Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as countries fight to contain the pandemic | Free to read Unless otherwise stated below, the data used for cases and deaths in these charts comes from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering, and reflects the date that cases or deaths were recorded, rather than when they occurred. Data for the US, its individual states, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands is calculated from county-level data compiled by the Johns Hopkins CSSE. Data for the Cook Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, North Korea, Palau, Pitcairn, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna comes from the World Health Organization. Data for Sweden after April 5 2020, is calculated from the daily difference of cumulative figures published Tuesday through Fridays by the Swedish Public Health Agency. UK deaths and new cases data, and all data from that nations of the UK, comes from the UK Government coronavirus dashboard.
The Lives of 10 Famous Painters, Visualized as Minimalist Infographic Biographies By Maria Popova For their latest masterpiece, my friend Giorgia Lupi and her team at Accurat — who have previously given us such gems as a timeline of the future based on famous fiction, a visualization of global brain drain, and visual histories of the Nobel Prize and the 100 geniuses of language — have teamed up with illustrator Michela Buttignol to visualize the lives of ten famous painters, using the visual metaphors of painting and the specific stylistic preferences — shapes, colors, proportions — of each artist. Each visual biography depicts key biographical moments — births, deaths, love affairs, marriages, birth of children, travel — as well as notable and curious features like handedness (mostly righties, with the exception of Klee), astrological sign, and connections. For a closer look, click each image to view the full-size version: The visualizations are available as art prints on Society6.
What is data visualization and why is it important? Data visualization is the practice of translating information into a visual context, such as a map or graph, to make data easier for the human brain to understand and pull insights from. The main goal of data visualization is to make it easier to identify patterns, trends and outliers in large data sets. The term is often used interchangeably with others, including information graphics, information visualization and statistical graphics. Data visualization is one of the steps of the data science process, which states that after data has been collected, processed and modeled, it must be visualized for conclusions to be made. Data visualization is also an element of the broader data presentation architecture (DPA) discipline, which aims to identify, locate, manipulate, format and deliver data in the most efficient way possible. Data visualization is important for almost every career. Visualization is central to advanced analytics for similar reasons. Why is data visualization important?
Sfide plurali – oradireli Prof, ma che attinenza ha l’argomento della globalizzazione con l’ora di religione? Un articolo pepato di Stefania Friggeri dà alcune risposte (il pezzo è del 23 gennaio 2012: ciò spiega il riferimento a Ratzinger come papa). “La crisi di dimensioni planetarie che viviamo ci costringe a fare i conti col fenomeno della globalizzazione i cui aspetti tuttavia non investono solo il campo economico. Infatti, essendosi spezzato il legame che ieri teneva insieme, entro lo Stato nazionale, territorio popolo e religione (una fusione che si esprimeva sia attraverso la tradizione, le credenze e i riti, sia attraverso le istituzioni) anche le religioni hanno mutato volto. Mi piace: Mi piace Caricamento...
Esprit critique es-tu là ? – Le Cortecs Présentation du livret : Un outillage critique est nécessaire aussi bien pour analyser l’information ou distinguer les contenus scientifiques de contenus pseudoscientifiques que pour trier les thérapies, déceler les mensonges à visée commerciale ou de propagande, ou prévenir l’intrusion dans la méthode scientifique d’idéologies comme le racisme, le créationnisme ou l’Intelligent Design… L’outillage présenté par ce livret sera utile à l’étudiant, à l’enseignant ou au chercheur, mais aussi à tous ceux qui souhaitent pouvoir se faire des opinions en toute connaissance de cause en se méfiant des mésusages médiatiques de la science. Les « ateliers » d’esprit critique détaillés dans cet ouvrage ont été conçus et testés avec soin pour permettre de se frotter à l’analyse critique de façon concrète et amusante, mais aussi réellement constructive, en utilisant des supports ludiques, simples et motivants. Thème 1 Atelier 1 – Catalepsie et paralysie Montage de passages TV de Franck SYX – Candle Illusion
How six companies are using technology and data to transform themselves Video McKinsey senior partner Kate Smaje joins CEOs to discuss the acceleration of digitization. Special Report The next normal: The recovery will be digital This collection is the first of five edited volumes to accompany our multimedia series, airing on CNBC, focusing on the forces shaping the next normal. A study referenced in the popular magazine Psychology Today concluded that it takes an average of 66 days for a behavior to become automatic. Now, as leaders look ahead to the next year and beyond, they’re asking: How do we keep this momentum going? “The crisis has forced every company into a massive experiment in how to be more nimble, flexible, and fast.” That realization is coming not a moment too soon. Large incumbents who are winning the digital transformation battle get lots of things right. Digital speed. The companies you’re going to meet here are adopting and deploying these digital strategies and approaches at warp speed. — Kate Smaje, senior partner, McKinsey & Company All in
Data visualisation: how Alberto Cairo creates a functional art | News It's not enough for visualisations to string the correct numbers together, they should - in the words of William Morris - be beautiful and useful. And one of the leading experts in making data beautiful is Alberto Cairo - who teaches information graphics and visualisation at the University of Miami's School of Communication. His latest book, The Functional Art, is a comprehensive guide not only to how to do it; but how to get it right, too. It's worth checking out, even if producing charts is not your day job. Cairo is not a big fan of circles - and gives numerous reasons why: "you want readers to compare areas, but they tend to compare heights". It comes with a DVD - which is worth watching for an analysis of Guardian America's gay rights interactive. If you're interested in his work, you can find out more at Visualopolis and the site for his new book. Buy The Functional Art at the Guardian Bookshop NEW! • Facts are Sacred: the power of data (on Kindle) More open data World government data
The 25 Best Data Visualizations of 2020 [Examples] Data is beautiful – it can inspire, improve lives and bring out the best in people. To keep you inspired, we’ve gathered the best data visualizations of 2023. The chosen works cover a variety of topics from Covid-19 healthcare to environmental issue statistics and futuristic LIDAR data graphs. With over 4.54 billion people using the Internet in 2020, we’re sure to witness even more amazing data visualizations next year. But first, check out other top data visualizations in our previous collections from 2018 and 2019. 1 Visualizing the History of Pandemics The first project we have for you is an informative graphic named Visualizing the History of Pandemics by Nicholas LePan. While the exact number of victims of every disease is still under question, we can still learn from this graphic that super-spreading infections happened across all history of mankind. 2 It Fell From the Sky 3 Mars Mission 2024 Promo Reel Vivid, rich in details. 4 Void of the Memories 5 Plastic Waste Pollution 19 The U.S.
Globalizzazione e religioni – oradireli Un’intervista a Marta Margotti, autrice di “Religioni e secolarizzazioni. Ebraismo, cristianesimo e islam nel mondo globale”: l’ho presa da Vatican Insider. Professoressa Margotti nel suo libro emerge il concetto di globalizzazione della religione. Come interpretare oggi questa realtà? Non ci sono dubbi su questo aspetto: le religioni sono coinvolte potentemente nei processi di globalizzazione che stanno trasformando il mondo attuale. Anzi, a ben guardare, i fenomeni religiosi sono tra i fattori che alimentano costantemente i processi di integrazione planetaria degli stili di vita e delle identità individuali, ma favoriscono pure i contatti tra le culture, i mutamenti della vita politica e la definizione degli assetti economici. Quali sono le cause di questa “globalizzazione delle fedi”? Secolarizzazione e secolarismo: cosa rappresentano questi fenomeni nella società contemporanea? I grandi monoteismi hanno spesso avuto rapporti contrastati con i valori della laicità. Mi piace:
Maths au quotidien : L’art et la manière de mélanger un paquet de cartes Vous voilà réunis avec vos amis, par une chaude soirée d’été, pour une partie de poker. Vous ouvrez un paquet de 52 cartes tout neuf et vous le mélangez… Mais comment ? Et combien de temps ? Cette question (essentielle !) est au centre d’un pan important de recherche en mathématiques, dans le domaine des probabilités. Inutile de rechercher le mélange parfait si on veut jouer dans la soirée Lorsque le paquet est neuf, les cartes sont dans un ordre déterminé : si on les distribue telles quelles, tous les joueurs savent exactement quelles cartes ont été distribuées à qui. En mélangeant le paquet, on crée un ordre aléatoire des cartes. Pour une partie amicale, l’objectif n’est pas tant d’obtenir un mélange « parfait », mais un mélange « suffisamment bon » : si l’on mélange trop peu le paquet, un observateur avisé pourra reconnaître certaines successions de cartes (qui auront été mal mélangées) et s’en servir à son avantage. Le cœur du problème : comment mélanger un paquet de cartes
UNCTAD | Coronavirus (COVID-19) : News, Analysis and Resources The impact of COVID-19, including the closure of certain borders and the disruption of international travel and transport, has shown the risks of economic concentration in certain sectors and demonstrated the renewed importance of strengthening domestic value chains, ensuring food security and improving infrastructure. Investment guides produced by UNCTAD and the International Chamber of Commerce are designed to help governments build their capacity to attract foreign and local investment. They provide investors with essential information on policies, procedures and opportunities that are otherwise scattered across many different websites or outright not available. Being online and easily updatable, staff in investment promotion agencies are able to adapt the guides, while working from home, to refocus promotion efforts to key sectors such as agriculture, agro-processing, manufacturing and infrastructure as they seek to make their economies more resilient and stimulate job creation.
This site publishes high-touch, time-intensive data visualizations (and has a business that sustains it) Over 7,000 artists played in the New York City area in 2013. Only 21 of those later made it, really made it, headlining at a venue with an over 3,000-person capacity — among them, bigger names like Chance the Rapper, X Ambassadors, Sam Smith, and Sylvan Esso. I learned this sort of random but fascinating tidbit from a data visualization titled “The Unlikely Odds of Making it Big,” from the site The Pudding. The Pudding is the home to high-touch, painstakingly crafted data visualizations — what the site calls “visual essays” — that are distinct in their obsessive complexity over points of cultural curiosity. Most pieces stand wholly apart from the U.S. news cycle; no anxiety-inducing interactives around budget, taxes, health care. Want to see everywhere jazz legend Miles Davis is mentioned across Wikipedia, and how he’s connected to other people, recordings, and places? “We’re all over the map. Our story backlog is now totally open again.
一窺新興 Chatbot 應用的幕後故事：工程師的熱情是關鍵——專訪 BotBonnie CEO 曾與奧美攜手打造出「華康字型手寫信」的 Chatbot 活動，並在短短 3 天內、湧入 4.6 萬則留言，BotBonnie 團隊持續將 Chatbot 應用在行銷活動上、創造新鮮感。 透過彈性多元的流程設計，與奧迪、蝦皮與誠品等知名企業合作，開發出許多精彩的 Chatbot 行銷案例，外界也真正認識了 BotBonnie 以及聊天機器人應用的潛能。 BotBonnie 團隊如何與企業客戶合作？又觀察到聊天機器人市場發生了什麼樣的變化？如果你想一探新興的 Chatbot 應用，也好奇 BotBonnie 團隊的幕後故事，就一起來看看 BotBonnie CEO 兼共同創辦人 Roy 的精實分享吧！ 聊天機器人的崛起 2016 年， 臉書和 LINE 開放 API ，BotBonnie 便在此時看見新的機會點。 目前市面上的聊天機器人大約有 80% 還是以流程式（對話式）為主，也就是透過好幾個劇本、按鈕串接成一個完整的 Chatbot 活動，只有 20% 會透過 NLP （Natural Language Processing，自然語言處理）加強。 「有想過這個可能性，但實務上會遇到很多問題。」 而要做到一個讓用戶隨意輸入問題、還能完整回答的聊天機器人就不同了。 除了要有夠好的 NLP 技術，還要有龐大的資料，要是企業客戶端無法提供足夠的資料量，做出來的 Chatbot 也不會有好的效果，反而讓用戶覺得機器人很笨、不好用，這也是為什麼目前市場上的主流不是 NLP 機器人的原因。 從行銷到系統整合：Chatbot 的市場趨勢發生什麼變化？ 從創立到現在，BotBonnie 也觀察到 Chatbot 應用的趨勢開始轉變，「以往接到的行銷活動大概佔了業務量的 90％，但現在單純要做行銷的只佔 50％ 左右，」Roy 提到，現在 LINE 和 Messenger 的使用率和停留時間越來越長，企業開始希望能在 Chatbot 上提供服務，並和自家系統做整合，讓用戶在跟 Chatbot 的互動過程中，能夠抓出更多資料理解用戶行為。 「我自己也覺得這是一個發展的趨勢，」Roy 繼續說明， 「以往大家可能比較重視社群平台，但現在通訊類渠道的流量非常大，甚至可能超過企業自己的 App。」 只做 Chatbot 行銷還不夠！ 因應趨勢的變化，BotBonnie 也正在醞釀新的「粉絲忠誠計畫」。 想當個好工程師？