Showing posts with label graphs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphs. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Google insight for search

I've been playing around with the Google Insights for Search tool, and found some really pretty graphs. Here's the popularity of chocolate, as a food and drink related search over time, complete with a big bump each Christmas and a somewhat smaller bump each Valentine's day:

On the dessert theme, we can also see the seasonal rise and fall of cookies, pies, and cakes:

There's a Mason-Dixon line for interest in cookies:
with cake interest centered in the South East:
Finally, Facebook is clearly the new MySpace:

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

More economics graphs

Just a quick follow-up on my flurry of economic posts: USA Today has a well-done interactive set of three graphs, done by Moody's Economy, showing different aspects of their job-growth forcast, broken out by job sector:
(link found through FlowingData.)