Interactive: National carbon calculator - can you cut UK emissions? | Environment Turn autoplay off Turn autoplay on Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Edition: About us Today's paper Subscribe National carbon calculator: Can you cut UK emissions? Play UK prime minister and set the policy on energy, transport and other sectors and measure the carbon emissions generated Mairead O'Connor, Danny Chivers, Cai Ellis, Duncan Clark, Rosie Roche, Tom Grinsted theguardian.com, Wednesday 21 April 2010 06.15 BST Send to a friend Your IP address will be logged Share Short link for this page: Contact us Meet the Environment team Report errors or inaccuracies: userhelp@theguardian.com Letters for publication should be sent to: guardian.letters@theguardian.com Sorry, but our interactive content currently requires Flash Hot topics © 2016 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
Le metropoli delle mafie Comparing US states with countries: US equivalents Which countries match the GDP and population of America's states? IT HAS long been true that California on its own would rank as one of the biggest economies of the world. These days, it would rank eighth, falling between Italy and Brazil on a nominal exchange-rate basis. But how do other American states compare with other countries? Taking the nearest equivalent country from 2009 data reveals some surprises. Who would have thought that, despite years of auto-industry hardship, the economy of Michigan is still the same size as Taiwan's? Also see our other "country equivalents" interactive maps:Indian states and territories as countriesChinese provinces as countriesBrazilian states as countries
Public Data Sets : Amazon Web Services A corpus of web crawl data composed of over 5 billion web pages. This data set is freely available on Amazon S3 and is released under the Common Crawl Terms of Use. Last Modified: Mar 17, 2014 17:51 PM GMT Three NASA NEX datasets are now available, including climate projections and satellite images of Earth. Last Modified: Nov 12, 2013 13:27 PM GMT The Ensembl project produces genome databases for human as well as over 50 other species, and makes this information freely available. Last Modified: Oct 8, 2013 14:38 PM GMT Last Modified: Oct 8, 2013 14:37 PM GMT Human Microbiome Project Data Set Last Modified: Sep 26, 2013 17:58 PM GMT The 1000 Genomes Project, initiated in 2008, is an international public-private consortium that aims to build the most detailed map of human genetic variation available. Last Modified: Jul 18, 2012 16:34 PM GMT Last Modified: Apr 24, 2012 21:18 PM GMT Last Modified: Mar 4, 2012 3:22 AM GMT Last Modified: Feb 15, 2012 2:22 AM GMT Last Modified: Jan 21, 2012 2:12 AM GMT
Conjoncture : La course vers la reprise économique INFOGRAPHIE - A l'aube de 2011, où en sont les pays développés ? Dans quel état sont-ils sortis de la récession? Qui en profitera le mieux ces prochaines années ? Comparez les performances des pays depuis 2007 grâce à notre animation interactive. Dans la course vers la reprise, les pays ne courent pas au même rythme. Les bulles qui représentent chaque pays gonflent ou dégonflent en fonction du poids de la dette. Certains pays, comme la France, ont mieux résisté durant la crise grâce à des mécanismes surnommés «stabilisateurs automatiques» par les économistes. D'autres économies ont été touchées plus brutalement, comme en Allemagne. L'Irlande, enfin, connaissait des taux de croissance stratosphériques avant crise. » 2011, l'année des grands écarts de croissance » Cinq raisons de s'inquiéter, une d'espérer en 2011 » Europe: les États face à la faillite
Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists, citizens Data nerds from government and academia gathered Friday at Northeastern University to show off the latest version of Weave, an open-source, web-based platform designed to visualize “any available data by anyone for any purpose.” The software has a lot of potential for journalists. Weave is supported by the Open Indicators Consortium, an unusual partnership of planning agencies and universities who wanted better tools to inform public policy and community decision-making. The groups organized and agreed to share data and code in 2008, well before Gov 2.0 was hot. Think of Weave as more programming language than app. Data is linked, which means you can view the same datapoint from many angles. The software reminds me of SPSS, from my college poli sci days. Georges Grinstein, a professor of computer science at UMass Lowell, develops Weave with a team of some 20 students.
An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. - By Chris Wilson The economic crisis, which has claimed more than 5 million jobs since the recession began, did not strike the entire country at once. A map of employment gains or losses by county tells the story of how those job losses first struck in the most vulnerable regions and then spread rapidly to the rest of the country. As early as August 2007, for example—several months before the recession officially began—jobs were already on the decline in southwest Florida; Orange County, Calif.; much of New Jersey; and Detroit, while other areas of the country remained on the uptick. Using the Labor Department’s local area unemployment statistics, Slate presents the recession as told by unemployment numbers for each county in America. Because the data are not seasonally adjusted for natural employment cycles throughout the year, the numbers you see show the change in the number of people employed compared with the same month in the previous year.
POLITICA DEI SERVIZI SOCIALI Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements See the data: bit.ly/snakeoilsupps. See the static versionSee the old flash version Check the evidence for so-called Superfoods visualized. Note: You might see multiple bubbles for certain supplements. These is because some supps affect a range of conditions, but the evidence quality varies from condition to condition. For example, there’s strong evidence that garlic can lower blood pressure. This visualisation generates itself from this Google Doc. As ever, we welcome your thoughts, crits, comments, corrections, compliments, tweaks, new evidence, missing supps, and general feedback. » Purchase: Amazon US or Barnes & Noble | UK or Waterstones » Download: Apple iBook | Kindle (UK & US) » See inside For more graphics, visualisations and data-journalism:
30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web Finding an interesting data set and a story it tells can be the most difficult part of producing an infographic or data visualization. Data visualization is the end artifact, but it involves multiple steps – finding reliable data, getting the data in the right format, cleaning it up (an often underestimated step in the amount of time it takes!) and then finding the story you will eventually visualize. Following is a list useful resources for finding data. Your needs will vary from one project to another, but this list is a great place to start — and bookmark. 1. Data.gov: This is the go-to resource for government-related data. 2. These are the places that house data from all kinds of sources. 3. Usually, the best place to get social data for an API is the site itself: Instagram, GetGlue, Foursquare, pretty much all social media sites have their own API’s. 4. Wunderground has detailed weather information and also let’s you search historical data by zip code or city. 5. 6. 7.
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