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No one has a comprehensive response on long-term potential impacts of climate change. Even the report compiled by the IPCC shows the limited knowledge of the possible changes that will affect human society in the coming decades because of global warming. The chapter represented examines vulnerabilities, impacts, costs and forms of adaptation of the human system in connection with the events generated by climate change. The impacts in the fields of industry, services, infrastructure and human settlements are analyzed in detail. A basic point that emerges several times in the chapter covers the importance of the level of economic development and the geographic location in determining the impacts of the violence of these events. This was therefore a factor which has become increasingly important in our analysis. Another very important factor that has influenced our decisions was the almost total absence of numerical data that could be represented. In the chapter, in fact, only specific and isolated case studies are reported and these could not provide a clear picture of the situation. For this reason, during the data processing, we have moved on two directions. First of all, we have selected from the text a series of qualitative data: we extrapolated from the report all the examples of impacts, vulnerabilities, costs and adaptation strategies. We have divided them according to the geographical area and the economic development. Concerning the numerical data, instead, we have consulted an external source, the Emdat. As for the section that explains the actors of the human system and the relationships between them, we have given particular importance to the forms of adaptability of the identified actors, seen as moments of reaction of the human system to climate change.
Project by:
Filippo Donisi
Lorenzo Fantetti
Federica Fragapane
Emanuele Luppino
Francesco Majno
Overview of the academic studies applying data visualization in Wikipedia analysis by Martina Cecchi
Kansas City Union Station
September 26, 2015
Built in 1914, Union Station opens her arms with 850,000 square feet of amazing space that originally featured 900 rooms. In her prime as a working train station, she accommodated hundreds of thousands of passengers each year. During WWII, an estimated one million travelers – many of them soldiers -- passed through the Station. The North Waiting Room (now Sprint Festival Plaza) held 10,000 people and the complex included restaurants, a cigar store, barber shop, railroad offices, the nation's largest Railway Express Building (used for shipping freight and mail) as well as a powerhouse providing steam and power. So many stories of farewells, reunions and of day-to-day vibrancy still echo in her walls. Just listen . . .
Closed in the 1980s, our Station sat empty and neglected, narrowly escaping demolition on several occasions. Then, in 1996, a historic bi-state initiative was passed to fund the Station's renovation, which was completed in grand fashion in 1999.
Union Station is once again a majestic and desired destination for our surrounding communities. She is at once, magical, warm, casual, elegant, full of surprises and wise from experience but young at heart.
credit - www.unionstation.org/about
Photographing trains for those of us that do is something in and of itself. Some use their spin to create art, some use it to portray drama, and others just want to be able to read the numberboards. But only when the final shutter click ends and the camera is lowered are you actually experiencing it for your own eyes. And at that point you get to watch your subject matter do what you came to document in the first place, etching your memory forever.
Today while I was pacing these two brutes I had a rush of memories come back to me as if I was living them again. The sight of two SD45's and their flared radiators back to back was something I hadn't experienced in quite some time. Seemingly forever ago I would watch the WC's own 45's go about their transfer work at New Brighton and beyond via bicycle. To document the times I usually had my Pentax K1000.
Fast forward a decade and the bicycle is gone, the Pentax is long retired, and most of my childhood memories can only be revisited by amateur photography and old emails, as only five former WC SD45's remain. Nowadays the railroad landscape resembles little of it's former self, I drive a Dodge Ram, and I don't have much time for photography due to my schedule (or lack of one) at BNSF. So whilst running and gunning with these guys on their trek East, I reminded myself to breath it in just a bit more than usual. To just watch these relics as they drift from side to side, bouncing ever so slightly as they roll across former Great Northern terrain, because in another ten years I'll wish I could watch them just one more time.
"These are the good old days, man."
An ecosystem is a complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities, while the non-living environment interacting as a functional unit. Ecosystems are characterized by strong interactions between the components within their boundaries, which become weaker if outside of them. They are well recognized as critical and necessary in sustaining human well-being.
Over the past 50 years, humans have converted and modified natural ecosystem more rapidly and over larger areas than in any comparable period of human history. These changes have been driven by the rapidly growing demands for Supporting, Provisioning, Regulating and Cultural services and have contributed to substantial net gains in human well-being and economic development, while resulting in a substantial and largerly irreversible loss of biodiversity and degradation in ecosystems and their goods and services.
Evidence from different parts of the world shows that in most case it is far from clear who is “in charge” of the long-term sustainability of an ecosystem, let alone of the situation under future climates. Responding and adepting to the impacts of climate change on ecosystems calleds for a clear and a structured system of decision making at all levels. Impacts of climate changes of ecosystems also shows strong interrelationships with ecosystem processes and human activities at various scales over time. Datas reported in this visual project are obtained from the 2007 IPCC Report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) whom considerations and data are mainly based on 2 scenarios: DGVM Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (based on A2 emission scenarious) and GCMs Global Climate Models (based on B1 emission scenarious).
Project by:
Matilde Arduini
Rossella Ermacora
Giulio Fagiolini
Emanuele Marsura
Giulia Minacciolo
Polar regions have suffered dramatically the consequences of global warming: ice melting, rising temperatures and the consequent transformation of flora and fauna are just few of the deep changes that marked these regions in an irreversible manner and will influence future human life and activities.
Our visualization aims to highlight the main factors that have brought these changes. The graph on the top shows the relationships data between temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and sea-ice in the last century. We have then developed two different future trends, based on the A2 and B2 IPCC Emission Scenarios.
Below, the polar regions system map, designed as the structure of an ice crystal, shows the complex tangle of relationships and flows that connects key actors, highlighting the importance of each element for the balance of the whole system.
Ice is in the centre of the visualization, as it’s the core of the entire polar environment and influences all other characters, while on the top we have greenhouse gases, which are the primary responsible of increasing temperature, and so of climatic mutation in Arctic and Antarctic.
The analysis shows crearly how polar regions heavily suffer a phenomenon to which they contribute minimally, but provoking chilling consequences which involve the whole world.
Project by:
Stefano Agabio
Marco Bernardi
Paolo Panzuti Bisanti
Alessandro Pomè
Francesco Pontiroli
Mark Newman's rendering of the 2008 presidential election. Counties are sized based on population and colored based on how they voted.
My facebook network as of September 2012 rendered with Gephi using the Fruchterman-Reingold layout algorithm.
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
The graph above is a timeline of website user registrations ordered by date beginning with Etsy's birth day, June 17, 2005.
Generated roughly at midnight EST October 2, 2007, a total of 79,713 avatars are represented. Only those users with avatar images are shown. Roughly 10% of our registered accounts have avatar images uploaded. Most registrations are for buyers making a first time purchase.
Even at full resolution, the avatars are reduced to just 4x4 pixels each to keep overall size sane. 16 pixels is just enough to make out most avatars (if you know what you're looking for).
The four day empty slot in November 2006 was when we transitioned the site to a new architecture, then named 'v2'.
Please see original resolution.
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Every bus vehicle arrival at every stop in the Portland area transit system over from 4AM to 12-midnight on a weekday.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides the freshwater availability scenarios for Europe in 2050s. As consequences of climate change, states will face variations of water availability: some of them will contend with decreasing of runoff and increasing of drought frequency, others with the opposite situation. Governments have to realize the oncoming changing and develop their water management in order to satisfy their future internal demand.
Today just few countries invest substantial money in infrastructures and understand the necessity to get ready for the next condition; the most of them has just adequate water management that will be hardly succede try out.
The visualization below has two goals. The first one is to illustrate the consequences of climate change in the water availability of each European countries. The second one is to compare the “antrophic cycle” of water in two countries with very different water managements: UK and Romania. The balance between water availability and water demand needs funds to promote infrastructures and knowledge. By this representation is possible to realize which are the actors involved and their roles, how they are connected and how climate change will worsen the gap.
Project by:
Silvia Acerbi
Paola Berardelli
Lorenzo Berte'
Samantha Pietrovito
Irene Zocco
Argonne scientists are working on more efficient techniques to allow computer visualizations of extremely complex phenomena, like this rendering of a supernova.
This astrophysics simulation seeks to discover the mechanism behind core-collapse supernovae, or the violent death of short-lived, massive stars. The image shows entropy values in the core of the supernova, different colors and transparencies assigned to different values of entropy. By selectively adjusting the color and transparency, the scientist can peel away outer layers and see values in the interior of the 3-D volume.
Image courtesy Hongfeng Yu at University of California-Davis. The dataset used was provided by scientists John Blondin at North Carolina State University and Tony Mezzacappa from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
CGI exterior visualization: good fairy by day and wicked witch by night??? Perhaps it is just Photoshop ;)
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Cartagrophy as storytelling
We are preparing a seminar in Estonian Art Academy about info visualization and this is one sample of the infographics material we are going to use there.
Climate changes generate, as decades go by, a heavy burden for health conditions. The risk is high especially for vulnerable groups in developed countries and the whole population of low-income countries (such as Sub-Saharian Africa and Asia) that have an everyday struggle with malaria, diarrheal diseases and infectious illnesses. The gap between poor and rich countries is stressed by geographical features, an unequal distribution of economic resources and a not-meditated human behavior. Researches show that human health is a product and a consequence of climate change and it depends from natural causes just for the 5%.
The rest comes from the human direct action on environmental, social and economic system. Pollution, flood, changes of temperature, water availability, heatwaves and cold-waves are factors that influences the state of world population’s health.
These problems have to be considered as areas of research for long-term interventions in order to sustain people’s adaptation to the yet to come changes. The projections for the future are not positive, because the effects of climate change are estimated to increase as decades go by.
Project by:
Federica Conversano
Irene Murrau
Lucia Palombi
Giulia Eleonora Spruzzola
Clara Zorzoli
"Vulnerability" is the word that best describes small islands' situation. These territories, placed close to the equator, in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean, are subjected to extreme natural events, such as cyclones and floodings. These natural catastrophes weaken the territory and affect both population and economy causing, on the one hand, the inability to find a stable position in the marketplace and preventing from reaching, on the other hand, the benefit needed to face such catastrophes.
Global temperature rising strongly contributes to get the situation worse: IPCC's datas show how in the last decades extreme events have increased in number and intensity in conjunction with temperature rise. Even if they're not directly responsible of climate change, small islands are those who most feel these events and they are now experiencing what the rest of the world could be forced to face in one hundred years.
Nowadays, among dissenting opinions, the solutions found are very few, not entirely effective and, most of all, hardly feasible.
Project by:
Marco Agosta
Elisa Angelico
Michele Crivellaro
Federica D’urzo
Elisa Mariangela Raciti
This infographic refers to the 2007 IPCC report about the global warming, with particular focus on food, fibre and forest production.
The data analysis highlights a huge impact on the soil capacity according to the forecast about a rise of the temperature in the next decades.
Despite the positive effect on the crop production in the short term, in 2080 the scenario expected is alarming.
The topside of this visualization shows how the temperature would affect the cereals production (maize, rice and wheat) and how this could directly influence the global percentage of the people at risk of hunger.
The growth of the population and the simultaneous decrease in crop production do not allow the balance between supply and demand: between 2050 and 2080 this gap could cause negative social-economic effects.
The second part visualizes the relations between Humanity and the other actors of the system. Main relations link Humanity with Livestock, Agriculture and Forestry (medium level), which are themselves connected with Soil and Atmosphere. This second level of the system is where the effect of the Global Warming are firstly received. Than, by the connection with the medium level, these effects would fall on Humanity.
The title of the poster encloses the whole meaning: global warming has effects on cereals and their absence causes the death of Humanity. Humanity is also the first cause of the temperature increase, so it is like a sort of self destruction.
The only way to stop this vicious circle is by changing the human behaviors. Humanity can't act directly on Soil and Atmosphere, but can try to do concrete actions against the Global Warming in order to save cereals and also itself.
Project by:
Lara Caputo
Eleonora Cattaneo
Andrea Larghi
Enrico Luparello
Anna Menegolli
There is a wealth of data that shows the value to companies of investing in employee health. It is not always easy to communicate it coherently and encourage employees to participate in wellness programs. GE Healthcare's Health Economics team has made an attempt to get it across in pictures. Watch Raquel Cabo from in GE Healthcare's Health Economics team talk about the data in the visualization.
For more information, please visit newsroom.gehealthcare.com/articles/wellness-dataviz-shows...
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
We interrupt this series of Alaskan images to bring you an important public service announcement ... TGIF!!!
OK, I know I have lots of you feeling the same way. Getting all ready to finish off this work week and dive on in to the upcoming weekend!
Last night, I was going through my archive when I noticed something. Over late spring/early summer, I spent many hours photographing and hanging out with the burrowing owls of Broward County. However, I hadn't shared many of the images of these adorable little owls. Solution ... celebrate this Friday with one of my favorite ones.
As the young burrowing owls learn the ways of their world, they tend to do a lot of flying around. The burrows are staked out, so that's the perfect landing for them. It's also obviously where they launch from as well.
I love this image, as it almost appears as though the owl was using a visualization technique as it prepped for its launch. OK ... get on the edge of the stake... up with the wings... target in sight ... that's how it's done. LOL
Hope everyone knows how their weekend plans will unfold as well. I'm excited to say that I hope to be out photographing this weekend, as it has been a while since I have. Wishing everyone the best!
Thanks for stopping by to view and especially for sharing your thoughts and comments.
© 2014 Debbie Tubridy / TNWA Photography
From Nexus: apps.facebook.com/_nexus_/
Connecticut on the left, Molecular on the bottom, WPI on top, and the Boston/Cambridge social scene on the right..
My Facebook Social Network Graph.
Pretty interesting clusters form.
If you have a Facebook account you can generate yours here.
PS. I don't know what is with this picture, but a low of people favorite it ...
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA