Here’s a chart that caught my eye, from a post on Why Is This Interesting about micromobility. First let’s look at the chart, which, with its log-scale and comprehensive scope, is the kind of chart that makes me excited about charts. Check it out: (See also these other great comprehensive charts: Operating Speeds by Mode […]
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Today’s Chart of the Day is an extract from a Table from Inrix (a traffic data provider), which shows the 7 most congested corridors in region. The rank is national. […]
Via Visualizing Economics, here’s a cool chart showing the percentage of a home’s value that is tied up in land (as opposed to the house itself).
Here’s the chart:
The chart’s maker, Catherine Mulbrandon, doesn’t say much about this other than to point towards the dataset, which comes from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. You […]
[…] recently released Met Council report…)
Following the chart tweeting, Brauer took some the new data and created another chart, showing both Minneapolis and Saint Paul’s populations as a percentage of their all-time peaks. It’s interesting for sure!
The key question quickly arose: Why did Saint Paul not shrink as much (by percentage) as Minneapolis following the end […]
Here’s an a propos chart. It shows the number of children killed by cars by day of the year:
A quote about it the data:
BestPlaces analyzed more than four million records of auto fatalities from the Department of Transportation Fatality Analysis Reporting System. As the graph below shows, there have been 133 child pedestrian fatalities […]
Here’s a cool chart from the New York Times, that has interactive charts for each state showing changes in electricity sources over time.
Minnesota’s chart looks like this:
The Times follows up the chart with a brief caption:
Coal has been the top source of electricity generated in Minnesota for the past two decades. But coal’s generation […]
In honor of the new Stillwater freeway grand opening, here’s a chart for you from some periodical called “Science.” It shows the results of a new meta-study of 39 other studies on carbon impacts. Here is the chart:
The key idea here, from the Science blog:
Many commonly promoted options, such as washing clothes in cold […]
Disclaimer, I work for the City of Edina, and made these charts for a presentation to the Edina Transportation Commission.
This chart is a sum of all the locations’ daily averages for bicyclists and pedestrians during the 2014 Edina bicycling and walking counts.
This chart shows the numbers are percentages of bicyclists vs pedestrians overall in […]
Disclaimer, I work for the City of Edina, and made these charts for a presentation to the Edina Transportation Commission.
This chart shows all counts taken this year and summed all the times in 15 minute intervals throughout the city. (Four of the 15 minute segments were summed together to make the chart cleaner and easier […]
[…] the key point is embedded in this wonderful chart from MnDOT:
As the chart shows, congestion has been largely flat since it peaked around the year 2000 (because of a libertarian-style freeway ramp meter experiment). Here’s the author, Nick Magrino’s, takeaway point about the report, which he uses to throw shade on a Star Tribune article that […]