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Data-Visualization: OpenStreetMap London Progress
You might have heard about the “OpenStreetMap” project that creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to everyone. What most users of mapping software and services don’t know - there are often license or technical restrictions how you can use data and maps available commercially or by other providers. That’s what OpenStreetMap is trying to overcome.
Particularly with mapping data from the UK, where the government agency in charge…
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Pictures of the evolution of space debris
With only 800 of the once launched 6000 satellites still being operational, the pile of space debris is becoming an ever-increasing amount of inactive space hardware orbiting around the Earth.
50% of the mess that besides old satellites also includes broken…
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Environment: Twenty-First Century Waterfall
This computer animation by Doug James from Cornell was made to raise awareness about poor recycling rates of water bottles in the US.
From the estimated 30 billion plastic water bottles purchased in 2005, only about 12% got recycled. The remaining 25 billion bottles were either landfilled or littered.
The animation shows us how…
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Environment: MTV 3650
A short film for “MTV Switch” to help raise the awareness of global warming effects. The film combines live action and animation with toy-like clouds, cars, planes moving around a globe. Cities and traffic grows until the whole globe is over-run and choked by cities and pollution filled clouds.
According to the movie there are only about 10 years (3650 days) left until the pollution will…
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Design: Create a bowl from a topographic map
Austrian Design shop FluidForms that offers individualized designs now also provides a service to create wooden bowls based on topographic maps.
To create your own bowl - for your home location or a place you like - go to their web site and in 3 quick steps you will have the design finished and can preview it in an interactive 3D viewer.
You just select the location you want by entering…
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Advertising: Red Cross compassion campaign
A simple and straight-forward but very powerful ad campaign for the International Red Cross / Red Crescent.
Three key humanitarian values and emotions - awareness, compassion and tolerance - are characterized as typical commodity containers used within todays “Aid work…”
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Data Visualization: Impact of the Subprime Crisis
We always love the data visualizations from the New York Times. Their designers are really doing an outstanding job.
Yesterday they have published another great one on a topic that is very hard to visualize - a graphic showing how regions throughout the United States are hit differently by the Subprime Mortgage crisis and the level of foreclosures resulting from that.
More information and the full size graphics at the “New York Times”.
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World: The price of beer in 128 countries
How much will it cost you to shout out “Mine’s a pint!” in pubs around the globe? Well, a new online database of beer prices in 128 countries will provide the answer.
With the price of a pint of beer being a similar economic indicator as the BigMac index, there might be more to it then just finding the best watering hole. Pint Price - as the database is called - provides the most data in beer drinking countries like the UK (more than 50 cities listed), US (more than 20 cities) or Germany (4 cities list) but also more exotic destinations like…
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Shopping: Bear Stearns Memorabilia at Ebay
After the whole company went for a fire sales price to competitor J.P. Morgan many of the Bear Stearns employees that now fear loosing their jobs have started to part themselves from their valued memorabilia of the once highly reputable Wall Street firm.
When you search…
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Recession: The Movie
The trailer for the latest movie from the producers of “The Iraq War”. Now playing at a theater near you.
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