Map O’ The Week: Media Scares’ Global Deaths
This week’s Map comes from the Information is Beautiful blog. In eye-catching, vivid hues, it shows the global deaths from the past decade’s media scare stories. Continue Reading →
This week’s Map comes from the Information is Beautiful blog. In eye-catching, vivid hues, it shows the global deaths from the past decade’s media scare stories. Continue Reading →
Wired.com recently published a great example of how information design can enhance our daily lives—even our health! Most medical test results are presented in a familiarly unimaginative report format, consisting of a page or more of Courier New. The format, combined with the dense medical jargon, is pretty difficult for the average person to interpret. Continue Reading →
Today’s MOTD is really cool and follows in the footsteps of some of our other subway map metaphors. Instead of focusing on movies or music, this one actually has a real purpose and maps the network inside the human body.
Created by Sam Loman, this map shows where in the human body the various transport systems reside. The lines represent veins and muscles and the circles or stations represent major organs and bones.
Today’s MOTDs are special not only because it is our 200th post but because it covers a topic that requires more awareness and action.
Submitted to me by a former colleague that now works with USAID, the 2010 UNAIDS Report (downloadable here) is full of powerful infographics reporting on the topic of AIDS and the subjects that contribute to the epidemic. The infographic above shows the breakup of men, women and children living with aids in sub-Saharan Africa and other marital demographics. The first infographic below is a matrix on government policies and actions pertaining to the AIDS epidemic. The last infographic shows the fiscal gaps between what is needed to combat the AIDS epidemic versus the size of the economy and government revenue.
There are many more infographics like these inside the report linked to above, so please download it and take a look at the other infographics, read an article or two and pass it along to a friend. If you are in a position to donate and would like to help this worthwhile cause, UNAIDS accepts donations @ http://www.unaids.org/en/Partnerships/Donors/donate_now.asp.
Today’s MOTD is very good knowledge for everyone that is reading this post right now. People are spending a lot more time in front of computers, without understanding the consequences of posture. Improper posture can lead to painful lasting injuries including carpal tunnel syndrome, shoulder and back pain, eyestrain and lumbar and lower back problems.
Designer Devon Morgan has made this exceptional infographic to help you improve you posture.
Another in our series of Forbes vintage infographics, today’s MOTD shows the way that our political predecessors classified health care and is a good comparison/contrast of the preventive concerns they were facing back then, as opposed to those we face today.
Today’s MOTD comes to us from Infonauts Map Blog, written by Sevaan Franks.
The graphic was created by www.gapminder.org, a ‘non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using Internet.’
I created todays map of the day from the 5 most recent maps provided at the World Health Organization’s web site. The descriptions of the scale of measurments are shown in the bottom right corner of each map, denoted by an *.
You can follow their latest disease and outbreak news including the H1N1 feed, here.
Todays MOTD comes to us from, www.actual-original.com and utilizes a gumball machine metaphor to depict the celebrities who have died and their cause of death from January 1st, 2009 to June 2009.
Today’s MOTD comes to us from the metrics section of the NY Times and writer Bill Marsh.
There a some very fun statistics on change in consumption at the bottom of the graphic. The top paragraph is very informative and i will let it speak for itself.
Todays MOTD, furthering our series ‘down with whiteboards’, is a chilling graphic not only in aesthetics but in the data that is represented. It was published in Mens Health magazine and was created by Julia Hoffman.
She really does a great job of blending the icons in with numbers, which helps move the reader through all of the information while providing explicit reference points for discussion.
Today’s MOTD is a proper comprehensive infographic about the H1N1 virus. This map is truly unique because designer, RAJ, used a black background and vibrant ‘pig’ pink to pull the reader through the map from left to right, while reinforcing the overall theme.
The excellent use of multi-variant data sets is not lost in the black either. There are examples of timelines, gauges, diagram cross sections, geographic maps and iconology. All of these elements seamlessly describe the history of the illness, details about how it spreads and treatment techniques in humans.
This ‘blackboard’ technique is gaining popularity and has been integrated into cartoons as well as many other mediums of art.
Missing from MOTD #60 was data about the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak between the months of November 2002 and July 2003, in which there were 8,096 known infected cases and 774 deaths.
Today’s map, from the NY Times, shows the frightening pace at which this disease spreads. It follows the travels of one Chinese professor who became infected with SARS while treating patients in China. The professor stays in an international hotel and infects many others.
The graphic is easy to navigate and understand because of a simple legend and a great use of bold text to show location and importance.
Whatever you name it, H1N1, Swine Flu or Hamthrax, there is no doubt that the virus has reached a pandemic level. While the dangers of contracting H1N1 is very real, the built up hysteria and media coverage it has spurred, rivals that of the avian bird flu of a few years ago.
Today’s map of the day, taken from www.interbent.com, highlights past pandemics and statistics based on population deaths. Swine flu is about halfway toward reaching the Avain Flu death count and it is merely a few weeks old (reported cases). More cause for concern was the ’2003 Unnamed Flu Pandemic’ being cited as very deadly and endemic in Asia. Plus without a name, how do we know which animal put the blame on? I think we should start calling this one the Scapegoat Pandemic…poor little pigs.
Today’s MOTD comes from a superstar in the infographic world, Megan Jaegerman. Recognized for her work in the news industry by Edward Tufte here, Jaegerman, “produced some of the best news graphics ever while working at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998. Her work has been described as smart, finely detailed, elegant, witty, inventive, informative.”
This specific graphic revolves around an average lifecycle for a woman, and is laid out in a game board format. Notice how the use of varied element styles, from dolls and figurines to silhouettes and cartoon illustration gives significant vibrancy to a normally ominous message, specifically, health risks associated with aging.
Be sure to read through this one…there are some quite comical messages.
