Discovering the econo-blogosphere: visualizing economics

Posted: November 9th, 2009 | Author: dana | Filed under: Editorials | 3 Comments »

The world of econo-blogosphere is vast and varied.  And we’d love to share it with you, one corner at a time.  Following Reformed Brokers’ periodic table of econobloggers here and here, and WSJ’s top 25 economic blog list, we will be introducing a new list of econobloggers to watch, right here on Viewsflow, on a weekly basis.

This week, let’s get away from the world of text-heavy blogs, and see what the world of economics has to offer in visual indulgences.

Eco-nomics: who would’ve thought it’s possible to combine comics with economics?

Guardian’s Data Blog: Does a great job of showing off some beautiful visualizations.  It also has a flickr’s group to house all the graphics.

Infothetics: Because practically everything can be shown through infographics and other visual representations.

Information Is Beautiful: Visualizing data and making them beautiful.

Junk Chart: Using chart art to tell (economic) stories.

Visual Economics: Beautiful infographics chronicling everything from employment changes to global trading pattern.

Wall Stats: Get your visual guide to the financial crisis, fall of GM, death and taxes, and more.

LolFed: From the jokers that came up with LOLcats.

Strange Maps: Mapping the world old and new, sober and absurd.

Visualizing Economics: Because graphs speak louder than words.

Flowing Data: Putting all kinds of economic and social science numbers into perspective. It’s also got its own flikr group.

Maps and Charts: Serious map porn.

If you have any other ideas or suggestions for the list, please let us know in the comments section.  If you are looking to be part of our alpha experience, please click here to register.

* Resources we came across after blogging about it originally:

Datavisualization: everything from emissions, jobless rates, to typography and infographics.

Chartsbin: how many ways can you shade the world map?

Infochimps: map out any available data, to do as you wish.  It doesn’t get more open source than this.

DataMasher: true to its name, you can mash data up here.

Pachube: graph and share any data stream in real time, if the device and sensor is hooked up to the net.

LA Time’s data desk: works on all kinds of data projects, including healthcare costs and mapping out the drug war.

Visual think mag: visualizes our online activities and brands.

Good.Is: has some of the best infographics around.

Many Eyes: upload your own data set.

Data Viz: Visualizing the intersection between data and technology.

MemeTracker: Builds maps of the daily news cycle, ranging from mass media to personal blogs.

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