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A group of linguists are gathering data on North American English dialects using a web-based survey. As of June, 2011, they had about 2500 responses but would like a few thousand more.
American English Dialects
Developing countries around the world depend on assistance from the World Bank to help support their often fragile economies. We have highlighted the regional recipients and respective outlays, as well as the nine largest donor countries contributing to the Fund's efforts to fight poverty around the globe.
Transparency: Auditing the World Bank - Business - GOOD
Joho the Blog » [2b2k] Public data and metadata, Google style
Upload a set of data, and it will do some semi- spiffy visualizations of it.
10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010
Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects popping up all over the place. Some were good, and a lot were not so good. More than anything, I noticed a huge wave of big infographics this year.
490 - Map of the World's Countries Rearranged by Population | Strange Maps | Big Think
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.
Our Scary Employment Situation, in One Chart - Business - GOOD
The Washington Post has a fantastic interactive piece that illustrates why this recession feels interminable (and why it may be). The nation’s economic woes boil down to this.
What Can We Give to Teachers to Make Them Better Teachers? - Education - GOOD
Being a teacher can be difficult: low pay, long hours, and the many challenges students bring into the classroom.A fellow named Eric Fischer has created fascinating maps that show the extent to which different American cities are, or are not, racially integrated.
See Which American Cities Are Racially Integrated - Cities - GOOD
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.
See Which Companies Give Money to Which Political Party - Politics - GOOD
Leading edge presentation.