is studying links between geography and job opportunities. His latest blog post has two interactive maps (for Europe and the United States) showing which skill categories are most frequently found by city. He also draws some conclusions about the results. The maps were created by Skye Riley.
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