Datavisualization

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General

Hans Rosling, creator of Gapminder.org, a fantastic tool, introduced at TED , a later talk on global population growth TEDtalk and more videos. ****

Many Eyes gallery.

Good Transparency

Visualizing.org many green topics, searchable ***.

Tree of Life species map.

Science Maps.

Simon Shum at Open University in the UK creates amazing tools.

Graphiz gallery. Open source software.

Visual Complexity.

Information is Beautiful.

Fathom does brilliant design on various topics.

Infographic of the day.

Fun cautionary tales on how graphs can be misleading.

Your place in the universe.

Nitrogen cycle. To Save Our Ecosystems, Stop Overloading Them Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.

Video

Hans Rosling on global population growth. ****

Welcome to the anthrocene (video)

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization TEDtalk

Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a human context. At TEDxVancouver, he shares his moving projects, from graphing an entire year’s news cycle, to mapping the way people share articles across the Internet. (video) 3/12

Eric Berlow (TEDtalk video).

Drew Berry shows his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells. (TEDtalk video).

Earth at night more NASA Earth from space (video).

Specific Topics

Science of the future: A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021.

Start-up phases for entrepreneurs.

How Much is Left (resources) infographic.

Money (no kidding!) including breakdowns such as of electricity.

How the top .01% spend their money (political donations). See also "Dark matter" of political money.

"The State of Working America" by the Economic Policy Institute.

Food webs

US waste facilities.

Man vs Shark

Fish.

Chemicals in your home.

E-waste infographic.

== Energy == (See also Energy)

Various examples

Subsidies

America's Energy, Where It's From and How It's Used

Our Energy Dilemma in Three easy Charts.

U.S. map showing installations of non-hydro renewable energy in 1970 compared to today.

Worst oil spills in history.

US Fracking map.

Keystone XL Pipeline spill infographic.

== Food == (see also Food)

Agroecology versus Industrial Agriculture

World's biggest employers.

GMO's

Burgers Triple in size since 50's

Food infographics

Big Bad Corn.

Nitrogen cycle. To Save Our Ecosystems, Stop Overloading Them: Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.

How Walmart is Devouring the Food System (Infographic) also good on consolidation of food system by small number of companies).

== Global Warming == (see also Global Warming)

Great infographic sums it all up 3/13

Climate "debate" Infograpic: Which Makes More Sense?

Various examples

CO2

== Population == (see also Population)

Hans Rosling, creator of Gapminder.org, a fantastic tool, on global population growth TEDtalk videos.

Population Density and population vs age by Fathom.

several images including water and other resources. 6.12 See also bio-capacity

The Remotest Places on Earth

Ghost Counties

Care2 gives various kinds of eco and demographic info based on geography.

If the world's population lived in one city (different densities).

== Water == (see also Water)

Water

Water quality

examples

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