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Emissions & How To Cut Them

Information Is Beautiful have published a fantastic, informative and very important visualisation of the breakdown of the 51.8 Gigatonnes of CO2e emission we produce each year. The visualiastion also lays out the amount of reduction needed in each category to half the emissions by 2013 and reach net zero by 2050.

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Poli

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Poli is an free Business Intellignce (BI) server that connects to the main SQL databases and allows for custom data analysis and visualisation.

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Trennd

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Trennd collates the top google searches over time, to show you the popular topics as and when they blow up. You can search from 5 years to 3 months and you can see the monthly growth exponent and curve growth gradient.

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Tech

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Flight Carbon Calculator

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The Guardian have released a flight carbon calculator, allowing you to select your starting and destination airports to see how much kilograms of CO2 emmissions are released per passenger on that return flight. it also shows you how many countries emit less CO2 per person per year compared to that flight. Aviation is responsible for 2% of global emissions and are set to at least double by 2050 :-(

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Environment

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The Solar System As Gaeilge

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In a great tweet thread this week, artists Ciaran Duffy released a set of illustrated the solar system and planets in Irish. You can buy the range of beautiful prints here.

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Space

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Easy Pie Chart Maker

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Easy Pie Chart Maker by Beautiful Dingbats does what is says on the tin :-).

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Spotting Fake Video

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The Washington Post has published a great instructional site about the different ways video can be faked, with recent examples including adding repeated frames to Jim Acosta's interaction with The White House intern grabbing the mic, and how to spot them.

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Best Dogs

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Check out the great and informative plot dataviz from Information Is Beautiful. The graphic shows the best breeds of dog and also differentiates between clever breeds and dumb breeds, like the poor Irish Wolfhound.

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Despair

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Dutch Data Visualisation specialist Sonja Kuijpers has published a powerful data visualisation which represents the number of people who died by suicide in the Netherlands in 2017.

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Mary Meeker / Bond Internet Trends 2019

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Mary Meeker & Bond have published her 2019 Internet Trends report. Internet penetration is up to 51% of the global population as of 2018, among lots of other stats. Check out the full Bond report here.

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