How Much Water Does it Take to Make Your Food?
Today is World Water Day.
The UN has a site about water and food security issues here.
Image: 142 liters of water are needed to produce the 8 tomatoes, 1.5 slices of bread and portion of butter to make this meal. Via the UN World Water Day Flickr account.
Visualizing User activity on Google+
For network theory nerds, watch what happens with strong and weak links between community clusters.
By Artem Zubkov
Infographic that shows the number of new inhabitants of cities per hour.
(via futurejournalismproject)
Source: stoweboyd
Visualizing Taxis in Manhattan
Via Digital Urban:
Taxi! is an analytical model that maps the trip data for 10,000 taxi rides over the course of 24 hours. Geographic location data for the origin and destination of each ride is combined with waypoint data collected from the Google Maps API in order to generate a geographically accurate representation of the trip.
The team used data from taxi rides originating or ending in the neighborhoods of Lincoln center or Bryant Park. The visualization recreates a ‘breathing’ map of Manhattan based on the migration of vehicles across the city over a period of 24 hours, displaying periods of intensity, density and decreased activity.
Created by Tom McKeogh, Eliza Montgomery and Juan F Saldarriaga.
H/T: Flowing Data.
