Haiti disaster cartography

Haiti disaster cartography

They've done it again at the New York Times

To coin a phrase from my good friend JAG at Innovation, this is pure infographic caviar

Super text and visual reporting, supporting a very impressive topographic relief map

However does the wonderful rendering of the mountain range enable us to understand which areas of Port-au-Prince are badly effected by the earthquake?

Is the mountain range and the visualisation of the 'valley' important in the story telling?

Maybe!

Whatever the answer, now I know what the Port-au-Prince area looks like

Please leave comments below, I think that this is an interesting debate to have

Cheers

Malofiej18: World infographic Summit

Malofiej18: World infographic Summit

Its time to send your finest infographics to Pamplona – the location of the world infographics summit in Navarra, Spain

As they are called the 'Oscars' of visual journalism, all eyes for the prize will be on SND-E from the 7-12 March

The call for entries 2010 has a deadline of 5 Feb, and the pdf can be downloaded here

Al-Qaeda fully restructured?

Bin Ladens network cracks on

Always basing themselves where there is trouble and strife, are al-Qaeda back in town?

According to Con Coughlin in the Daily Telegraph:

while intelligence officials say it is impossible to estimate the total number of al-Qaeda activists worldwide, the emergence of Yemen as a major terrorist training and recruitment centre... is now major concern

I'm not doubting this at all, as only before Christmas Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was discovered on Flight 232 to Detroit, trying to detonate an explosive device near his bollocks

And that Yemen is now an integral part of our fight against terrorism, as our graphic reports

But what trick are we missing, and why is intelligence always two steps behind?

And if I can be stopped at an airport for carrying an almost empty bottle of water, then why can't dozens of angry migrating militants hell-bent on blowing up the innocent?

Apple tablet mania

New emperors clothes?

A good friend and colleague at the Telegraph comments

In an ageing population, as we have in the UK, and in the middle of a financial crisis, an object that whilst a marvel is quite unobtainable financially to the young, and intellectually to the elderly. Plus why do they always scroll down? If it is going to be a giant ipod touch when will someone produce a website that scrolls right to left as most of the western world does, instead of a giant virtual parchment

cheers and amen to WOODY!

Britain's big freeze

Baby its cold outside

I took a few pics with my mobile phone around my small village in Oxfordshire

The very county, where which the village of Benson, as reported in the Telegraph, that residents today awoke to find the outside temperature a teeth-chattering -17.7C (0.14F)

Popular opinion says that it is lunacy to try and get to the local train station for London

Many are staying indoors, working from home or drinking a wee dram in the local, The Frog. Thank the Lord that Rebellion have just delivered some beer

Whereas the local store has no bread, milk or charcuterie and no newspapers

But we have beer, and whisky (Scot), or whiskey (Irish) and sweet images. SND entries can wait another week!

What a start to the year, and a Happy New year to all!

Pre Budget Report

Fine work by the Guardian today

Infographic analysis, a column wide showing UK GDP sector share between 1970 and 2007

For example in 1970 'manufacturing' was 31.7%, whereas two years ago it checkout out at 12.4% of the UK's core money spinner

Apologies for the poor scan, but the graphic is so clear, and well conceived that only a complete numpty can not see the extremely clear, sector comparisons, ahead of Alistair Darlings' final Pre Budget Report

A great piece of work!

Climate change refugees

The world's first climate change refugees

They are not please with their new-found notoriety, but the inhabitants of the Carteret Islands, after their 300 year history, will be uprooted and evacuated from their homes

The cause: rising sea levels

Where the once white beaches made the island a secret idyll, the highest point now only stands 5ft above sea level

An interactive, by scrolling down the home page by David Kinross, shows this perfectly

The 'Tulin' – people who come from the ocean – and interviewed by the Daily Telegraph, can be seen and heard here on Telegraph.co.uk

Lets hope the world leaders at the summit in Copenhagen can sort their squabbles and deliver