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Climate Change Impact Maps

ESRI published a set of Climate Change Impact maps for Europe using their ARCGIS software. The maps show comparisons between low emmissions and high emmissions scenarios for sea levels, droughts, income for farmers, flooding and fires.

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Environment

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Clean Energy

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Look at these fantastic Beautiful News data visualisations about how clean energy is increasing worldwide!

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Environment

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Google Dataset Search

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Google's Dataset Search tool has been released out of beta. The tool now includes filtering options by dataset type and usage rights.

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Tech

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City Roads

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City Roads is a tool created by Andrei Kashcha that displays only the roads on a city map. The colours can be customised and the resulting image can be printed on a mug or exported.

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Web Dev

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What Colour Is Your Name?

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Synesthesia is a rare sensory trait shared by about 4% of the population. Bernadette Sheridan has created an interactive tool to visualise the colours associated with the letters of a name as experienced by people with grapheme-color synesthesia.

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NYTimes on Location Tracking

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The New York Times published a fantastic exposé and data visualistion site about the scale of gathering and selling of location data. They obtained a file with 50 billion location pings of 12 million Americans and sifted through the data in horror. The data can be bought from data aggregation companies that offer data collected from apps on your smartphone, like news or coupons apps, not from telecom companies or the big tech companies.

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Occupation Growth & Decline

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Flowing Data compiled American occupation data from 1970 to 2017 and have produced a lovely graph of occupation growth and decline.

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The Cornell Note Taking System

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For those that prefer paper note taking, Cornell University has their own system of note taking, summarising and learning for the exam which seems quote efficient. However new research points to no major difference between paper and laptop note taking.

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City Air Pollution

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The New York Times released an interactive page showing the amount of air pollution in the world's major cities. The page also allows you to compare your city with some of the cities with the highest air pollution.

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Environment

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Road Deaths

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Chris Sharp has a fascinating post on City Metric about the amount of road deaths on British roads between 1997 and 2018. The graph of deaths clearly shows decline for a number of years and then stagnation. Chris investigates the reasons behind this and discovers investment, or lack thereof, in speed control measures and speed cameras has a direct result in the number of deaths on the roads.

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