iPhone diagram

So beautiful and elegant! If only I could find a bigger version and actually read the text!

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Legos

Oh, this brings back memories....

via Chart Porn

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Deciding Whether or Not to Upgrade

With my contract coming to an end soon with my current cellphone carrier, I've begun looking into whether I want to upgrade up to a better phone or go with something else entirely. Luckily Chart Porn posted this infographic today to help me decide.

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A Visual History of the American Presidency

Jam packed with all sorts of information, this is a go-to source for info about the American Presidency. The creator of the Infographic has quite a resume:

"Designed by Nathaniel Pearlman--one of the founders of Time Plots, which creates infographic posters, and also a former student of Edward Tufte--the Visual History provides historical data on population, presidential elections, Congress, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, the U.S. economy, and the federal budget and debt. And that, '...places each president in historical context, visualizing a remarkable range of political, social, and economic measures to succinctly tell the story of the presidency.'"

via Fast Company

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Hotspots for Tourists vs. Locals

Wow if I could make this infographic into a poster I would. At the very least it deserves a new place of honor as my desktop wallpaper. Anyway, Eric Fischer has put together a bunch of maps of major cities based on photos uploaded to Flickr. In addition to mapping where the most photos were being uploaded, he also broke the data down into his guesstimation of which ones were taken by tourists and which ones were locals.  Here's how he describes the breakdown:

"Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

Yellow points are pictures where it can't be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven't taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all."

Check out the full set of maps on Flickr.

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Designing an Infographic

Ever wonder the intricate details in the design and thought process that went into creating a totally awesome infographic? Check out Smashing Magazine's latest article about how they developed their "World of Programming" Infographic.

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The BP Oil Spill

Since it first erupted on the news, the media has been bombarding the public with all kinds of guesstimates about the scale and scope of the BP oil disaster and has spawned countless infographics trying to convey the size of the oil spill. If It Was My Home has created the simplest and easiest one I've come across, with no numbers or figures or comparisons to previous oil spills. All it is is a picture of the oil spill overlaid on Google Maps. Awesome, frightening, and definitely drives the message home in a clear and concise manner.

via Flowing Data

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