Marc Gayle

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World Hunger {Infographic}

As a topic that is near and dear to my heart, this infographic prepared by the fine folks over at stripes39.com is absolutely interesting.

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Debt in Europe [Infographic]

The New York Times has a wonderful post that illustrates the web of debt weaved in Europe.

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To read the full post, click here.

Who has the most servers on the internet? [Infographic]

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I have been stumbling across many of these infographics lately, and I couldn’t not share them here.

Intac.net recently put out an awesome infographic that illustrates the companies that dominate the internet (in terms of number of servers). Guess who is the leader, by a long shot. It’s quite staggering actually.Make sure to read the disclaimer at the bottom though….there’s always a disclaimer. Still informative and quite telling.

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To check out the full post, go here.

P.S. Image 1 courtesy of Patrick H Lauke on Flickr.

Apple vs Google vs Microsoft [Infographic]

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Gizmodo recently put out a very interesting infographic that illustrates the many product spaces that the big three are directly competing with. Oh how I love free markets. Competition is one the of the best mechanisms ever!

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To check out the full post at Gizmodo,go here

P.S. Image 1 courtesy of Dunechaser on Flickr.

Selling music online [Infographic]

I love infographics that depict all sorts of useful information. Information is Beautiful has recently published an interesting one that illustrates how many music tracks or albums (in different formats) a musician would have to sell to make minimum wage.

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Go here to check out the full post and more awesome insight.

Russia vs. United States: A Visual Comparison

Following the usual high quality graphs that Mint.com usually puts out, they have added one more feather to their hat. They have done a nice illustration of the differences between the US and Russia using simple bar graphs. Two of my favorites are listed here. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="Russia Through My Eyes - St Basil's Cathederal by BudaKedrova"]
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Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World [Infographic]

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[/caption] Here is a nice graphic that compares internet speeds and costs around the world. The numbers are in nominal terms, for easy comparisons, and all in USD.

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NAFTA Visual Comparison-Canada vs. US vs. Mexico

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Mint.com frequently puts out visual graphs that take dense data and make it interesting to understand and look at. This time is no different, below are examples of an infographic that they made that compares interesting statistics between Canada, the US & Mexico.

China vs. United States [Graphical Comparison]

It seems that graphical representations of data are all the rage these days. Mint.com has decided to throw their hat in the circle and get in the game. They have an interesting post where they compare specific figures using bar graphs.   [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Welcome to China by Luo Shaoyang"]
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The Average Man's Tax Dollars

The Toilet Paper.com has a very good article on the breakdown of the tax dollars that the average man makes and exactly what the dollars go to. Here are a preview of some of them:
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