Datamasher maps US state-level statistics from the US census and other sources. An example is their map of fast-food restaurants versus obesity rates (above). Sometimes these are revealing, sometimes not, and sometimes their statistical reliability may not be good due to sample sizes. Makes a nice map, however.
Rhizalabs’ FluTracker also does a global mapping of [...]
NY Times: Data Center Overload
“Much of the daily material of our lives is now dematerialized and outsourced to a far-flung, unseen network … But where is ‘there,’ and what does it look like? ‘There’ is nowadays likely to be increasingly large, powerful, energy-intensive, always-on and essentially out-of-sight data centers. These centers run enormously scaled software [...]
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Subprime by Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann
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National Recessions and Regional Depression
Last year, we asked about the geography of what we called “The Depression of 2009”. This year, in February, The Economist provided a brief article pointing out the differences in regional economies in the US – Montana still growing at over 4% versus Michigan’s economy, contracting at over 7%. [...]