Thursday, June 20, 2013

Beautiful Charts, or Why I Love the Census Bureau

Stuff like this, at The Handsome Atlas, from the Statistical Atlases of 1870, 1880 and 1890:


That is part of a chart showing excise revenue from alcohol in each state in the country.  There are all kinds of cool maps, like horses per square mile by state:



If you are kind of a nerd like me, and want to kill some time, check it out.  There are all kinds of gorgeous charts laying out data in ways you'd never dream of.  Such as this:




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