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Inspired by Bill Rankin’s maps, I downloaded the U.S. Census of Agriculture, which counted the number of food animals sold and moved off farms in each American county during the 2007 calendar year. This map below, created in ArcGIS 3D Analyst, details only those figures for cows, pigs and chick... Read more →

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Republicans today take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives, ending four years with the Democrats in charge. This chart, courtesy of Wikipedia, visualizes partisan control in that chamber since 1855:  Here’s the same period for the U.S. Senate:  Read more →

Who doesn’t like salsa, right? It’s America’s number-one condiment, at least in the mind of George Costanza. But not all states like it the same, apparently, according to Google, which ranks places by their search terms. This map shows the volume of Google searches for the word “salsa” in the f... Read more →

A friend and colleague contributed today’s visualization, a word cloud of the 1861 Texas Ordinance of Secession:  Source: Wordle Read more →

Let’s face it: This is a dreadful season for Dallas Cowboys fans. Romo went down, Uncle Wade got fired and the future remains uncertain. Still, historically speaking, the season hasn’t been that bad. These interactive line charts, made with the Google Visualization API, track the team’s win-los... Read more →

Watching The King’s Speech yesterday, I wondered how the various major movies genres and rating levels fare against one another at the box office. Using data from The Numbers, a site that tracks Hollywood sales and stars, and I filtered the list down to the eight most common genres — and only t... Read more →