Pseudovariety in Soft Drinks
Three firms own 89% of your sugar water.
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Read moreThis 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 moreI 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.
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Read moreDesign 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 more“Live-vizzing” a graphic on the UK government’s emergency budget for The Guardian and Open Knowledge Foundation.
Read moreSo much great work out there at the moment, I wanted to share it with y’all.
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Read moreThe Taxonomy Of The Apple iPhone.
Read moreGreat places-to-avoid heatmap using distribution of photos on Panoramio. Nice idea! By BlueMoon.ee
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Read moreThe 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 moreIt’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 moreData here: http://www.bit.ly/InDeepWater
Read moreHere 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 moreWhat 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 moreWe got our figures wrong on the CO2 emissions of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajoekull. Badly wrong.
Read moreFit 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 moreAfter three versions and much discussion, here’s the latest, corrected version of the answer.
Read moreA story on the Guardian Datablog about unexpected results hidden in world-wide military budgets.
Read moreRecently, 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 moreAhhhhh schweet.
Read moreWhat Does China Censor Online?
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