The by now rather legendary Jer Thorp yesterday talked at TEDx Vancouver about humanizing data. He also shows some of hos greatest work. Great for inspiration. (via mindjet)
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I hadn’t seen this poll before, but it seems a YouGov Siraj internet poll has journalists from a range of otherwise respectable media outlets misinterpret data once again. The BBC writes, More than 1,000 people from 18 countries in the Middle East responded to YouGov Siraj‘s internet poll question: “In your opinion, should Syria’s President
At least 55 Syrians dislike death Read More »
Along the same lines as what UN Global Pulse is all about, Paul Conneally (then of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, now he’s with the UN’s ICT agency, ITU) in this TED Talk stresses that new data is of immense value in early warning, crisis management, and relief efforts.
Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism Read More »
I’ll do this in English, as it is a comment to a photo on the WhoScored.com Facebook page. So, just to let my readers know what WhoScored.com is. WhoScored.com is just about the coolest football site out there. Really. I love it. I use it at least a couple of times a week. Why? Because
Goals in England, Spain & Italy Read More »
Jeg er stor fan af Jonathan Franzens bøger. Korrektioner var helt og aldeles suveræn, Frihed næsten lige så god (de fleste har det vist modsat). Jeg læste begge disse bøger i papirform. Det er mere et tilfælde end et bevidst valg. Da Korrektioner udkom, var e-bøger blot ikke mange potter urin værd og Frihed købte jeg
Flyd med, Jonathan Franzen Read More »
Det er kun juleaften, jeg ved det. Og glædelig det. Men jeg vil nu alligevel lige lave en slags årsstatus allerede nu. Tak for 2011. God 2012. Jeg er lige stødt på denne fantastiske stop-motion animationsvideo fra The Theory, som hedder “Address Is Approximate”. Og det er jo meget sandt. Lige nu. For mig. Videoen
Adresse er omtrentlig Read More »
Craig (the one of Craigslist) has a social good blog called craigconnects which is definitely worth a read. The other day he posted a cool infographic on “Who Rules Social Media“. Animal lovers and environmentalists really do talk a lot, don’t they.
Which NGO’s Rule Social Media Read More »
Periscopic has a pretty great visualization of the Republican Candidates’ topics during the debates. Obviously there were a lot of interesting topics during the one in Rochester, Michigan, yesterday, but in Las Vegas, Nevada, about a month ago, they touched the subject of Foreign Aid.
Republican Candidates’ Topics Read More »
Nice video interview with the brilliant Stephanie Posavec. She tells us that she actually doesn’t code and that she draws a lot more than most other data designers.
Stephanie Posavec – the noncoding data designer Read More »