The True Size Of Africa
Brilliant infographic from Kai Krause (perhaps the Kai Krause?) to combat rampant ‘immappancy’
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FOUR GREAT INFOGRAPHICS No. 9
Dataflow 2 is a collection of the latest data visualizations and information graphics sprouting from the fledgling infoviz scene. Everything’s here: computational art, newspaper infographics, academic spidergrams. Although there is a strange absence of work from Information Is Beautiful. Grump!
Read moreTerror Alerts vs Elections
Accusations today over the timings of terror alerts and elections.
Read moreYou’ve Been Quango’ed
The UK has over 1000 quangos (quasi-autonomous non-government organisations). Many will be nixed in the next wave of government austerity measures. Discover the biggest and the ones for whom the bell tolls..
Read moreWho’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade?
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Read moreUpdates Are Beautiful No 2
We’ve been working on some under-the-hood updates on the site and content. Here they are:
Read moreThe UK Tax Gap Visualized
The Tax Gap is the difference between tax collected and the potential tax out there.
Read moreThe Beauty Of Data Visualization
Here’s a recent talk I gave at TED Global Oxford about my passion for data visualization and information design.Here’s the page on TED.com if the video isn’t working for you. It’s also on YouTube. Enjoy!
Read moreHow Many Times Has Dr Who Travelled In Time?
Every single Dr Who journey ever. Crowdsourced ultra-geek dataset for The Guardian.
Read morePseudovariety in Soft Drinks
Three firms own 89% of your sugar water.
Read moreWikipedia’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
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