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Carbon map infographic: a new way to see the earth move
• Who made this graphic? Duncan Clark and Robin Houston
• Where can I find it? carbonmap.org
All part of our data team’s show and tell series.
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Infographics old and new: top data visualisations
A new book highlights the world of data visualisation. Here is our pic of some of the key infographics
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Would you take a mystery white powder without knowing what it was? Would you drive after taking drugs? And if you got stopped by police carrying drugs in the US, would they be discovered? This animation explains some of the key findings from the UK and the US of the Guardian/Mixmag Global Drug Survey of over 15,000 people. Where do you fit in?
(Source: Guardian)
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How the world of 1950 looked in 1925: infographic
Airships above you, cars below ground; clean pedestrianised streets, beautiful elegant high-rise living… how exotic the far-off year of 1950 must have seemed to readers of Popular Science Monthly in 1925, when the infographic below was published. Rediscovered by the wonderful Retronaut (Slogan: “the past is a foreign country. This is your passport”) it probably says more about 1925 than it does about 1950.
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The viral phenomenon of the Kony video has been exhaustively examined by Polly Curtis’ Reality Check - but Datablog user Charlie Morton has come up with this infographic about the charity behind the video, Invisible Children.
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Is your local Occupy protest still active?
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