Category: Health and Science

Comments New Scientist Visualizes Breaking News from Ellie Fields - Aug. 7th 2011 Peter Aldhous of NewScientist Magazine is a true data journalist. He’s always thinking of ways to tell stories and help people understand the world around them by using data. In an interview, we asked Peter about why visualization is useful for his type of journalism. ... Category Health and Science Read more...	Comments Education Across the World by Ross Perez - Dec. 9th 2010 Every 3 years, the OECD conducts the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Administered in over 70 countries, it attempts to standardize hundreds of variables about education into a digestible ranking system. This year, Korea and Finland topped the charts in all categories. However, the most interesting finding to ... Category Health and Science Read more...
Comments Guest Post: The Joy of Stats on BBC4 from Andy Cotgreave - Dec. 6th 2010 Thanks to Andy Cotgreave for this post- you can see his other work at The Data Studio. On Tuesday 7 December, the BBC is broadcasting a show called The Joy of ... Category Health and Science Read more...	Comments Visualizing an Open Source Community by Ellie Fields - Oct. 21st 2010 What does an open source community look like? How many people contribute and what gets downloaded? Oliver Ratzesberger created some vizes to better understand the Joomla open source community on Kunena. His first viz shows that more than 700 users contributed to more ... Category Health and Science Read more...
Comments Global Hunger Index Improves, but Billions Remain Hungry by Ross Perez - Oct. 12th 2010 Hunger is still a daily concern for a large portion of the worlds population. This visualization shows how the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Category Health and Science Read more...	Comments Eating undercookeed foods may be hazardous to your health.... by Ross Perez - Sep. 13th 2010 So the menu says at many a trendy seafood restaurant. If you are as much of a sushi lover as I am, you most likely brush off the warning and get your favorite raw sea creature anyway. However, as you can see from the map below, which shows food borne illness outbreaks over ... Category Health and Science Read more...