Filmed in NYC – 3 Years, 517 Movies, 17,241 Filming Locations
Based on film permit data from the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting, this map displays the filming locations of all movie scenes, 17,241 in total, filmed between 2011 and 2013...
View ArticleA Visual History of Gender and Employment
This graphic is not meant to represent a view on the wage gap debate, it is just a presentation of the data and does not account for the underlying factors that explain these differences. However, I...
View ArticleThe Single Largest Tax on Poor Families: the Lottery?
Last month the Atlantic highlighted one of the most shocking stats I had ever seen. In 2014, Americans spent $70.1 billion on the lottery. It’s hard to put that number into context, but as the article...
View ArticleAll San Francisco Film Locations Since 2013, Mapped
Based on film permits acquired via a Freedom of Information Request from the San Francisco Film Office, this map displays all San Francisco filming locations since the start of 2013 (excluding those...
View ArticleThe Most Credible UFO Sightings And An Interactive Map
Based on data from the National UFO Reporting Center, the map below displays over 90,000 reports of UFO sightings dating back to 1905. Each circle corresponds to a reported UFO, with the size...
View ArticleThe lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax
In 2014, Americans spent $70 billion on the lottery (source: NASPL sales data) In 2014, Americans spent $70 billion on the lottery. When I read this fact back in May, I thought it was one of the...
View ArticleSupport for ISIS in the Muslim World – Perceptions vs Reality
According to a Brookings report from last January: 40% of Americans believe most Muslims oppose ISIS. 14% think most Muslims support ISIS. And 44% (the plurality) of Americans believe Muslim views are...
View Article7 Maps to Help Make Sense of the Middle East
This amazing tangled knot of a diagram, made by U.K. data journalist David McCandless, displays the key players and notable relationships in the Middle East. However what it communicates clearest of...
View ArticleThe Strange and Sometimes Terrifying Santa Clauses of Europe
In the U.S., Santa Claus comes every December 24th from the North Pole, to bring presents for the good children and coal for those that have been naughty. In the Netherlands, the tradition is slightly...
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