tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60098962950383400052024-03-08T17:01:47.776+08:00Graph the WorldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-11498487936289979152012-03-30T21:33:00.000+08:002012-03-30T21:33:50.134+08:00Graph: US Supreme Court Justices - Age and TenureWhat are the age and tenure trends of US Supreme Court justices? Which are the youngest and oldest justices in recent times? How have the tenures changed over the years? My interest in these questions was piqued by a recent Wall Street Journal article, written by Berkeley law professor John Yoo on the Obamacare hearings, which alluded to the increasing age and tenure of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-63305069600736869562012-03-16T11:15:00.000+08:002012-04-01T18:43:52.733+08:00Tip: Where To Find Free Images For Your Website or BlogWhere can you find free images for your website or blog? This tip shows you where!
Want an Apple image for free?
Most of these sites selected allow the use of the images for many purposes (including on your website or blog as well as some commercial purposes) without attribution, but the policy can differ from image to image, so do check carefully before you use! Here’s the list of top 6 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-33206383519081400602012-03-15T12:42:00.001+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.016+08:00Tip: How To Make Free Maps For Your Blog or WebsiteHow do you make a world map (or regional / country maps) with data that you can use on your blog or website? Google Maps is obviously one tool that can be used, but I do not like the interface and the colours. The customization of features is also somewhat limited. This tip shows you some good tools (online and offline) that you can use to generate and customize such maps.
1) Gunn Interactive
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-74238311866175549782012-03-10T14:39:00.002+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.016+08:00Graph: The World's Billionaires 2012 (Part 3)Which industry should you go into if you want to be a billionaire? The chart below shows which industries have the highest number of billionaires and the highest total net worth of billionaires.
Data Source: Forbes; Classifications of industry are modified
From the chart, the top 3 industries with the most number of billionaires is Investments (145), followed by Fashion and Retail (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-80570652775461654062012-03-09T22:24:00.006+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.016+08:00Graph: The World's Billionaires 2012 (Part 2)Which country and continent has the most billionaires? This Part 2 on the World's Billionaires, based on the list recently released by Forbes, shows the number of billionaires by country. [In this case, the country refers to the country where the billionaire has citizenship.]
Data Source: Forbes
From the chart, you can see that the US has by far the largest number of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-42405471794918159752012-03-08T23:59:00.013+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.016+08:00Graph: The World's Billionaires 2012 (Part 1)What is the age distribution of the world's billionaires? Who are the youngest and the oldest billionaires? Forbes just released their annual list of the World's Billionaires, which they started 25 years ago. Then, there were 140 billionaires, now there are 1,226 billionaires. [Note: The figures are calculated as at March 2012, according to this methodology.]
The next series of graphs Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-84263300409313093472012-03-06T12:02:00.001+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.017+08:00Graph: The Price of Gold & The Cash Cost of Mining GoldThis post looks at the average gold price and the average cash cost of mining gold in recent years, in the graph below. The averages are over each year.
Data Source: VM Group, Haliburton Mineral Services
From the graph, you can see that both the gold price and the cash cost of mining gold have been increasing over the years. The difference between the two has also been increasing.
What is cash Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-52843684582090882272012-03-05T18:12:00.001+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.017+08:00Graph: The Price of GoldToday, we look at the historical gold price (nominal) from 1972 (the US left the gold standard in 1971) to now, in the graph below.
Data Source: Bundesbank; Prices are monthly averages of London afternoon fix spot prices
As you can see from the graphs, the gold price per ounce stayed in a band of US$200 – 500 from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Then it started increasingly rapidly, together with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-52493893208243412402012-02-20T17:55:00.002+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.028+08:00Graph: Largest Stock Exchanges in the WorldThe largest stock exchanges in the world, by total market capitalization of firms listed on the exchange, is in the chart below.
Data Source: World Federation of Exchanges
Other than the top 7 exchanges, also mentioned in an earlier post, the next tier of exchanges include the following:
viii) TMX Group - This is the group of Canadian exchanges.
ix) BM&FBOVESPA - from Brazil
x) Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-30454512102141126072012-02-19T16:25:00.002+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.031+08:00Graph: Stock Exchanges of the WorldThe following chart captures the market capitalization and number of listed firms on the world's stock exchanges.
Data Source: World Federation of Exchanges
From the chart, the largest or major stock exchanges in the world (as defined by total market capitalization and average market capitalization of firms listed on the exchange) are the following:
i) NYSE Euronext (US) - This is by far the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-15473945038133645172012-02-12T10:20:00.003+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.032+08:00Graph: Major Producers of PoultryThis graph shows the top producers of poultry, by country, in the world. As you can see from the chart, a large majority of the poultry produced in the world is chicken. The top 3 countries USA, China and Brazil account for a large majority of the poultry production.
Data Source: UN FAO
Next, let us look at the breakdown of the poultry production by the type of fowl. For chicken production Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-16483204516288681022012-02-11T10:20:00.003+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.032+08:00Graph: Egg Production in the WorldThe number of eggs produced in the world in a year is quite significant - about 1.3 trillion. The vast majority of these eggs are from the chicken (1.2 trillion), as you can see from the graph for 2010 below.
Data Source: UN FAO
If we look at the countries that produce the most eggs in the world, we can see that China is by far on the top of the list in terms of both chicken eggs and other bird Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-72809105892024287742012-02-10T11:28:00.003+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.032+08:00Graph: The Largest Animals in The WorldThis is a graph on a lighter topic - which are the largest animals in the world?
Data Source: Wikipedia
The largest animal (and mammal) in the world is the Blue Whale.
The largest fish is the Whale Shark.
The largest land animal (and land mammal) is the African Bush Elephant.
The largest reptile is the Saltwater Crocodile.
The largest snake is the Green Ananconda.
The largest lizard is the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-89859245114975549392012-02-05T18:24:00.012+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.035+08:00Graph: World – Population and GDP by Country (Part 3)This graph continues from two earlier posts. It shows the top 15 countries by GDP per capita. These are essentially the dots that are clustered in the left part of the chart in Part 1.
Data Source: World Bank
You can see that the list is dominated by small / smallish countries (e.g. Monaco, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Bermuda, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Macau, Sweden and Ireland), but there Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-29098600470016634762012-02-04T18:19:00.005+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.035+08:00Graph: World – Population and GDP by Country (Part 2)This graph is a continuation of an earlier post, showing the GDP and population by country, as well as the GDP per capita (which is the gradient of each data point). It zooms into the “2nd tier” of countries (see the red box in the chart below).
Data Source: World Bank
This next chart zooms into the red box from the chart above.
Data Source: World Bank
Out of this 2nd tier group highlighted, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-63781730128559370682012-02-03T18:14:00.008+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.035+08:00Graph: World – Population and GDP by Country (Part 1)This graph shows the GDP and population by country, as well as the GDP per capita (which is the gradient of each data point). This is similar to an earlier post on Africa. It illustrates the largest economies in the world by GDP and population.
Data Source: World Bank
Some points of note:
a) US: The United States is still by far the largest economy in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-11582605623607587562012-02-02T09:46:00.061+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.040+08:00Graph: Africa - GDP per capitaFrom an earlier post, there are a number of African countries with GDP per capita higher than the mean (i.e. the countries above the mean line in the graph below) that we did not look at.
Data Source: World Bank
Zooming into these countries, we can see which of the African countries have the highest GDP per capita.
Data Source: World Bank
The economies of many of these countries Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-66161057840858844932012-02-01T16:19:00.004+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.047+08:00Graph: Africa - GDP and GovernanceThis graph shows the governance score for the top 20 African countries (by GDP). The scores range from around -2.5 to 2.5, with higher values corresponding to better governance.
Data Source: World Bank
We can see that the countries with scores close to or greater than zero are South Africa, Tunisia, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia and Mauritius. Coupled with the findings from a previous post on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-85217497853089176862012-01-29T00:01:00.006+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.047+08:00Graph: Africa – Population and GDPThis graph shows the GDP and population of the African countries, as well as the GDP per capita (which is the gradient of each data point).
Data Source: World Bank
The chart might be useful in terms of thinking about which African countries are doing well economically to invest in – High GDP implies a strong economy; High Population implies a potential large domestic market; High GDP per Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-6595046383803361832012-01-28T12:30:00.011+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.051+08:00Map: The Freedom of CountriesThis map shows the freedom in the world – the freedom ratings by country in 2011. There is a large cluster of countries in the Middle East / North Africa, Russia / Central Asia, China and Indo-China where the countries are rated “not free”. Note that these are ratings by Freedom House on political rights and civil liberties for the year 2011, which take into account the events of the Arab Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-85596031519711438672012-01-27T11:46:00.009+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.052+08:00Map: Christian Population in the WorldThis map shows the number of Christians as a percentage of the total population in each country. As you can see, the countries with large percentage of Christians are in Europe, North America, South America and sub-Saharan Africa. Again, the map shows the number of Christians as a percentage of the total population in each country, not the number of Christians in each country.
Data Source: PewPhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250032881935295024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-77414910724114989132012-01-26T11:33:00.008+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.052+08:00Map: Muslim Population in the WorldThis map shows the number of Muslims as a percentage of the total population in each country. As you can see, there is a large concentration of countries in the Middle East / North Africa / Central Asia belt where the country percentage of Muslims is highest (usually more than 95%). The other large cluster is in the Southeast Asia region, including Indonesia and Malaysia.
Data Source: Pew Philiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250032881935295024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-3306504222284776382012-01-25T14:50:00.008+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.052+08:00Map: Crime Statistics - Homicide RatesThis map shows the homicide rates in the world, by country. The data is from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, where intentional homicide is defined as “unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person”. It should be the technical term for what we know as murder.
Data Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime
From the map, we can see that the countries with the highest homicide Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-54779942006545844102012-01-20T15:30:00.022+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.079+08:00Tip: How To Include Sitemap Gadget on Your BlogHow can you include a sitemap gadget (listing all your posts by date) on your Blogger blog? See for example the sitemap gadget on the right side of this blog, though this isn't exactly the same as the one you will get from the steps below.
1) Go to the website: http://itde.vccs.edu/rss2js/build.php
2) Enter the fields required as follows:
URL Enter the web address of the RSS Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009896295038340005.post-50438717337010983732012-01-02T11:29:00.001+08:002012-03-26T12:07:38.079+08:00About GraphTheWorldGraphTheWorld is an attempt to see or show the world and its phenomenon through graphs, maps, charts, infographics – basically anything visual.Philiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250032881935295024noreply@blogger.com0