This is brilliant. The very talented Alberto Antoniazzi has created a ‘Most Popular Infographics’ infographic for the ever-enjoyable Guardian Datablog. I can’t believe I missed this when it was published back in October. It’s spot on. But I bet I’ll pump out a few venn diagrams, tube maps and tag clouds anyway… aaargh!
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Jul 28, 2011 • I’m currently doing a little work on a ‘Positive Living Guide’ for people living with HIV in Sri Lanka, prepared by the Grassrooted Trust. The guide includes some statistics taken from the UNAIDS 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update, reformatted into illustrations on a dot-matrix world map. Here they are: Incidentally, the dot-matrix map was created...
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Jul 25, 2011 • With the recent creation of the Republic of South Sudan (‘born’ on 9 July 2011), it’s time for world maps and atlases to be updated. And as luck would have it, the good people at The Guardian have embedded a nice map on their website using Prezi. View it here. There’s also a PDF available...
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Jul 25, 2011 • According to a report in The Economist, 1 in 7 Americans receives food stamps under the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), designed to ensure that poor Americans have enough to eat. Wow. 1 in 7? That’s 45 million people. My perception is that US welfare measures are often under reported (and under appreciated), so...
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May 23, 2011 • According to the snappily-named United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section), the global population is set to rise to 10.1 billion by 2100, up from 6.9 billion in 2010. Full details are in the comprehensive 2010 Revision of the World Population Prospects report. The Economist has a...
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May 20, 2011 • Recently I was introduced to this inspiring video, excerpted from the 2010 'CNN Heroes' awards. It's about Aki Ra, who clears landmines throughout Cambodia. As a child, Aki was forced to lay landmines by the Khmer Rouge after they murdered his family. But today, he works heroically to help clear the thousands of landmines that...
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Apr 23, 2011 • Let's say you have a bunch of addresses, and you want to quickly show them on a Google Map. The quickest way? Try BatchGeo - a very handy tool that geocodes addresses in a jiffy and outputs an embeddable, interactive map.
