I’m a little late in posting this, but Amanda Cox had a fabulous graphic in the Sunday Business section this week. She took data on industrial production and showed how it indicates business cycles in the economy. (And my favorite part: watching the industrial production data chase the leading indicators on the final frame.)

We launched our interactive homicides map for New York City today. The interactive had been in the works for a long time, but kept getting sidelined by one project or another — an overly long primary season, Olympics, the election, and so forth. Andy Lehren, a database editor at the Times, drove the data collection and reporting side of the project, while Brian Hamman and Tyson Evans hooked Andy’s data up into an updatable feed. And Matthew Bloch built the terrific map that’s the front end.

Also, in completely other topics, check out Farhana Hossain and Archie Tse’s guide to the challenges in the health care debate.