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Population (red) v. money (green) v. tweets (blue) (by vruba)

it’s not well calibrated yet

Eat, Drink and Be Thrifty (Mint.com)

via Cool Infographics

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The United States redefined by monetary transactions.

Each line connecting two counties symbolizes the flux of money between them. The bright yellow lines indicate strong flux whereas dark red indicates small flux. The network reflects the connectivity of strength between two locations. This emergent multi-scale mobility network is characterized by strong local bonds but also significant long range connections. (data from Where’s George?)

Where’s George? (tracking dollar bills across the country)

via FlowingData

ragbag:

not worth your time

when i was on my daily snow jog (making my quads look like those of a thoroughbred stallion), a glint of metal from a tarnished nickel caught my eye. here’s the thing: normally raynor ganan never breaks up his workout routine for any reason, nor does he stop to retrieve anything less than a newly-minted benjamin or a hot wheels rear loading 1969 volkswagen beach bomb—but this time i paused briefly before double-timing it up a hill to make my obliques pop. i am a consumer of luxury brands like banana republic, but what would a member of the gap bourgeois or <choke> the prole navy do in a similar situation*?

i decided to try to correlate the act of retrieving a found coin with the value of one’s time. this chart is the result. the calculations are proprietary, so i cannot reveal them though i should mention that in order to determine the average time that it takes for one to bend over and retrieve a coin, i scattered a sack of pennies outside the local all-girls catholic school and filmed the result from the tinted windows of my van.

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*another metric that i have developed to help one determine one’s class is this: the next time that you are making stuffed peppers, observe the colour of the pepper that you are stuffing. if it is green, you are unfortunately a member of the lower class. if it is red, you have found yourself in the middle class. if it is yellow, you are an aristocrat like me and are thus eligible for a banana republic luxe card.

Shaz Madani - Expenditure Chart

grey areas represent times when spending took place, white and black pins represent needs and wants, and the rings represent different days of the week (innermost ring is thursday)

Shaz Madani - What is a pound worth?