An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country, updated with the latest figures.
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This map shows current member states of the United Nations by their dates of admission.
David McCandless was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed.
He had a stand-out statistic that snagged my mind. He thought he would visualise it. viaChapter Building Committee visualize their strategies for developing InterVarsity campus chapters. As talented teachers and communicators, the commitee often already had (and continue to have) visual ideas. I came in to help edit, consult, do quick mock-ups, and make beautiful and brand-standard-compliant final diagrams. The project took about a kagillion phone calls, since the 12 committee members live in every US time zone, but it's a priviledge to speak into the organization's strategy and teaching, and visualize methods and understandings. The diagrams continue to be developed and will be used to train students and staff across the country.via www.behance.net
When measuring the impact of the Exxon oil spill over the US coast the result is not influencing only the surface of the water and the deep water impact is far greater than we could imagine.
via www.thenewecologist.comCommunicating with a submerged submarine has always been difficult, and since the submarine has to come up to periscope depth it has also been risky. Now a new buoy developed by Lockheed Martin should enable stealth submarines to send and receive text messages while remaining safely at depth. via www.physorg.com
Infographic and new alerts on government spending.
The graphic does a beautiful job of providing a quick read on the regional distribution of poverty, while maintaining a scaled representation of the data values.
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Foreign-born labour: Alien invasions
As economies across the developed world fell into recession in 2008, legal permanent immigration to the mostly rich members of the OECD declined by 6%, after five years during which growth averaged 11%. Despite the slowdown in the arrival of new migrants, the number of foreign-born workers in most OECD countries rose in 2008 from a year earlier. In 2007 one in every four workers in Australia was born abroad; in 2008 that share rose further, to 26.5%. Among the 18 OECD countries for which 2008 data are available, the share of the foreign-born in the labour force fell only in Luxembourg (not shown), Austria, Belgium and France. The number of foreign-born workers in America rose by 308,000 in 2008, to 25.1m.via www.economist.comGraffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles.