Great places-to-avoid heatmap using distribution of photos on Panoramio. Nice idea! By BlueMoon.ee
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Data: http://bit.ly/IntNoOnes
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DESIGN: David McCandless
RESEARCH: David McCandless, Chris J Hall, Alexia Wdowski, Pearl Doughty White, Caroline Flynn, James Key (yes it was a lot of work!)
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
SOURCES: NationMaster.com, The CIA World FactBook, Wikipedia, FAO @ The UN, Press Reports
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
RESEARCH: David McCandless, Chris J Hall, Alexia Wdowski, Pearl Doughty White, Caroline Flynn, James Key (yes it was a lot of work!)
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
SOURCES: NationMaster.com, The CIA World FactBook, Wikipedia, FAO @ The UN, Press Reports
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
Posted in Data Journalism, World Map 174 Comments
Poll 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.
(They’ve run the image a bit small. Here’s a hi-res on my Flickr)
Here’s the data http://bit.ly/polldancing too. It has a load of extra info going back to 1987.
Happy voting!
DESIGN: David McCandless
RESEARCH: David McCandless, James Key
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
SOURCES: Guardian/ICM Poll Results, YouGov Trends (PDF), Ipsos MORI Research
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
RESEARCH: David McCandless, James Key
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
SOURCES: Guardian/ICM Poll Results, YouGov Trends (PDF), Ipsos MORI Research
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
Posted in Comparison Chart, Data Journalism, Guardian Datablog, Political 10 Comments
In Deep Water: Can we afford to spill any oil?
Data here: http://www.bit.ly/InDeepWater
DESIGN: David McCandless
RESEARCH: David McCandless, James Key
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock
SOURCES: International Energy Association, CIA Factbook, International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited, Press Reports
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
RESEARCH: David McCandless, James Key
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock
SOURCES: International Energy Association, CIA Factbook, International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited, Press Reports
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
Posted in Data Journalism, Environment 55 Comments
UK Political Parties: Do They Cut It?
Here 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.
This infographic for the Guardian datablog visualizes measures suggested by the parties to plug the enormous black hole in the UK’s finances. That deficit currently totals £167bn ($255bn) – more than the £152 bn ($237bn) the UK government earns from income tax every year.
See the graphic
Explore more detail, data and sources here: http://bit.ly/dotheycutit
DESIGN: David McCandless
RESEARCH: David McCandless, James Key, Matt Hancock
SOURCES: Institute Of Fiscal Studies, Guardian Datablog
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
RESEARCH: David McCandless, James Key, Matt Hancock
SOURCES: Institute Of Fiscal Studies, Guardian Datablog
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
Posted in Comparison Chart, Economics, Guardian Datablog, Infographic 6 Comments
Colours In Cultures
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.
- EXTRA A short photo story about how a version of this image ended up as the 91st and final cover design of our book, Information is Beautiful. Yes, 91 versions!
- HELP We’ve painted with a pretty broad brush. So there’s likely to be local variations or glitches. So if you spot any, or have you have references and sources for other colour meanings around the world, please send them over or comment below.
If you like this image, you can order an amazing full-colour print of it.
DESIGN: AlwaysWithHonor.com and David McCandless.
RESEARCH: David McCandless, Pearl Doughty-White, Alexia Wdowski
SOURCES: Colormatters.com, Brandcurve.com, About.com,Pantone, John Gage.
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
RESEARCH: David McCandless, Pearl Doughty-White, Alexia Wdowski
SOURCES: Colormatters.com, Brandcurve.com, About.com,Pantone, John Gage.
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
Posted in Comparison Chart, Culture, Data Journalism, Data Visualisation 26 Comments
CORRECTION & APOLOGY: Planes or Volcano?
We got our figures wrong on the CO2 emissions of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajoekull. Badly wrong.
So we want to apologise.
We pride ourselves on good data and solid information. Despite detailed research and feedback from Icelandic vulcanologists, our figures were out by a magnitude of ten.
The volcano is emitting 150,000 tons of CO2 per day, not 15,000 tons. (source)
The post was always intended as an open question. Our hope was to get the information refined and corrected. Naively, we didn’t expect the graphic to go super-viral.
We’re sorry for any confusion, annoyance and distrust this error may have caused.
We’ll do better next time.
David
p.s. Thanks for our great commenters and community for feeding back and correcting us.
Here’s the corrected visual:
Here’s the data: http://bit.ly/planevolcano
And the original post: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/
Posted in Apology, Correction, Red-faced 62 Comments
iPhone + Heidegger = Woot?
The Taxonomy Of The Apple iPhone.
A very smart and good-looking analysis of the infrastructure that supports the existence of the iPhone from Ben Millen. Both from a physical point of view and a Heideggerian perspective, in the context of culture and society.
(Do I sound like I know what I’m talking about? Excellent.)
You can zoom on the two images here and here.
(Having to zoom into these images is annoying. Visualizations don’t always work that well on screen. They’re usually much better in print. Someone ought to create a sumptuous, colourful coffee-table book of these things, I think).
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