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Old Testament/New Testament reference graphic

June 27th, 2011

Old Testament / New Testament Reference Map

I’ve struggled with a way to visually depict how often (and how) the New Testament writers used the Old Testament, whether explicitly (quotations) or implicitly (allusions). While trying to come up with something useful and visually appealing, I found two separate, yet very useful tools:

  • New Testament References to Old Testament Scriptures (http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/ntot.htm) — a list of OT quotations. Thanks to Carl, at mb-soft, for permission to use their data in generating this graphic;
  • Circos (http://circos.ca) — a collection of perl scripts to generate radial convergence diagrams; originally designed for visualizing genomic data.

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BBC News – Time zones: About time

April 7th, 2011

 

 

An interesting look at how time zones work, by the BBC: BBC News – Time zones: About time. Covers time around the world, including Antarctica, and even in space (at the International Space Station). Wonder why Indiana’s different? Or why China only has one time zone? These and lots of other questions are covered in this clever app. Take it for a spin…

GOOD.is | Political Climate – An Interactive Timeline Scaling

November 2nd, 2010

If you have been wondering how Americans’ concerns have changed over time and/or by party, look no further than GOOD.is | Political Climate – An Interactive Timeline Scaling. An interactive Flash-based infographic, the Political Climate chart shows how Americans feel about everything from the economy to healthcare to crime, morals, and immigration. You can select a composite view or break it down by political party (Democrat or Republican), year by year since 2001. Enlightening to compare the two parties’ views. Click back-and-forth between them and see how they fared.

OddlySpecific.com: Warning…

September 18th, 2010

Oddlyspecific.com has some great pictures. Here are a couple.

In case you weren’t aware of what a balcony really is…

…and I couldn’t resist reposting this warning (though it doesn’t apply to you!):

[Thanks to Neal Levene (http://simplecomplexity.net/posting/) for posting the balcony graphic [via oddlyspecific.com].]

StatJump – Data Search Made Easy

July 11th, 2010

A few days ago, the great Revolutions blog posted (“Visualizing the census“) about a new utility called StatJump where you can visualize data from the 2010 US Census using, of course, R. Pretty impressive. The image here shows the percentage of students graduating High School, by county. There are tons of canned visualizations — just click one of the menu items (e.g. “Social Demographic Data”) on the home page. You can also run your own searches, though it only seems to return the data in a table — i.e. I haven’t figured out how to generate these maps from my own search. Very powerful tool, considering all those data being searched.