Rising Food Prices - Nearly One Billion Go to Bed Hungry

Put Food First - Every day nearly 1 billion people go to bed hungry. Rising and volatile food prices are causing pain and suffering for poor people around the world, driving 44 million people into extreme poverty in recent months. We need to find solutions to ensure everyone has enough nutritious food now and in the years to come. This video made by WorldBank.

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Latest Visualisation Contest: Win an iPad2

Topic: Visualize ethnic heritage, and socioeconomic background of black students attending different United Kingdom university system. There are no restrictions on the nature of the visualisation (video/static/interactive). For more details of the competition (click here).

Prize: Brand new iPad2 for the winner. And the top 3 will receive signed copies of ‘Information is Beautiful’ by David McCandless.
Deadline: 11pm GMT on Monday 20th June 2011.
Result: Winners will be announced by Monday 4th July 2011.

Competition rules: It is open to all countries except where local law prohibits (more rules here)
Dataset: Data collected by David McCandless, Guardian DataBlog post on Oxbridge Elitism and UCAS Annual Datasets (You are free to utilise any dataset, provided the sources are publicly available and appropriate citations are included in your entry.)

via Mark from EpicGraphic.com

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The Colourful World of Statistics

The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) Switzerland made this fascinated video by the data that millions of people cause to be produced every day by their activities.

This video also available in German, French and Italian (YouTube SwissStats).

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The World in 2100 Videographic

The world’s population will reach 7 billion by the end of October, according to the latest projections from the United Nations. For the first time the UN has attempted to look as far ahead as 2100, using various assumptions about how fertility and mortality rates might change over the years. The average of these estimates suggests that the global population will cross 10 billion by 2085.

via www.economist.com

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World's Tallest Buildings

These are the tallest skyscrapers in the world as of May 2011.

Buildings are ordered by official height.  This ordering method deals only with a building's roof height or spire height, whichever is greater, and doesn't take antenna heights into consideration.  This method makes the Petronas Towers appear taller than the Sears Tower.

via skyscraperpage.com

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Visualizes Google Search Queries from Around the World

Google launched a data visualization tool that presents search queries from all around the world called Search Globe, a new visual display representing one day of Google searches around the world—visualizing the curiosity of people around the globe.

This visualization was developed and designed by the Google Data Arts Team using WebGL, a new technology for modern browsers that uses your computer’s hardware to generate fast, 3D graphics. As a result, you need a WebGL-enabled browser.

Live demo:
Search Globe
(Click above link to see interactive graphics)

via googleblog.blogspot.com

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