At least 55 Syrians dislike death
I hadn’t seen this poll before, but it seems a YouGov Siraj internet poll has journalists from a range of otherwise respectable media…
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Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism
Along the same lines as what UN Global Pulse is all about, Paul Conneally (then of the International Federation of the Red Cross…
Which NGO’s Rule Social Media
Craig (the one of Craigslist) has a social good blog called craigconnects which is definitely worth a read. The other day he posted…
Republican Candidates’ Topics
Periscopic has a pretty great visualization of the Republican Candidates’ topics during the debates. Obviously there were a lot of interesting topics during…
Stephanie Posavec – the noncoding data designer
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…
Best statistics question ever
Nathan Yau over at FlowingData is absolutely correct. This is the best statistics question ever. Right now, Nathan’s post has 721 comments. That’s…
The Global Food Crisis Mapped
As part of their Grow campaign, Oxfam have just released the map below, which shows the “Food price pressure points”. When looking closer, you can also see…
Hans Rosling and Augmented Reality
“I kid you not, statistics is now the sexiest subject on the planet” Hans Rosling. Hans Rosling, known by many from his TED Talks,…