Recession. Oil. American English Dialects. North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns Small-Scale Dialect Map The small map below is the same as the Full-Scale Dialect Map that follows, but shows the entire width of the map (on most monitors). 24-Aug.-2010 Click on any part of this map to move to the equivalent part of the Full-Scale Dialect Map. (For now this only moves to the far left or the far right of the Full-Scale Dialect Map, so unfortunately it doesn’t work well for the middle portions, and you will just have to scroll over.) 24-Aug.-2010 Full-Scale Dialect Map Instructions For many of the cities or towns on this map, you can listen to an audio or video sample of speech of a native (more specifically, someone who was raised there, though not necessarily born there, and whose dialect clearly represents that place).
The cities and towns with a large dot are those which are larger or more important in each state or province. Help! Data from the Atlas of North American English (ANAE) Map Notes Other Sources. A seance with Errol Morris - Roger Ebert's Journal. • Toronto Report #5 It's little wonder Errol Morris and Werner Herzog are good friends. They have this in common: They make strange, brilliant films, and they have strange, brilliant minds. I've never had the pleasure of observing either one at those "round tables" they convene at film festivals to give a dozen critics the experience of sitting for a dozen minutes at the same table with a great person, and the opportunity to judge the great person's ability to generate sound bites. I don't even know if Errol does round tables to promote his films.
But if he does, I'm pretty sure he would take the entire twelve minutes to answer the first question. That's not to say he's a bore. Anything but. Errol and Michael Barker at Ebertfest 2004 I find Morris's new film "Tabloid" to be one of his best and most intriguing. Faithful readers will know I consider "Gates of Heaven" (1978) to be one of the greatest films. Errol and Werner Herzog at Ebertfest 2004 Why do you think she spoke with you?
Transparency: Auditing the World Bank - Business. The next 25 years in emerging tech, an infographic | Beyond The Beyond. 2b2k] Public data and metadata, Google style. Posted on:: February 20th, 2011 I’m finding Google Lab’s Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL) pretty fascinating. Upload a set of data, and it will do some semi-spiffy visualizations of it.
(As Apryl DeLancey points out, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas now work for Google, so if they’re working on this project, the visualizations are going to get much better.) More important, the data you upload is now publicly available. And, more important than that, the site wants you to upload your data in Google’s DSPL format. So, let’s say you have spreadsheets of “statistical time series for unemployment and population by country, and population by gender for US states.” You would supply a set of concepts (“population”), each with a unique ID (“pop”), a data type (“integer”), and explanatory information (“name=population”, “definition=the number of human beings in a geographic area”). Overall, I think this is a good thing. Overall, I think it’s a good step forward. 10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010.
490 - Map of the World's Countries Rearranged by Population | Strange Maps. By Frank Jacobs What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on? The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map. In the world described by it, the differences in population density between countries would be less extreme than they are today. The world's most densely populated country currently is Monaco, with 43,830 inhabitants/mi² (16,923 per km²) (1). On the other end of the scale is Mongolia, which is less densely populated by a factor of almost exactly 10,000, with a mere 4.4 inhabitants/mi² (1.7 per km²).
The averages per country would more closely resemble the global average of 34 per mi² (13 per km²). Take the world's largest country: Russia. Strangely enough, the US itself would not have to swap its population with another country. . (3) Niger, not to be confused with nearby Nigeria. Our Scary Employment Situation, in One Chart - Business. Journalism in the Age of Data, a Visually Stunning Documentary - Media. What Can We Give to Teachers to Make Them Better Teachers? - Education. See Which American Cities Are Racially Integrated - Cities. A fellow named Eric Fischer has created fascinating maps that show the extent to which different American cities are, or are not, racially integrated. Each dot in these maps represents 25 people. The dots are color-coded based on race: White is pink; Black is blue; Hispanic is orange, and Asian is green.
The example above is the infamously segregated Detroit, with a dramatic separation between black and white. Here's San Francisco. Along with being generally more integrated, it also has many more Asians, as evidenced by all the green. Here's New York, where the incredible density of the city is the most salient feature: And here's Los Angeles, characterized by a large Latino population: Here's an interesting question: What do we, as a society, want to see in maps like this? The data for these maps comes from the 2000 census. See Which Companies Give Money to Which Political Party - Politics. The Good Guide (no affiliation) put together an interesting interactive tool that shows you the political leanings, in terms of amount of money contributed, of many familiar companies, from Amway to Chanel to Google.
There are a few surprises: Heinz donates more to Republicans, for example, and Whole Foods splits its money pretty evenly between Republicans and Democrats. One nice feature of the tool is that it allows you to sort by sector. Food and beverage companies tend to contribute more money to Republican candidates. I'm guessing this is because they want to protect certain food subsidies and resist things like tighter health regulations or transparency requirements. Those are aims they probably think Republicans will help advance. Media companies, on the other hand, tend to donate more to Democrats. Want to see where Ford or Miller or Revlon fall? Leading edge presentation. The presentation of. Visualizing visualizations. 13 Fantastically Fun & Frightening Eco-Infographics. Nothing puts the imminent threat of rising seas or the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into perspective quite like an effective information graphic.
Infographics make complex data or information much more accessible, which definitely comes in handy when you’re trying to make sense of things like the half-formed arguments of global warming skeptics. Some of these great eco-infographics are scary, others are hopeful or humorous, but they’re all really effective. Click on each image to view details in the larger version. When Sea Levels Attack (image via: The Guardian) At the current predicted rate of rising seas, when will each city in the world go under? A Core Set of Environmental Indicators (image via: cool infographics) We’ve known for a while now that something needs to be done about serious environmental issues like threatened species, drinking water and CO2 emissions – but have these issues really gotten any better?
The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity (image via: good.is) Urban Cartography. There are some interesting links I've stumbled upon recently (a round-up of which is forthcoming), one worth some exploration is a site entitled Urban Cartography. The posts simply show collected imagery of a variety of informatics and other interesting mashups of data from around the globe. Not mapping in the traditional sense, these densely woven graphics provide some great inspiration for representation in ways that would make Edward Tufte proud (or sometimes cringe). :: images via Urban CartographyWhile many are specific and data-specific, including plans and architectural graphics, others delve into mapping the more whimsical.
My favorite to day is the 'Mega Shark' which in our age of gigantism will soon pose imminent threats in such mundane activities as air travel. :: images via Urban Cartography. Which Nation Showed the Most Restraint During the Global Economic Meltdown? - GOOD Blog. Marumushi.com | hello. Eight cool social media infographics | Blog. Yesterday I noticed quite cool infographic being passed around online. Made by the guys at Trendstream, it maps social media access and involvement around the world. I love infographics. I think they’re a smart, creative way of displaying data in a way that’s easy to understand and is engaging. I’ve also noticed that they seem to be becoming more common, permeating not only technical subjects, where they seem to have originated from, but other areas, such as mainstream media, design and of course, the internet.
So, inspired by the newest of social media infographics, I thought it might be useful to collect some of the better examples in one place as a source of inspiration and information. Links to the actual graphics are in the headline titles. The World Map of Social Networks Building a Company with Social Media Facebook vs. Map of Online Communities (2007) The Life Cycle of a Blog The Conversation Prism Gender Balance on Social Networking Sites. Datablog Advent calendar. Protovis. Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots.
Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB). The Protovis team is now developing a new visualization library, D3.js, with improved support for animation and interaction.
D3 builds on many of the concepts in Protovis; for more details, please read the introduction and browse the examples. Updates May 28, 2010 - ZOMG! Getting Started. 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2009 | FlowingData. It was a huge year for data. There's no denying it. Data is about to explode. Applications sprung up left and right that help you understand your data - your Web traffic, your finances, and your life. There are now online marketplaces that sell data as files or via API. Data.gov launched to provide the public with usable, machine-readable data on a national scale. State and local governments followed, and data availability expands every day. At the same time, there are now tons of tools that you can use to visualize your data. It's exciting times for data, indeed. Data has been declared sexy, and the rise of the data scientist is here. With all the new projects this year, it was hard to filter down to the best, but here they are: two honorable mentions and the five best data visualization projects of 2009.
Honorable Mention: MTV VMA Tweet Tracker The MTV VMA Tweet Tracker, a glorified bubble chart from Stamen Design and Radian6, showed the buzz on Twitter over the MTV VMAs. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Information goes out to play. Serious information used to be relayed in words, graphs and charts - pictures were just pretty window dressing. That's all changing, says David McCandless. E-mails. News. Facebook. Wikipedia. Do you ever feel there's just too much information? In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging that could help us cope with the oceans of data surrounding and swamping us. The approach is simple: apply the rules of visual design to information - make information into images, rather than text. So, instead of listing the mind-boggling billions spent by governments, show them graphically - like The Billion Dollar O Gram image at the top of the page.
The image arose out of a frustration with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the media. Or, in another example, instead of explaining the connection between say, mercury and the influenza jab, depict it visually. SOURCE: David McCandless I don't just mean data and statistics. I love information. But this is not a new subject. Envisioning Development: What is Affordable Housing? Many Eyes.