Overfishing visually explained
Jun 06, 2012 12:58 am • Permalink As part of their mission to reform destructive fishing practices, Ocean2012 explains the risk of catching too much fish, in motion graphics. I like the pixelated aesthetic.
See also Nigel Upchurch's video on farmed fish.
As a consumer, I'm still confused. Can someone make a list of fish I can and can't eat without disrupting ocean equilibrium?
Geography of incarceration
Jun 06, 2012 12:30 am • Permalink 
New York University graduate student Josh Begley grabbed 4,916 satellite images of prisons via the Google Maps API and put them all in one place. It's called Prison Map.
The United States is the prison capital of the world. This is not news to most people. When discussing the idea of mass incarceration, we often trot out numbers and dates and charts to explain the growth of imprisonment as both a historical phenomenon and a present-day reality.
But what does the geography of incarceration in the US actually look like? Prison Map is my attempt to answer that question.
Most are isolated boxes surrounded by a lot of field, but oddly there are some in close proximity to residential. There's one towards the bottom that actually does look like a residential area. Either it's an blip or grandma is running a prison in the basement. Probably the former.
Members Only: How to Draw in R and Make Custom Plots
Jun 05, 2012 08:32 am • Permalink When base graphics and existing packages don't do it for you, turn to low-level graphics functions to make what you want.
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