Hans Rosling on TED

Hans Rosling – global health professor from Sweden – and his amazing data presentation at one of TED talks.
Infographics visualised with Gapminder

xavier barrade

stunning visual art from xavier barrade

'cool infographics' blog

another infographics blog of another infographics geek

rafael macho design

some good infographics and other 2D/3D work by Rafael Macho

miniature earth

what if there were 100 people on the earth? a bit of stats
now appreciate what you have, will you

also: projects by Toby Ng 'The world of 100'

MAPS

Transit coalition: California metro maps, conceptual & historical
Cartogrammar: Andy Woodruff the cartographer's blog & portfolio
IndieMapper: Indie projector

range of ISSUES for NEWS project

EARTH & WORLD:
• World news (oneWorld)
• biodiversity & who cares? (environmental)
• climate change & global warming, climate change (oneWorld)
• Asian earthquake & tsunami disaster
• Second Genesis: life, but not as we know it, Second Genesis: the search for shadow life (+ slideshow), Second Genesis: making new life, Extreme life forms, Genetics, Evolution, How to hunt for shadow life
• Light pollution: Q&A, environmental protection source, lightpollution.org.uk: wasted light, light pollution atlas, night sky, Wiki, need-less light pollution, light nuisance, BBC page,
Skyglow/light pollution in UK, UK LP maps, Naked eye dark sky visibility, Night sky info, Light cost calculator
• Recycling, Environment agency, light & health, environment: pollution
• Live Earth map

SOCIETY&CULTURE
• poverty: facts & stats, children's deaths
more:
- Where and why?, Poverty around the world,
• Health issues, Diseases: ignored global killers, WHO statistical information system, Global health overview, UNICEF: unite for children

ECONOMY&POLITICS:
• global financial crisis
• global foreign aid shortfall
• corruption
• economic democracy, + The Institute for Economic democracy
• Iraq war

spiritus temporis

what happened when facts (example - 24 april 2009)

article on Isotype

Isotype archive and its origins
Gert Antz's archive page
Uni. of Reading Isotype research project (+ others on typography)
Research articles by Marija Dalbello (great resource)

soil maps of the World

massive resource of maps for all regions and countries (Europe, Africa, South & central America, Asia, USA, Canada, Russia) + very good resolution!

reporters sans frontieres

RSF - La liberté de la presse au quotidien
+ english, español, arabic, chinese languages

Lamosca

multidisciplinary design collective, lots of data- and infographics.

SEED magazine: universe in 2009

just what to expect from this year
+ article on pie charts

graphjam

see more Funny Graphs

Graphs resource

sustainability & humanity resources

sustainable table
defra – dep. of environment, food & rural affairs
Human development reports
FAO newsroom: Hunger
FCRN Research library
New Scientist: meat is murder
world population growth statistics
eat less meat

more news design resources

innovation in newspaper design
visual journalism
infographics weblog

data evolution

articles about data visualisations, e.g. this one on Colour
(subdivision of Dataspora)

statistics 120

information visualisation: PDF slides lectures archive

exploratorium

The Flash Application My Evidence by Exploratorium, Museum of science art and human perception, explores and then visualizes the way we get to know what we know. The user is asked to answer questions about facts that are hard for the individual to experience by himself. For example “Humans cause global warming” is a theory believed by many people but quite hard to proof by one individual. Going further it’s nearly impossible for the individual to know such things if it’s on its own. The answers to these questions range from “I noticed or experienced” to “I heard on TV or radio”. Further attributes of an answer are the place where someone learned it, the person’s gender or age and how much the author refutes or supports the stated fact.

blue whale kingdom

blue whale facts & comparisons