The Map Scroll

Andrew Sullivan links to a map from the 2009 Human Development Report , which uses HDI, the Human Development Index, as a measure of the ge...

Gallup asked some people how satisfied they were with their standard of living, which yielded this result: Says Gallup: The 2009 satisfacti...

The Brookings Institution does this thing called a Metro Monitor . It monitors metros, economics-wise, and it comes with some maps. This on...

Let's check in on the old unemployment picture, shall we? Oh dear. Not good at all. Via Mike Lux , the map is from the Bureau of Labor S...

I can't improve on the blog post title from Stephen Von Worley , who maps the US by distance to the nearest McDonalds: We here at the Ma...

Via Matt Yglesias (via Ryan Avent ), an interactive map of job listings per capita for US cities: Washington, DC has far and away the most...

I've looked at this topic before , but this post by Richard Florida has a nice map, made by Scott Pennington, that shows the unevenness...

Whilst perusing the interwebs on HPI -related matters, I came across this Wikipedia map of cumulative current account balances from 1980 to...

As promised, here's more on the Happy Planet Index. This is from their map of Europe (note that it uses a different scale than the worl...

Forbes has an interactive map of manufacturing in the United States: Each of 369 metropolitan statistical areas in the US are represented ...

The New York Times has a map of foreclosures in the New York City area, with details down to the level of city blocks. It's a very unev...

The IMF has a nice interactive map showing economic growth around the world. This image shows projections for 2010: They project global gro...

Via Passport , a Foreign Policy blog, a Google Earth map showing the pile-up of cargo ships bobbing idly outside of Singapore. It's a s...

I'm just gonna keep on keeping on with this intranational HDI comparison kick. Today: China! There's obviously a huge range in the ...

I wanted to see if other wealthy countries were similar to the US in having a region within their borders that doesn't really live up to...

That map of states by human development index score reminded me of something. Remember this New York Times map of voting shifts from 2004 ...

EDIT WITH HUGE DISCLAIMER : The US HDI is not at all comparable to the world HDI. The data which this map represent are not, in fact based o...

Mint has a visualization of trade relations between the US and China, and between those countries and the world. Some numbers from the grap...

More mappiness via Matt Yglesias . He links to a post by Andrew Gelman that has these maps: The maps are pertinent to an article (pdf) , wh...

This map showed unemployment at the county level. And this map showed the unemployment rate over time at the state level. Now, in a sort o...