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For the research junkie or genealogy guru in you, the Super Bowl of data is right around the corner.

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Just 3 days left until the release of the 1940 Census!

This is an original blank 1940 Federal Decennial Census Population Schedule.

The 1940 census questionnaire was printed on 23 3/4” x 12 1/2” paper. The double-sided forms had space for 40 entries on each side, plus two additional lines for the 5% sample questions. The reverse side was identical except that lines were numbered 41 to 80, and the sample-line numbers were different.

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Song-worthy Cities: Places mentioned in country music hits and the words most commonly used. 

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“The investigation into the relationship between the size of a country and its prosperity shows that extreme dimensions are an advantage.”  (via)

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Senior editor Cord Jefferson discusses Jeremy Lin and how ethnicity can determine sports careers:

These numbers were certainly no accident. What happens in the NFL is the same thing that was happening in professional baseball: Black players are put in positions where strength and speed are revered (linebacker), while whites dominate positions of leadership and intelligence (quarterback). In the infamous 1987 words of Al Campanis, a former player, scout, and general manager in the MLB, the reason you don’t see blacks in leadership and management positions in sports is because they “may not have some of the necessities to be, let’s say, a field manager, or, perhaps, a general manager.” He went on to say that the reason blacks aren’t good at swimming is because they don’t have the same buoyancy as whites. Ultimately, Campanis resigned from baseball two days after letting his bigotry show, but the beliefs he held still linger.

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This Chart Is a Lonely Hunter: The Narrative Eros of the Infographic – an excellent, thorough meditation on the history, future, and cultural footprint of infographics.

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The widening global GDP gap, one of several gorgeous sociology infographics by Kiss Me I’m Polish.

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Christoph Niemann charts the elements of happiness and creativity at work.

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The new American marriage, in an infographic, based on ongoing Pew research into the rise of the new family.

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Infographic: The Rise and Fall of Online Empires
Interesting chronological look at our online evolution. 

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Climate Chain – visualizing natural ecosystems and the goods and services humans have extracted from them in the last 50 years.

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Infographics events in 2011-2012, in an infographic calendar   (via)

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Are you ready for warmer weather? Lovely, minimalist visualization of NYC famers’ market locations by information design studio MGMT.

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“Everything doesn’t have to be perfect. To idealize is also a form of suffering.” Schematics – a love story in geometric diagrams

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The rise and fall of personal computing, also in an infographic.   (via)