How Americans Spend Their Day
Maybe it’s the scientist in me or maybe it’s the communicator (because isn’t raw data the very building blocks of communication), but I love data. Data on just about anything: animals, web trends, weather, etc. And put that data into a colorful, interactive package and what could be better?
The NY Times did just that with an interactive graph of the results of the American Time Use Survey:
How Different Groups Spend Their Day
Beautiful graph, well implemented on the web. I can rollover it and see that when I go to sleep (between 8:30 and 9 pm) only 8% of Americans are sleeping. And I can look at what just women are doing by clicking one of the buttons on the top or I can break out an activity by clicking on it. Very well done.
