The Poverty Jet Set

I love visualizing data and other neat stuff (yes, I’m a nerd). Here are two cool things I’ve come across recently. Click on the images to see them full sized.

First, the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System in mass transit map style:

Update: Jackson West at Laughing Squid found the artist behind the map:

Boulder, CO artist Chris Yates created an abstract, London Tube-style map of Dwight Eisenhower’s Interstate highway system which you can buy as a print for $12 plus shipping.

(via Notcot, Amy Kathryn)

And then, sorta related – a graphic estimating how many years we’d have left on this planet given that we continue to consume resources at the rate we do today:

(via Caitlin Hill)

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Post Tags: data, fun, graphics, highways, maps, nerdy, sustainability

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Danielle Smyth

These are great! Do you have any idea what the first 'popular' info map of this kind was (London Tube?)?

Mark Schoneveld

If I had to take a guess, yeah, the London Tube meme was going around several years ago. Not sure tho!

john murn

mark, i think you'd really dig my old roommate's stuff. renato umali is a film prof at uw-milwaukee, and he's a meticulous recorder of data... see some of his stuff here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rumali/sets/72057594064155783/).

Mark Schoneveld

Thanks, John. That's pretty neat.

Guest

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2605/26051202.jpg

stefania chiorean

hi mark,

do you know the original source of this graphic? it would be great if i could find out. thanks!

Mark Schoneveld

Hey Stef - look like it's from the New Scientist (see link in SM's comment below). But if you're looking for more stuff like this, you should definitely have a look at GOOD Magazine's Flickr stream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodmagazine

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