(EN) New York Times published a series of interactive infographics about personal debt in the world. Read, click and explore. (IT) Il New York Times ha raggruppato una serie di infografiche che esplorano la questione del debito personale nel mondo cercando di capire a cosa o a chi attribuire delle responsabilità. Leggi, clicca ed esplora.
Thanx for choosing earth as your planetary vehicle / Grazie di aver scelto la terra come tuo veicolo planetario
BlueMan Group, “Hearth to Umanity” performance
I love Science Kid / Adoro Science Kid
Sing! Canta! I Love Charts I like checking out charts ’cause a chart’s cool. A chart is a handy dandy scientific tool. It gives you information you can see with your eyes. A chart makes you visualize. You get the picture, so do I. May I please call your attention to this weather chart, I tell you this chart is a work of art. I see clouds on Friday, and rain on Monday, and good there’s gonna be sun on Sunday. I like checking out charts ’cause a chart’s cool. A chart is a handy dandy scientific tool. It gives you information you can see with your eyes. A chart makes you visualize. You get the picture, so do I. How many kids like a dog or a cat? Who wears a hoodie and who wears a hat? Making a chart of what people eat? Some charts look like a pie and you know that’s sweet. I like checking out
Cartograms map the real world/ I cartogrammi mappano il mondo reale
(EN) What happens when a thematic mapping variable is substituted for land area? You have the great collaborative work of the people behind Worldmapper: they developed an algorithm that allows you to see the world and the various sizes of the country therein, through various statistics. The results are comparable maps (cartograms) whose geometry or space is distorted in order to convey the information of a chosen variable. I’m talking about this project today because they’ve just published a book called The Atlas of the Real World with 366 cartograms providing a useful reference on how regions and countries compare in resources, production, consumption, and many other topics. ———— (IT) Cosa succede quando una variabile tematica va a sostituire il numero che determina la superficie di un paese in una mappa? Si crea un progetto collaborativo tra geografi, matematici e statistici, di cui non potremmo più fare a meno: Worldmapper. Insieme hanno creato un algoritmo che permette la creazione di
read more Cartograms map the real world/ I cartogrammi mappano il mondo reale
Obesity factors/ I numerosi fattori dell’obesità
(EN) Obesity is spreading all over the world. UK is trying to understand what are the causes of this epidemic, funding a project that transformed 38 science reviewes in an interactive diagram with 108 variables to understand the wide range of different factors that influence levels of obesity. “Behind the simple result of people becoming heavier, lies a complex web of often reinforcing causal factors that range from individual psychology and physiology to the culture and economics of food production, food consumption, attitudes toward physical activity, and structure of the built environment.” Explore the project’s results and the map ————– (IT) L’obesità si sta diffondendo in tutto il mondo. In UK stanno cercando di capire come affrontare il problema finanziando un progetto che ha portato alla realizzazione di una mappa interattiva che permette di esplorare i 108 fattori diversi che causano l’obesità individuati da 38 studi scientifici. “Dietro il semplice risultato che vede le persone diventare più pesanti, si nasconde
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