Conversation topics on Facebook by age.
(Source: blog.stephenwolfram.com)
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Posts tagged with data viz
Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas.
(having a hard time locating the original source. if you can clue me in I’ll link to it!)
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Three different ways of looking at a 𝔸²→𝔸¹ function:
- colour the plane
- number the plane
- heights in a 3-D view
Is this a simple or complex function? It has lots of discontinuities; it doesn’t correspond in any obvious way to any classical mathematical functions; to program it would surely take a lot of “arbitrary”, non-simple specifications. And yet it’s easily recognisable to any of us.
image by Gonzalez & Woods
(Source: class.coursera.org)
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child mortality and fecundity
- over the last 50 years
- over the last 20 years
- in Ethiopia
- in Addis Ababa
- in Somali Ethiopia
The River of Myths by Hans Rosling | #BillsLetter (por GatesFoundation)
- Global oil consumption grew by 0.7% million barrels per day, or 0.7%, to reach 88 million b/d. This is a low growth number.
- Global energy consumption rose 3.5% in 2011l, OECD consumption dropping little-by-little the past few years balanced against developing economies consuming 5% more energy per year. China’s consumption grew 71%.
BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2012
Yeah, it’s kind of crazy that you can just get well-researched information online, as opposed to the slipshod journalistic I’m always drawn into.
Eric Fischer cross-referenced geolocated Tweets from across the world with data on known transport nodes. He then created what are in effect transit cartograms, with the thickness of a road or other mass transport line corresponding to the volume of Tweets sent along its path.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157628993413851/with/6804680189/
aggregated by John Burn-Murdoch on The Guardian, came to me through @vruba and reading.am.
