✳UrbanSensing | listening to the digital city The Hollywood In$ider Explore data on over 1200 major Hollywood films of the last ten years. Click on the axis labels to view other data. View each year by itself. Or every single year at once. N.B. 250% of budget is considered the breakeven for Hollywood films due to the high costs of marketing (sometimes as much as twice the budget). Concept & Design: David McCandless // Research: Stephanie Smith, Ella Hollowood, Pearl Doughty-White // Code: Tom Evans, Paul Barton, Neil Muralee. » See the data for even more detail. » Sign up to be notified when we update this graphic. » Check out our beautiful books » Learn to be a dataviz ninja: Workshops are Beautiful
United Nations report: Internet access is a human right Internet access is a human right, according to a United Nations report released on Friday. "Given that the Internet has become an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights, combating inequality, and accelerating development and human progress, ensuring universal access to the Internet should be a priority for all states," said the report from Frank La Rue, a special rapporteur to the United Nations, who wrote the document "on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression." La Rue said in his report that access to the Internet is particularly important during times of political unrest, as demonstrated by the recent "Arab Spring" uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, among other countries. From the report: DOCUMENT: Read the United Nations report La Rue also urges governments to eschew laws that allow for people's access to the Internet to be blocked. Israeli newborn named 'Like' in tribute to Facebook -- Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Where We Came From, State by State Foreign immigration is a hot topic these days, but the movement of people from one state to another can have an even bigger influence on the United States’ economy, politics and culture. Americans have already seen this with the Western expansion, the movement of Southern blacks to Northern cities and the migration from the Rust Belt. The patterns of migration continue to change. California, shown above, has long been the destination of American dreamers from other states. It no longer plays that role; residents are leaving for greener pastures out East. Today, the state is still pulling in foreign immigrants, but the percentage of American-born transplants has shrunk significantly as more people leave the state. States in the South that have traditionally been dominated by people who were born there are seeing significant in-migration for the first time. The following charts document domestic migration since the turn of the last century, based on census data.
§ Section Design Paperscape About Paperscape Paperscape is an interactive map that visualises the arXiv, an open, online repository for scientific research papers. Each paper is represented by a circle, with the size of a circle related to how often that paper has been cited (referred to) - a measure of its impact. The papers are clustered together according to how they reference each other i.e. share information. Created by Damien George and Rob Knegjens. Think Again: War - By Joshua S. Goldstein "The World Is a More Violent Place Than It Used to Be." No way. The early 21st century seems awash in wars: the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, street battles in Somalia, Islamist insurgencies in Pakistan, massacres in the Congo, genocidal campaigns in Sudan. All in all, regular fighting is taking place in 18 wars around the globe today. So far they haven't even been close. Armed conflict has declined in large part because armed conflict has fundamentally changed. If the world feels like a more violent place than it actually is, that's because there's more information about wars -- not more wars themselves. Getty Images "America Is Fighting More Wars Than Ever." Yes and no. But though the conflicts of the post-9/11 era may be longer than those of past generations, they are also far smaller and less lethal. And the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan has taken place against a backdrop of base closures and personnel drawdowns elsewhere in the world. Hardly. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
Jobs Charted by State and Salary The industries that people work in can say a lot about an area. Is there a lot of farming? Is there a big technology market? Couple the jobs that people work with salary, and you also see where the money's at. You see a state's priorities. For example, look at California. For a drastic change, switch to Washington, D.C., where people who work in the legal and business sectors are much more common. Move the median salary up a bit, and you get a sense of overall salaries (and a correlating cost of living, kind of) as you check out different states. Anyway, it's an interesting first look at employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Les 50 plus beaux graphiques de visualisation de données ! - graphisme Ces dernières années le Web a vu émerger de nouvelles tendances sur la visualisation et la gestion graphique des données. On sait que sur la toile, une multitude d'informations circulent, entre statistiques et arts visuels découvrez notre sélection des p Studyscape Patrick Vuarnoz Suitmen Life Map par ritwikdey Web Trend Map v4.0 par Information Architects Killer Earth par Andrew Blauvelt Visualization of iTunes Libraries par Caleb Larsen Chart Arcs par Martin Dittus par Peter Crnokrak Netdisco Max Baker Networkism par Tatiana Plakhova Mo Money Mo Problems par Nick Hardeman Twingly Screensaver Time Magazine par Joe Lertola DriftNet par Norimichi Hirakawa Glocal par Jer Thorp Visualizing The Bible par Chris Harrison Barcode Plantage par Daniel A. Fyre par David Trowbridge, Micah Dowty Disarticulate par Ben Fry Visual Poetry par Boris Muller MSN History Visualization par MSN History Visualization flowerGarden par Greg Judelman, Maria Lantin Maeve insatallation par University of Applied Sciences Potsdam AmoebaAbstracts 1-3 Gcrawler
Paperscape UNESCO The flag of UNESCO. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (French: Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture; UNESCO; /juːˈnɛskoʊ/) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN). UNESCO has 195 member states[2] and nine associate members.[3][4] Most of the field offices are "cluster" offices covering three or more countries; there are also national and regional offices. UNESCO pursue its objectives through five major programs: education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information. UNESCO's aim is "to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information".[6] History[edit] The first General Conference took place from 19 November to 10 December 1946, and elected Dr. Activities[edit] UNESCO does not accredit institutions of higher learning.[42]
Urban Population Map Close Source United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Population Division special updated estimates of urban population as of October 2011, consistent with World Population Prospects: The 2010 revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2009 revision. Graphic presentation of data based on The Guardian, 27 July 2007. This map is stylized and based on an approximate scale. It does not reflect a position by UNICEF on the legal status of any country or territory or the delimitation of any frontiers. Notes Because of the cession in July 2011 of the Republic of South Sudan by the Republic of the Sudan, and its subsequent admission to the United Nations on 14 July 2011, data for the Sudan and South Sudan as separate States are not yet available. Data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao, Special Administrative Regions of China. Data for France do not include French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte and Reunion.
Data Visualization Katharine Morgan Tech blogs. They don’t agree on much. Apple Fanboys, Android Fanboys, Playstation Fanboys, Xbox Fanboys… the web is awash with people flaming each other about their choice of technology. In many parts of the world however, ol’ IE is very much alive and kicking and some of the reasons why are nearly as surprising. Globally however, the big reason is staying power of Windows XP and its default browser – Internet Explorer. MyToshiba have recently compiled this browser share overview as part of their Leading Innovations series to show the disparity in browser share globally.
OWL - Semantic Web Standards Overview The W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things. OWL is a computational logic-based language such that knowledge expressed in OWL can be exploited by computer programs, e.g., to verify the consistency of that knowledge or to make implicit knowledge explicit. OWL documents, known as ontologies, can be published in the World Wide Web and may refer to or be referred from other OWL ontologies. OWL is part of the W3C’s Semantic Web technology stack, which includes RDF, RDFS, SPARQL, etc. The current version of OWL, also referred to as “OWL 2”, was developed by the [W3C OWL Working Group] (now closed) and published in 2009, with a Second Edition published in 2012. Recommended Reading These documents are, however, all rather technical and mainly aimed at OWL 2 implementers and tool developers. Last modified and/or added All relevant tools