newsmap -

“Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.

newsmap

very excelent chris.

“edward hann's "Internally displaced people 06" is an exploration in the theory of ‘designing for an ethical message’, using the uniformity and order of the grid, mixed with the natural topographical beauty of a landscape, to demonstrate the scale of humanitarian crisis in Western Darfur and Eastern Chad. Each print was screen printed by K2 Screen, on 240gsm GF Smith, Black Plike paper and is scaled at 720 by 1020mm.

holy shit!

Info overload.

I'd love a brief like that. Simply to test my tolerance and stamina

infothetics

In 2008, half of the world's population will be in urban areas. The shift from rural to urban changes a balance that has lasted for millennia. Within one generation, five billion people, or 60% of humanity, will live in cities. The urban population of Africa and Asia is set to double in this time.

PDF file of the info graphic

Guardian Article

It is amazing to me how many people are still breeding!

oooo. Nice. I really like that. Where's it from Chris?

bryanchristiedesign

large image here

Interesting. Reminds me of something else Ive seen. It was related to the fuel consumption thread as well. Each flags colour represented usage or something. Couldnt find it though

squapple:Interesting. Reminds me of something else Ive seen. It was related to the fuel consumption thread as well. Each flags colour represented usage or something. Couldnt find it though

might it have been that they worked out the ratio of colours on each flag, and utilised them for various 'clever' visuals of certain things. basically, stuff like the american flag, and they just added a legend to it stating something like -



United States
Red: In favor of the war in Iraq
White: Against the war in Iraq
Blue: Don't know where Iraq is

?

click image for more info

from smashing magazine's "data visualization - modern approaches" article

toy imports


toy exports


but really, there are loads more, and background in the article - check it out.

Very unusual imagery. Keep em coming Chris

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen - video from TED, interesting too, and interspersed with some infographics.

(lolz!)

Nice

Awesome links fellas

shit yeah !!!!!!!

Sorry, my bad

catalogtree

the most complicated infographic in the world, ever!

The Diploid Genome Sequence of J. Craig Venter



click here to open the interactive poster

the big infographic linky

visual complexity

( posted earlier in this thread )

just noticed (changed) that. there are a million more where that came from..

follow the link