Kyoto: Who’s On Target?
There’s a lot of talk of a new world climate agreement in Copenhagen in December to succeed Kyoto. I wondered how the signatories of the first one were doing. Make up your own mind.
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Great Visualizers: Michael Paukner
I’m really loving this guy’s visualization style. And the esoteric subjects too. I’ve got a bunch of esoteria visualized in my book. Sadly, for me, I think Michael does a better job.
Read moreFatal Infection
A few people asked for this. And I was curious about it too. So here it is. Case fatality rates for well-known diseases.
Read moreFour Infographic Morsels
How To Get Replies Online DatingDating site OKCupid examined which words in an opening email to women increased or decreased the chances of a reply. Hilarious and revealing.
Read moreWhat Does Your Soul Look Like?
I’m trying to create a piece of interactive art. Can you help by drawing something? It should only take 5 minutes.
Read moreThe Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions
The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions
Read moreSurface Area Required To Solar Power The World
According to the United Nations 170,000 square kilometers of forest is destroyed each year. If we constructed solar farms at the same rate, we would be finished in 3 years.
Read moreGreat Visualizers: Good Magazine
Good Magazine is good. It’s a non-profit mag with a powerful eco-sustainability-we-can-do-this-together vibe. And when you subscribe, they give your money to charity!
Read moreSwine Flu Latest: Visualized!
With the help of the excellent Guardian Datastore, we’ve been tracking Swine Flu (“novel H1N1 virus”) as it creeps across the globe and starts to feeds into the autumnal ‘flu season. There are some surprising results.
Read moreTimelines: time travel in popular film & tv
Here’s a visualisation of time travel plots in various films and TV programs. I had a lot of fun doing this!
Read moreMore Truth About Twitter
Revisited If Twitter Was 100 People with some interesting new data
Read moreThe Billion Dollar Gram
Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. What does it all look like? Hopefully The Billion Dollar Gram will help.
Read moreWalled World
Mind-opening viz from Td Architects in Holland. I didn’t know about the Schengen ‘Wall’.
Read morePatterns in the Group Mind
I’ve been playing with Google Insights. It’s a great toy. It measures ‘search intensity’. The number of searches being made for a certain term.
Read moreMountains Out Of Molehills
Watch out! A timeline of global media scare stories.
Read moreThe Death Of The Music Industry
Very good infographic from the New York Times conveys the dwindling death knells of the music industry. Analysts give it 10 years.
Read moreCaffeine and Calories
How much will your Double Frozen FrapMochaChino add to both your bulge and your buzz?
Read moreWON! The Guardian’s Visualisation Contest
Volte face! I take back every moan I’ve emitted about The Guardian’s treatment of data. Especially now the Reduce Your Chances Of Dying In A Plane Crash image won their visualisation competition.
Read moreMovie Monster Comparison Chart
Sizes of movie monsters compared. I thought they missed out The Blob though. The Blob got pretty big towards the end.
Read moreDrugs World
I found this image on a far-flung tumblr. It really got me excited. What a cool map of drugs.
Read moreGoogle is Not a Search Engine
It’s an advertising machine.
Read moreAfghanistan Troop Casualties
UK troops have been taking a pummelling in Afghanistan in the last few months. 2009 has been the worst year of the conflict for the UK army. 54 soldiers killed killed in action, 45 very seriously wounded.
Read moreSwine Flu: The Latest Figures
These are the latest Swine Flu figures, now hotwired to the Guardian’s. When they update, this’ll update automatically.
Read moreIf Twitter was 100 People…
There’s quite a big discussion about this on Flickr.
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