Data 360, A Wiki For Data, is a site with a tremendous collection of data visualizations. I’ve selected 10 recent submissions to the wiki, but there are pages and pages of visualizations and data sets.

Data360 is an open-source, non-profit and free website. The site hosts a common and shared database, from which any organization which is committed to neutrality and non-partisanship (meaning “let the data speak”), can use the site for presentation of their reports and visualizations about the data.

Tracking the Second Wave

While concern over the spread of the H1N1 virus sweeps the country, epidemiologists in New York and a few other cities that were awash in swine flu last spring are detecting very little evidence of a resurgence. Hartocollis and McNeil. New York Times.

Expanding Coverage

Estimated changes in coverage under the Senate Finance Committee health-care proposal; millions of non-elderly people. Adamy and Weisman. Wall Street Journal.

Where the Parts Come From

To get the troubled 787 Dreamliner back on track after more than two years of delays, officials at Boeing Co. are counting on interpreters who can handle 28 languages, earthquake detectors and high-resolution video cameras. Michaels and Sanders. Wall Street Journal.

Landlords Squeezed

Apartment vacancies hit their highest point since 1986, surging in cities from Raleigh, N.C., to Tacoma, Wash., as rising unemployment continued to chip away at demand during the traditionally strong summer rental months.
The U.S. vacancy rate reached 7.8%, a 23-year high, according to Reis Inc., a New York real-estate research firm that tracks vacancies and rents in the top 79 U.S. markets. The rate is expected to climb further in the fall and winter, when rental demand is weaker, pushing vacancies to the highest levels since Reis began its count in 1980. Timiraos. Wall Street Journal.

US Unemployment Data

Track the national unemployment rate since 1948 — the first year in which the government provides data that can reliably be compared with the current rate. Numbers are seasonally adjusted. Dougherty. Wall Street Journal.

US Metropolitan Area Poverty Rates in 2008

Poverty rose in the West and Midwest last year, as slowdowns in housing and manufacturing sent more families below the poverty line, according to a Census Bureau report. Dougherty. Wall Street Journal.

Debt

The United States government is borrowing money like never before. The national debt rose by more than a third over a one-year period, far more than it ever did at any time since World War II. Norris. New York Times.

Winter vs Summer Babies

Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown that they test poorly, don’t get as far in school, earn less, are less healthy, and don’t live as long as children born at other times of year. Researchers have spent years documenting the effect and trying to understand it. Lahart. Wall Street Journal.

Plugged In

Worldwide, consumer electronics now represent 15 percent of household power demand, and that is expected to triple over the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency, making it more difficult to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.

To satisfy the demand from gadgets will require building the equivalent of 560 coal-fired power plants, or 230 nuclear plants, according to the agency. Mouawad and Galbraith. New York Times.

Appartment Vacancies

Graphic shows the ten largest effective-rent declines over the past 12 months. Nick Timiraos, Wall Street Journal.

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