Archive for the ‘dataviz’ Category

Word as Image

Posted in dataviz on 10/13/2011 11:21 pm by

Challenge: Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself.

 

A Century of Meat

Posted in dataviz, life on 03/20/2011 11:04 pm by

 

If it were my home

Posted in dataviz on 01/21/2011 10:22 am by

Um site interessante para comparar dados estatisticos entre vários países, aos pares. Por exemplo: Portugal vs UK e Portugal vs Brasil. (thanx Bruno!)

 

Who’s suing who?

Posted in dataviz, life on 11/01/2010 11:20 pm by

There’s a jungle out there!

source

 

World Map of Social Networks

Posted in dataviz on 10/08/2009 09:34 pm by

Algumas ideias soltas:

  • Domínio global do facebook;
  • Portugal é o refúgio europeu do hi5;
  • Brasil e Índia com Orkut;
  • China tem a sua própria rede;
  • Rússia e outros países da ex-URSS partilham uma rede;
  • Mais de metade de África nem sequer aparece no mapa…

wmsn-06-09

 

Infographics about the Web

Posted in dataviz, webdev on 09/22/2009 10:44 pm by

In this article, you’ll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or two about the web by looking at these awesome artworks!

26-01_web_trend_map

 

World Mapper: A different perspective

Posted in dataviz, life on 11/02/2008 08:36 pm by

A few days ago, I received an email with this website (thx Isabel), with the tag line: “The world as you’ve never seen it before”:

http://www.worldmapper.org/

World Poverty

This site has a huge database with maps, correlating several indicators, population density and countries dimensions. It reminded me a brilliant talk by Hans Roling on TED. It’s hard to understand the huge gap between the countries in many indicators. The question is: what can you do to change the situation?