Tag: data visualization

This Week in Sharing: Open Cities, Open Education, OpenNews

By Paul M. Davis

10.18.12, 4:08pm Comments (0)

An urban prototyping manifesto, the Maker movement takes to the National Mall, a community for open source journalism, and more in this week in sharing. Read more »

Hans Rosling Visualizes Population Growth In One Minute [VIDEO]

By Paul M. Davis

06.01.12, 12:42pm Comments (0)

In a “one minute TED talk”, Hans Rosling demonstrates global population growth and socioeconomic trends using only a handful of rocks. Read more »

DataKind's Vision of a Data-Driven Social Change Movement

By Paul M. Davis

05.16.12, 1:32pm Comments (1)

The Chicago DataDive connected social organizations and geeks to build a civic data community to create lasting social change. Read more »

Apple and Wikipedia Join the Exodus to OpenStreetMap

By Paul M. Davis

04.11.12, 8:31am Comments (0)

Apple, Microsoft and Foursquare are embracing the crowdsourced Google Maps alternative OpenStreetMap. Are these companies contributors or freeloaders? Read more »

Hacking As A Civic Duty

By Paul M. Davis

03.23.12, 11:15am Comments (0)

Building the peer-to-peer cities of tomorrow will require more than apps and data visualizations. We must apply the hacker ethos to how we organize, collaborate, and tell the stories of our cities. Read more »