The Steady March Toward An Integrated Society

A recent Wall Street Journal article examines census data for the last 40 years to show the steady march toward a more integrated society.

The article "Segregation Hits Historic Low"is based on a report by the Manhattan Institute.  The report claims "All-white neighborhoods in U.S. cities are effectively extinct."

Although this chart is simple, I like the way the lines of desegregation seem to march from the left side of the page toward the right.  It conveys a feeling of movement and progress.

It is interesting that the most segregated city now (Detroit), is more integrated than even the most integrated city of 1970 shown in the chart (or close to it).

Top Movies of 2011

This interesting chart shows the movie name, box office income by week, ranking by week and other data all on one chart.  On the xchan.com Website you can acually see similar charts going back to 2005 (as well as 1988 and 1998) in both normal and log scales.

He has another great chart that tracks where the links to his chart were coming from.  Similar look, but interesting to see how the popularity of the visualization rises and falls through reddit, google, delicious and other sites.

Avoid Injury at Burning Man

Going to burning man?  Here's an info-graphic that tells you how most people get injured, whether drugs or alcohol were involved, and what kind of treatment they get.  It looks great and conveys a lot of info, but I think they could have done a better job of allowing you to compare the difference between the years.  Instead of having the years next to each other as wedges, it would have been interesting to show how things change over time by making putting the past in the farther out rings.

What do you think?

Thanks to Awesome.good.is for the graphic.

Make 50K? You're in the Top 1%

We hear a lot of talk about the richest 1%.  When we look at this on the global level, however, it is not that unlikely that you have cracked that exclusive top 1% or close to it.  If you make  $47,000 a year or more - you're the top 1%.  It only takes $22,000 a year to make it to the top 10% globally.  Want to know where you stand?  Try the Global Rich List site to find out.

Now it is true that Americans have to be make about $380,000 a year to be in the top 1% here... but nearly 50% of all Americans fit in the 1% richest in the world category.