Globalisation of the Premier League

The BBC have attempted a geographical visualisation outlining the origin of players in the Premier League. There is a club-by-club comparison from today and twenty years ago. There are a number of issues with it (no labelling, no zoom, poor choice of map projection), but it might help spark debate amongst students.

See here for more.

We're Back!

Apologies for disappearing over the last few months. Things are less hectic now and i've got time to post things again..

Geography of Crime

See FlowingData for 20 visualisations of crime data. It includes offering from the NYT on murders in New York, London burglary rates by borough, and even a map showing the location of Bernie Madoff's victims!

The Economy

A recession is boom time for visualisers it seems.

The State of Britain from the FT uses data from the recent Budget to illustrate dominance of the public sector in the UK economy.

Population

The World of 100 graphics

What's a billion dollars?

US Economy

Who is getting what in the bailout package. An interactive visualisation.



US stimulus package visualised



Another visualisation of the bailout.



US unemployment rates (cheers Oli)


Male-female pay differences

Another bailout diagram

Amusing/Clever Visualisations

A few from thisindexed.com:





Cartoon on correlation from xkcd.com:



Academic(ish):








Demetri Martin with some amusing graphs (adult humour!)

Demetri Martin Stand Up Presentation from Demetri Martin

Presenting Information - Creating Visualisations

Some useful stuff about making information visual

A visualisation about visualisation styles in the form of the periodic table (thanks for the reminder John).


[click on picture for interactive table]

If you are a fan charts:



A visualisation creation tool from Many Eyes.

With GMapCreator you can map thematic data onto Google Maps (good link Seraphim).

US demographics visualizer

A short piece about information

[if you like the style of presentation see this previous post on kinetic typography]

Some examples/ideas

Nine ways to visualise consumption as found on Flowing Data

Many mind maps.

Youtube and Geography

Youtube has an increasing number of videos available that are useful for students, and that can complement lectures and seminars. Here are a selection:

Edward Said - an interview with Said and analysis of his work by Prof. Sut Jhally of the University of Masachusetts



David Harvey - A brief history of Neoliberalism



See also the excellent davidharvey.org which has videos of his course on reading Marx as well as comments on recent events.

The European Graduate School has a series of videos of talks from a range of theorists, including Donna Haraway , Judith Butler, and Jean Baudrillard.

There are numerous conversations with, and videos of Michael Porter

Not a video, but an audio recording of Doreen Massey's Radio 3 lecture is available to download, along with a transcript from the OU.