Pseudovariety in Soft Drinks
Three firms own 89% of your sugar water.
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Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars
Articles of War
Read moreHacking India Is Beautiful
This week, I was lucky enough to accompany UK Prime Minister’s delegation to India as part of contingent of ‘hackers’ and civic-minded dataheads. We did a hack day with some of India’s leading developers and visualizers.
Read moreCognitive Surplus visualized
I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed.He had a stand-out statistic that snagged my mind. I thought I would visualise it.
Read moreThe Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2009
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Read moreGreat Visualizers: Always With Honor
Design duo Tyler Lang and Elsa Chaves are Always With Honor, an Portland-based design team with a specialty in beautifully simple information displays and iconography.
Read moreLive-Vizzing The Emergency Budget
“Live-vizzing” a graphic on the UK government’s emergency budget for The Guardian and Open Knowledge Foundation.
Read moreFour Great Infographics No. 8
So much great work out there at the moment, I wanted to share it with y’all.
Read moreIn Deeper Water
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Read moreiPhone + Heidegger = Woot?
The Taxonomy Of The Apple iPhone.
Read moreWorld Map Of Touristyness
Great places-to-avoid heatmap using distribution of photos on Panoramio. Nice idea! By BlueMoon.ee
Read moreBecause Every Country Is The Best At Something
International number ones
Read moreInfographical Morsels No 7
The World Cup Is So PredictableApparently some savante has come up with a formula for soothsaying the winner of this year’s World Cup. Wired UK ran an image visualising the algorithm. Designed by the always awesome SectionDesign.
Read morePoll Dancing: How accurate are opinion polls?
It’s voting day in the UK General Election today. Here’s a hackerly look at the accuracy of opinion polls for The Guardian Datablog. See if you can spot any patterns.
Read moreIn Deep Water: Can we afford to spill any oil?
Data here: http://www.bit.ly/InDeepWater
Read moreUK Political Parties: Do They Cut It?
Here in the UK, the election campaign has switched to economic matters. So that means a wave of abstract figures, jargonization and economic word-salad from the main three political parties.
Read moreColours In Cultures
What colour is happiness in China? Or good luck in Africa? Or anger in Eastern Europe? Are any colour meanings universal across cultures and continents?
Read moreCORRECTION & APOLOGY: Planes or Volcano?
We got our figures wrong on the CO2 emissions of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajoekull. Badly wrong.
Read moreFour Infographical Morsels No. 6
Fit To PerformCan work make you happy? Or does being happy make you work better? This is a little interactive piece we did with GE Healthymagination and The Economist. It uses survey data to explore the relationship between working and well-being. At work now? Have a play.Thanks to BreakfastNY for slick interactivity.
Read morePlanes or Volcano?
After three versions and much discussion, here’s the latest, corrected version of the answer.
Read moreWho Really Spends The Most On Their Military?
A story on the Guardian Datablog about unexpected results hidden in world-wide military budgets.
Read moreHow Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
Recently, the UK government passed The Digital Economy Act which included many, perhaps draconian, measures to combat online music piracy (including withdrawing broadband access for persistent pirates).
Read moreThe Solar System Music Box
Ahhhhh schweet.
Read moreUpdates Are Beautiful No.1
What Does China Censor Online?
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