Archive for December, 2009
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Different – innovative and attractive – way of displaying CO2 emission data, as ISO country codes. And very useful to see both per capita and total values displayed next to each other. PDFs available here.
Posted in Design, GEO, GIS, WWW | Comments Off on New Posters: CO2 Emissions with Country ISO Codes
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Complex data visualization, with data on CO2 emissions per Capita, Total CO2 emissions, Total Population, GDP and the region. PDFs available here.
Posted in Design | Comments Off on New Posters: CO2 Emissions, GDP and Population as Bubble Charts
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
A small series of data visualizations based on data from the UNEP GEO Data Portal. Covering issues like emissions, fisheries, forests, protected areas etc.
Posted in Design | Comments Off on New Posters: Covering various environmental fields
Monday, December 28th, 2009
… and another one ….
Works on negative numbers too. $sigdigs should be >= 0
= 1) {
$number /= 10;
$multiplier *= 10;
}
return round($number, $sigdigs) * $multiplier;
}
?>
Posted in Programming | Comments Off on PHP: Significant Numbers
Monday, December 28th, 2009
From the Footprint Network. Much about the Climate Talks was quiet puzzling as well:
Posted in Divers | Comments Off on Copenhagen, comments
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Outputs a human readable number.
# Output easy-to-read numbers
# by james at bandit.co.nz
function bd_nice_number($n)
{
// first strip any formatting;
$n = (0+str_replace(",","",$n));
// is this a number?
if(!is_numeric($n)) return false;
// now filter it;
if($n>1000000000000) return round(($n/1000000000000),1).' trillion';
else if($n>1000000000) return round(($n/1000000000),1).' billion';
else if($n>1000000) return round(($n/1000000),1).' million';
else if($n>1000) return round(($n/1000),1).' thousand';
return number_format($n);
}
?>
Outputs:
247,704,360 -> 247.7 million
866,965,260,000 -> 867 billion
Source
Posted in Programming | Comments Off on PHP: Change Units
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Posted in Design, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Treemap for Population
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Good tool to see how many web pages are linking to someone elses website.
Posted in Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Number of Links to a Website
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Nice infographic with lots of brands one knows.
Posted in Design, WWW | Comments Off on The Conservation Prism
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Very nice login/registration form. See it here in action.
Posted in Design, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Nice Registration Form
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Posted in Design | Comments Off on Has the world economy turned the corner?
Monday, December 14th, 2009
Posted in Design, GIS, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Climate Change
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Posted in Divers | Comments Off on TED: Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Posted in Divers | Comments Off on TED: Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Posted in Divers | Comments Off on TED: David Logan on tribal leadership
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Posted in Technology | Comments Off on TED: Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Posted in Technology | Comments Off on TED: Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Posted in Design | Comments Off on TED: Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Posted in Divers | Comments Off on TED: Matthew White gives the euphonium a new voice
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Posted in Divers | Comments Off on TED: Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole