Breathingearth - Births / Deaths live data feed. Public Data Explorer. Breakups from Facebook. The beauty of data visualization - David McCandless. To create his infographic about nutritional supplements, it took McCandless a month to review about 1,000 medical studies and design the visual.
Is that level of effort surprising, and do you think it’s worth it? Try out the interactive version that’s available on McCandless’s website. What engaged or surprised you? Hans Rosling - GapMinder. Rosling is a passionate advocate for “liberating” publicly-funded data on the Internet.
Select one topic area for which country-specific data might be compared (e.g., education, health, food production, the environment, etc.), and identify what you think are the best sources of data in this area on the Internet. Create a guide that lists these sources, and provides a brief review of each.