infographics
Infographic: Watch 20 Years of More and More American Children Approaching the Poverty Line
Reuben Fischer-Baum · 03/29/13 04:13PMWhat Is the World Jerking Off To?
Max Read · 03/13/13 08:11AMPorn search site PornMD has, for the sake of publicity and social science, collected its most-used search terms for the last six months and accounted them by location—not just in the U.S. but across the world. Is your home state into Teen or MILF porn? What are Iranians jerking off to? All these answers—and more!
Caity Weaver · 09/26/12 11:18AM
The Dirty Kind of Sun Stroke
Adrian Chen · 07/07/11 01:09PMHere's a real infographic that ran in USA Today last Friday, July 1st. (Nobody noticed it until now because the only people who read USA Today are 74-year-old retirees.) Apparently the way the sun heats the Earth is that it gives it a hand job while whistling? In the annals of weather penises, this is a true classic.
A Brilliant Diagram of the Lord of the Rings Movies
Brian Moylan · 05/10/11 11:15AMA Brilliant Map of Where Your Tax Money Is Headed
Ryan Tate · 04/18/11 03:16PMTennessee Is the Happiest State, According to Twitter
Max Read · 04/05/11 06:40PMPhD student Alex Davies has set out to discover the happiest places in the world by analyzing Tweets. A noble project! But one that may need some tweaking, given that according to his data, the happiest U.S. state is Tennessee (tied with Arizona as the eighth most-unemployed state in the union) , and the happiest country is Germany (which, c'mon, it's Germany; if it were a happy country we wouldn't have had two different world wars).
How Race and Ethnicity is Distributed Across the U.S.
Max Read · 03/29/11 10:43PMAttention, data nerds! Numbers from the 2010 Census are being released, which means it's time to start crunching numbers and making colorful maps. New Geography has a bunch, including these two showing the concentrations of black and Hispanic respondents, respectively. Multiply the numbers in the legend by 100 to get the population percentages. [New Geography via Sociological Images]