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Hans Rosling takes a massive amount of data on the correlation between income and lifespan over 200 years and manages to make it come to life in a way that is way more interesting than that description sounds. (Via, weirdly, my parents. So, take that, Geoffrey “This is too highbrow for BuzzFeed” Shepherd.)
Sports Buzz Hoopism converted every NBA player's stats into alien gingerbread avatars. This meeting of sports nerds, design nerds and graph nerds is fascinating. I'm not a sports fan and have no idea who he is, but Eddie House's stat-man is cute as a button.
Interactive timeline identifying the hundreds of samples in Girl Talk's new album 'All Day'. Data is pulled live from Wikipedia.
That's 12 volumes, by the way. Good nighttime reading.
Music Buzz Visual music patterns. Enjoy. [Ed Note: Ah, so that's what music looks like. I had always assumed it was more colorful, though maybe that's just the acid talking.]
Business Buzz Very cool map shows how Walmart has taken over America in the span of a few short decades. Although this is not a new project it is getting shared on Twitter like crazy and lots of people missed it when it first came out.
Music Buzz Why is Evan Roth a bad ass mother fucker? Because he makes videos like this! Jay-Z video where the word Brooklyn creates the rapper's image. It was created as part of a campaign to fight AIDs in Africa and it is the first rap video with its own open source code!
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Cool video showing all the activity on Facebook across the globe.
A cool visualization technique adds up the polls in all the states, shows the margin of error in the data, and let’s you see at a glance the chances of each candidate getting the 270 electoral college votes need to win on election day. Right now the future of our country is entirely within the margin of error. Makes you feel safe, doesn’t it?
A look at the cost of the major wars the U.S. has been involved in, displayed in today’s dollar. Even more interesting: Look at the interactive map and check out the cost as percentage of GDP, and Iraq and Afghanistan shrink dramatically.
And you thought these reactions were bad. A million face palms is not…
