Various Infographics

All from Princeton's International Networks Archive

Obama Inauguration

Amongst the wall to wall coverage of Barack Obama's inauguration are some interesting visualisations.

CNN offers a timeline of Bush's presidency.

The BBC has a short film about changing attitudes to race in America featuring Terrence Roberts and his family.

The New York Times presents a series of features including an interactive map of places to go in Washington for anyone visiting for the inauguration; a 3D map of the parade route; but most interesting an analysis of Presidential inaugural addresses from 1789 to present. Along with a little bit of history and the option to read the whole speech, they present a list of the words most used by the incoming president. I've mentioned this before, but you can do a similar analysis of any piece of text with word clouds at wordle.net. Below is George Washington's and George Bush's first inaugural addresses.

Washington:


Bush:


Try it yourself with a journal article or interview transcript. See also a previous post.

Development

Exploiting Africa feature from the New York Times

The UN have a series of interactive features based on their Human Development Reports (Flash required to play some of them). See also Gapminder.org for some awesome ways to represent time series data.

The Luckiest Nut in the World, a short animated film about trade liberalisation and its impact on developing nations.

A slideshow from the NYT about Zimbabwe.

Interconnections

MIT mapping phone calls from New York to the rest of the world (thanks for the link Oli)

Global air traffic in a single day.

The BBC's Britain from Above resources and Youtube videos.

Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834 exhibition at the British Library.

The flow of immigrants to the US.

Mapping music and artist connections done in a Simon Pattersonesque style. Perhaps not strictly geography, but it is a map.



From Princeton's Mapping Globalization project, a map of telegraph lines in 1869.

Representing Populations

The world's population as pixels, including you, from Population: One

Everyone in the world in one room: an art installation from Stan's Cafe. Videos containing more details: 1 and 2.

Shrinking the human population to 100 - The Miniature Earth Project

A globe of data (note - not just population) from infomagnet.com

The always excellent Worldmapper

Live population (and other) statisitcs at Worldometers.info

Icaro Doria using flags to represent data.

Gaza Conflict

Visualisations and timeline of the current conflict from the BBC and The Guardian.

A longer timeline from the New York Times

A map of bombings and casualties.

A shrinking world?

Some projects mapping the uneven travel times between places:

Travel times in London, Cambridge and for Great Britain.

Princeton's non-geographic mapping project. Chose your city and find out how close places are.

Travel times in Japan.

London's tube map redrawn...and again.