Great Graphic Illustrations

From "Mathematics for Human Survival", by Patricia Clark Kenschaft, Whittier Publications, Inc., Island Park, NY.

Pat has accumulated some great graphics, and I highlight a few of them here:

• Farmers' Declining Share of the Food Dollar
• Florence Nightingale's Area Plot from the Crimean War
• The Growing C.E.O.-Worker Pay Gap
• Ten Musical Chairs: wealth inequality in the U.S.
• Top Ten Energy Consumers, and their relative use
• Dangers to our natural resources
• Fat and Your Risk of Colon Cancer
• Tax Rates Over Time in the US

Here's one from our agricultural extension office in Campbell County, KY. I've found that farmers are great consumers of solid graphical information:

• Effect of Ph change on nutrient availability

These cartograms are fantastic for adjusting areal quantities for population:

• Election 2008 (Local Copy)
• WorldMapper does this for lots of variables

Etc.:

• Manyeyes has all kinds of cool graphing ideas
• Gapminder is another good one.