"One of the most common analysis made in urban planning is to determine the area of influence of a series of points, to know for example how many people is served by each school in a city, or manage a network of public transport.
"The Federal Education Budget Project at New America Foundation just relaunched its open data site EdBudgetProject.org, adding new mapping and comparison tools for more than 65 indicators about the 14,000 public school districts in the United States and an entire new section monitoring 7,500 higher education institutions. The site features fast auto-complete search that allows you to quickly find any school district or higher eduction institution right from the homepage.
"Change.org - This is an online activism platform that has enacted change over the world. They recently got an Argentine journalist fired and got hacked for a petition against the Chinese government. Non-profits can register their organizations and then post their initiatives, updates and petitions for their followers to see. Furthermore, an individual can create a petition for a cause they believe in, and then use social media to get their network behind it. Some petitions have garnered upwards of 150,000 backers.
UN Global Pulse, an initiative by the United Nations and Visualizing.org have teamed up to challenge you to visualize the voices of vulnerable populations in times of global crisis.
"Dorothy Gambrell of very small array continues with her fascination of movie quality and money gross. This time around she looks looks at the overlap between Academy Award nominees and highest grossing films from 1928 to present. While the two categories are not mutually exclusive, the overlap isn't incredible common." Read at flowingdata.com
"If you've visited YouTube in the past couple of weeks, you've probably noticed the links to this year's commencement speeches by all the famous people. Most speakers seem to base a lot on their own experiences, but they tend to revolve around the same themes like meeting challenges, don't fear failure, and love what you do. Of course, there's still plenty of variance across speeches though. ..."Read more at flowingdata.com
a 3-Week Data Visualization Project Development Workshop
