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he back-to-school shopping season is one of the biggest events in the US retail industry calendar, falling second only to Christmas in terms of annual sales for many major retail chains.
View full graphic and article at Meet the Boss TV
Graphic by T Farrant | Twitter @fallenblossom
It was during the Soviet invasion of the 1970s and 80s that the Afghan government started losing control of its provinces. Under a weakened regime, warlords flourished and with it opium production began increasing rapidly as the tyrants looked for ways to fund their military existence.
View full article at Business Management Middle East
Graphic by Tiffany Farrant
For our second week in Russia we rented this apartment in St Petersburg, across the street from the Winter Palace. Although it was hardly a humble Kruschevka, it allowed us to commit seven days to a decent survey of the Hermitage galleries and also an opportunity to experience the Russian economy at the supermarket and public transport levels. The Australian media had parroted the usual American fable of Russia being a "gas station masquerading as a country" and an economy that was like an old shack, just kick the door down and the whole thing would collapse. Well, it was nothing like that, and I had a hard time convincing the young devotees of the late Navalny (I think they were able to sniff me out) that really things in Russia, which by no means perfect, were not radically different to conditions in the so-called West and in many ways even better, especially in access to education -which was my field. Last week the World Bank announced that Russia had surpassed first Germany and then Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world by GDP-PPP. This was not supposed to happen before 2027 but then Russia is full of surprises, and the ill-conceived sanctions imposed on Russians by the West have accelerated Russian economic growth, potentially catastrophically for Europe. If you find this information difficult to believe then follow this link to the World Bank website and read the section headed Figure 2: www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp/brief/ICP2021_DataViz_1
A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th).
THIS IS THE US VERSION WHERE BLUE=LEFT WING. RED=RIGHT WING.
from my book The Visual Miscellaeum (HarperCollins, Nov 2009)
www.harpercollins.com/book/pre-order.aspx?isbn13=97800617...
Find out more here:
: www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/left-vs-right/"
Order a limited edition, signed poster of this image here: informationisbeautiful.bigcartel.com/
The covers from 570 issues of The Avengers, starting with issue #1, in September 1963. They are arranged in numerical order (note the strange issue #0 in the top left, published in 1999).
This image is really worth seeing in hi-res. Some of the covers are really spectacular, and some are downright ridiculous (The Avengers on the David Letterman show? Really?)
Images/data courtesy of comicvine.com
Built with Processing - www.processing.org.
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Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science, data, art, and culture. Recently, his work has been featured by The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and Popular Science.
He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, and is an adjunct Professor in New York University’s ITP program.
How much will your Double Frozen FrapMochaChino add to your bulge and your buzz?
Inspired by data from the Guardian Datastore
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jul/27/health-healt...
Hi-res A4 PDF here
infobeautiful.s3.amazonaws.com/buzz_vs_bulge.pdf
source: Guardian Datablog, Starbucks.co.uk, Calorie Count
additional illustration: Jez Burrows
See more of my visualizations at:
My reworking of the brilliant Land Art Generator images 'Suface Area Required To Power The World' with one alternative energy source added :)
Originals are here:
www.landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
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here's my maths (probably wrong, please correct me if so)
total world energy needs per year:
198,721,800,000,000 kwH
average energy output of a human per hour
0.1 KW per human (100 watts)
365 days at 24 hours a day = 8760 energy hours per year per human
0.1 KW x 8760 hours = 876 KWh energy generated per human per year
world energy needs divided by human supply
198,721,800,000,000 / 876 = 226,851,369,863 humans required
Human body occupies
2m x 1m = 2square metres
assuming machinery and spacing between human batteries
4m x 2m = 8 square metres
requires
1, 814,810,958,904 metres for all human batteries
1.8 trillion square metres
or
18,148,810,958 = 18 billion square kilometres
world land surface area is:
148,940,000 square kilometres (wikipedia)
so would require 221 billion humans to be stacked 121 rows high across the entire land surface of the earth.
very dystopian!
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more inforgraphics at
A visual equation about the destructive potential of nukes.
Inspired by my own fear, having grown up under the shadow of films like Threads and The Day After.
And data from The Guardian Datablog
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/apr/06/north-korea-...
Visit www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/how-i-learnt-to-stop-... more details and images.
A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th).
THIS IS THE EUROPEAN & UK VERSION WHERE RED=LEFT WING. BLUE=RIGHT WING.
From my book The Visual Miscellaeum (HarperCollins, Nov 2009)
www.harpercollins.com/book/pre-order.aspx?isbn13=97800617...
Find out more here:
: www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/left-vs-right/
Order a limited edition, signed poster of this image here: www.informationisbeautiful.net/store
by David McCandless & Always WithHonor.com
Order a beautiful 6-colour print of this
informationisbeautiful.bigcartel.com/
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Data & Sources
www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/colours-in-cultures/
More visuals
www.informationisbeautiful.net/
AlwaysWithHonor.com
Illustrations and infographics for the annual report of the Bayerische Staatsforsten, Germany.
It's all about Bavarian Forestry.
WIP
Blue = *Friendly*, Green = *Host* Nation, Orange = Civilians, Grey = Enemies.
First one is function of sum, second one is function of time, or how you can dilute the media impact of a massacre by killing a few people each day for 6 years. Just remember that host nation + civilian + enemies = mostly Iraqis.
Used the cleaned dump from The Guardian.
Temperature Circle 1880-2022. Temperature change by country. Base period 1951-1980. Based on NASA GISS GISTEMP data.
Only large, human, randomized placebo-controlled trials in our data scrape – wherever possible. No animal trials. No cell studies.
We looked at the abstracts of over 1500 studies on PubMed (run by US National Library Of Medicine) and Cochrane.org (which hosts meta-studies of scientific research). It took us several months to seek out the evidence – or lack of.
sources
interactive version
www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/
data
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ndFRKaU1FaWVv...
more detail on the method and image
www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/snakeoil-scientific-e...
// MICROSONIC LANDSCAPE // An algorithmic exploration of the music we love. Each album's sound wave proposes a new spatial and unique journey by transforming sound into matter/space: the hidden into something visible.
// View all of the pieces here: realitat.com/microsonic
Do horoscopes really all just say the same thing? We scraped, analysed & visualized 22,000 to see...
Data, method & scripts here:
But how much money do musicians really get paid in this new digital marketplace?
Data & sources
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ndE9iZHhWc0pM...
idea
thecynicalmusician.com/2010/01/the-paradise-that-should-h...
Visualization of every female Avenger from volumes 1-4. First appearances are indicated by the spheres outside of the ring.
Built with Processing ( processing.org )
A spread from my beautiful book of infographics, data visualisations and information designs.
Order from Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007294662/thegooddrugs...
In the US, the book is called The Visual Miscellaneum
www.harpercollins.com/book/pre-order.aspx?isbn13=97800617...
Visit my website for more:
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
Read more here: blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/138-years-of-popular-science
Revisit of the 'If Twitter was 100 people'. Now with added content data and timelines.
more detail here:
www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/more-truth-about-twit...
sources:
www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/
www.pearanalytics.com/2009/twitter-study-reveals-interest...
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now 80 miles across and the size of Jamaica, and according to new reports is five times worse than first thought, leaking around 5000 barrels into the sea, as opposed to the 1000 barrels first estimated.
View full article at Oil and Gas US
Graphic by T Farrant | Twitter @fallenblossom
Last week, the UK government has sacked its most senior drugs advisor, Dr Professor Nutt, after he claimed cannabis was no more harmful than alcohol. And that horse-riding was riskier than taking ecstasy.
(Technically he's right. The lifetime odds of dying from ecstasy overdose is 1 in 17,803. The risk of dying from horse-riding is around double - 1 in 7,833.)
Taking the science behind his statement and mashing it up with press coverage of drug risks creates an interesting picture.
Does the BBC give good value for money? What does it spend on Mad Men and other shows? How does its budget compare to other broadcasters?
Original Guardian post here
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/mar/01/information-...
Data here
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqlCrVujNb9xdGYwWF9hVi00...
More visuals here
It’s difficult to keep track of all this shifting information on sea level rises.
So I’ve tried to sum up all the current research on sea level rises. And display which cities will flood When Sea Levels Attack!
lovely illustration work by
Joe Swainson & Laura Sullivan
sources here
www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/when-sea-levels-attack/
data here
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ncFliSmVvb2dw...
more visuals here:
Over-exploitation. Destructive fishing techniques. Polluting fish farms. If you want to eat ethically, which fish are actually fine for your fork?
Guardian piece:
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jun/24/information-...
Data:
spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CMb7wa8P...
Showing how a tweet travels around the internet.
Full article: www.ngonlinenews.com/news/the-journey-of-a-tweet/
The African continent is rapidly changing. In the next two years 2 billion dollars will bring 12 terabits of connectivity to the continent. Will africa become the world's newest outsourcing hub? Will it foster it's own tech and startup culture? The image above explores the 'infostate' of Africa in 2009.
There’s a ton of visual information piled into this piece to look at everything in more detail, check out this flickrset. Here’s some of the highlights: 1.) Population of each country, each countries two digit ccTLD (country code top-level domain) and the countries that rank in the top of the continent’s internet usage. 2.) The World Economic Forum’s Network Readiness Index Ranking is used to show which countries are the most attractive to telecom operators and investors. 3.) An overview of the various submarine cable projects. 4.) The capacity of each of those cables as well as the cost and estimated arrival dates. 5.) A spectral graph that proportionately details the penetration of internet in countries across the continent. 6.) This concentric circle graph proportionately indicates the strongest economies of Africa.
Due to a number of email requests, this graphic is available as a high-quality poster in various sizes here. It can be shipped internationally and for African buyers who can’t use paypal, Western Union or Bank Transfer is accepted. Just email us at info@appfrica.org. It's a great image to have around if your a market research group, a n educational institution or an NGO.
Temperature Circle 1880-2021. Temperature change by country. Base period 1951-1980. Based on NASA GISS GISTEMP data.
A timeline of global media scarestories.
For full size image, visit www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/mountains-o...
source: Google News Timeline
What can and can't you do online in the People's Republic?
Most of the big social websites - Facebook, Twitter, YouTube - are blocked. Many familiar sites, such as Wikipedia, remain but with entire sections or contentious pages disappeared by The Great Firewall. Porn is pretty much outlawed.
Data in this area is difficult to come by. ConceptDoppler.org is a good source but most of the information dates back to 2008. Censored search terms and online materials often vary from region to region. Sites are routinely blocked and then unblocked, sometimes on a weekly basis. You can check it for yourself in this Google Doc.
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ncFliSmVvb2dw...
More infographics and visualisations here:
Created by Professor Alasdair Rae using OS OpenData www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/05/scottish-highlands-...
Bit more playing with openflights data and orthographic projections.Perhaps haven't quite got the viewing angle in the best place but not bad for a first effort. Again, not exactly original, but I still think an effective image. Really like the raster topography colourisation.
Again shows all (or many) of the worlds flight paths; lighter colours = longer flights, darker colours = shorter flights. Backdrop is a NASA topography image.
Thanks to the internet (mainly stack exchange this time) for guiding me through the process and the wonderful community who have built QGis - truly brilliant bit of kit (and considering what we use at work amazing that it is free!).
I realise this isn't for everyone, but it keeps me out of trouble and I think its fun.
A spread from my beautiful book of infographics, data visualisations and information designs.
Order from Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007294662/thegooddrugs...
In the US, the book is called The Visual Miscellaneum
www.harpercollins.com/book/pre-order.aspx?isbn13=97800617...
Visit my website for more:
A spread from my beautiful book of infographics, data visualisations and information designs.
Order from Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007294662/thegooddrugs...
In the US, the book is called The Visual Miscellaneum
www.harpercollins.com/book/pre-order.aspx?isbn13=97800617...
Visit my website for more:
Just like in the ocean – the business world is made up of a hierarchy of big and little fish, and that the little fish sometimes become the food of the bigger fish.
View full graphic and article at Meet the Boss TV
Graphic by T Farrant | Twitter @fallenblossom