sunfoundation: Here’s a nice New York Times graphic made with numbers from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, first tumbled by thenewrepublic this morning. But we also like this nonpartisan remix by cogitativitae posted to ilovecharts: Read more →

A word cloud visualizing President Obama’s speech tonight:  Read more →

From the Guardian’s Data Blog:  The death of Amy Winehouse, widely reported as due to a suspected drug overdose, has drawn attention to drug misuse across the country. How bad are the figures?  This Google Fusion Tables map, posted by James Ball and Simon Rogers, shows drug poisoning per 100,... Read more →

I generally loathe* romantic comedy films, but plenty of others love them, apparently. They represent only about five percent of the market share in Hollywood (dramas lead with 20 percent), but Romcoms this year have grossed more than $360 million, according to The Numbers, a site that tracks a... Read more →

An interactive from The Wall Street Journal: Historically, the U.S. has run up debt during wars and recessions, but then debt has substantially declined. Read more →

The Washington Post has an excellent county-by-county interactive map that visualizes three decades of U.S. Census Bureau data. The page opens with a national view of the population in 2010 by race/ethnicity, but also allows several other views by decade. Here’s the national view, with colors r... Read more →

The world’s biggest armed forces, via The Economist:  Via: Anna Therese Day Read more →

The major candidates for president raised more than $80 million during the second quarter of 2011, according to FEC reports. Here’s where the money came from, with darker shades representing larger dollar amounts:  The view above could also be a population map. The money comes, in large measure... Read more →

The D.C. government fielded nearly 430,000 service requests via 311 last year, according to records available in the city’s open data directory. Residents asked to have potholes filled, snow and ice removed and defective parking meters repaired, among more than 100 other request categories.  Th... Read more →

Joe Golike and Sha Hwang of Trulia take a deeper look at when crime typically happens throughout the day in 25 big cities across the United States. The result, When does crime happen? is a set of interactive stack area charts that allow for detailed comparison between different types of crime... Read more →