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.
Check out their great, ingenious work in this post for The Guardian.
Here’s the full bus-heatmap mentioned in the piece.
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?
A visualisation of the meanings of different colours in different cultures by David McCandless and AlwaysWithHonor.com.
If you like this image, you can order an amazing full-colour print of it.
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).
Much was proclaimed about how these new laws would protect musicians and artists revenue and livelihoods.
But how much money do musicians really get paid in this new digital marketplace?
This image is based on an excellent post at The Cynical Musician called The Paradise That Should Have Been about pitiful digital royalties. (Thanks to Neilon for pointing that out). I’ve taken his calculations and added a few more.
As ever, this was incredibly difficult to research. Industry figures are hard to get hold of. Some are even secret. Last.Fm’s royalty and payment system is beyond comprehension. (If you can explain it to me, please get in touch)
Note: these figures do not include publishing royalties (paid to composers of songs). The full spreadsheet of data does though. You can see all the numbers and sources here:http://bit.ly/DigitalRoyalty
If you have any experiences, data or royalty statements to share, please post below!
A story on the Guardian Datablog about unexpected results hidden in world-wide military budgets.
What Does China Censor Online?
Now that Google and China are engaged in deathmatch, we’ve enhanced our visualisation of banned keywords and censored websites on the Chinese interwebs. (As ever, our data is here for your to peruse).
Thanks to amazing feedback from visitors, we’ve been able to update and regrow our ‘living image’ of the evidence for nutritional supplements. Both the interactive version, the spreadsheet of data and the still image have all been re-versioned. See this changelog for the exact differences.
Some highlights:
This week, we were spooging over Wilfred Castillo’s luscious Tide Prediction graphic but gnashing at the small size of the sample images. Lo – a beautiful full sized version to be pored over. (Thanks Wilfred)
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Pseudovariety in Soft Drinks
Three firms own 89% of your sugar water.
(Hmmm, this needs a bit of design IMHO. I might have a chop at it)
Research and visualisation by Dr Phil Howard of Michigan State University. He’s done some other, great visual explorations of key industries including organic food and seeds.
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