From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Animated Infographic Using BLS Data: the Volunteers

31 August 2010
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Do you volunteer? Do you want to volunteer? If you do, do you prefer education and youth services, the environment and animal care, hospital or other health care, or another kind of volunteering?
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, GOOD collaborated with Design Language to create this animated infographic of volunteers in the United [...]

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An Analysis of Topics and Story Sources — Bloggers vs. the Traditional Press

26 August 2010
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Have you ever wondered where bloggers and tweeters find their stories and topics? This is the question asked by journalism.org, in a study conducted to determine the topics and sources of social media stories. Next, GOOD and Part & Parcel collaborated to created an infographic of the results of the study. Dorian Orange created an [...]

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Mean Happiness Infographic: Which Countries Are Happiest?

25 August 2010
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How happy are we? Does the level of happiness vary by country over time? By events in a country?
GOOD and OPEN collaborated with Dorian Orange to demonstrate our mean levels of happiness by country, over time, via this animated infographic. The smiley faces represent, well, happiness, and the dips in the smile represent rising [...]

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Animation of the Tsunami Across the Pacific After the Chilean Earthquake

24 August 2010
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The earthquake in Chili on February 27th, 2010, caused massive damage within the country, but also generated a massive tsunami across the Pacific Ocean. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Tsunami Research created the animation below of the tsunami as it traveled across the Pacific.
With regards to the saying that a [...]

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The Internet’s Black Holes by Reporters without Borders

20 August 2010
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Where on earth can data roam free, and where is it filtered, controlled, and contained? Where are the black holes of information flow on the Internet?
According to Reporters without Borders, the Internet’s “Black Holes” are Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Maldives, Nepal, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. How do [...]

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Visualizing and Projecting Data into Real Space

20 August 2010
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If you could take a few statistics, codify the numbers, and represent them visually in real space, how would you do this? Christiane Keller did just that with dataMorphose as part of her diploma project. I think this is a very artistic and beautiful way to visualize data in real space — to tame it, [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Planets Testbed

16 August 2010

Last week, Team Digital Preservation released the 5th animation in their amusing take on the digital preservation problem.
In this episode, the topic is…virus protection and analysis!

Blizzard and his band of evil cronies, Team Chaos, have developed a devastating new weapon. But Never Fear trusty Viewers, tune in now to find out what those wonderful whizz-kids [...]

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