Amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle (as depicted by the Press Office of Münster Germany).

(found via Jo)

From Jessica Hagy’s blog (and soon to be book) - Indexed.

Data visualization whores beware. I lost much more time than I thought playing with Baby Name Wizard’s Name Voyager.

The Name Voyager charts the popularity of names from 1890 to 2005. You can see multiple names by typing only the first few letters or you can hone in on a single name to see when it made its meteoric rise (think Nevaeh in 2003) or met it’s downfall (think Mabel in 1960).

These graphs are beautiful and the fluid transitions between views are buttery smooth. Some of these graphs look like stunning landscapes.

Looks like what I imagine the Badlands to be in my mind’s eye.

O fell of but is now on the come up.

Q… What type of people go to the movies and then come home and say, “let’s name him Quentin”?

(via VSL)

This is a time lapse flash animation of who has controlled the Middle East over the last 5000 years.