Using Images to Understand Social Causes
Sometimes numbers can be confusing... That is why many choose to demonstrate key social issues using images and graphics. These Infographics and Data Visualizations cut through the abstractness of "1 billions dollars", "102,234 deaths" or "600,000 homeless" by displaying images that are clear and often overwhelming. Essentially making statistics much more real to the reader.
Below I capture some of these outstanding commentary on society. Some are listed and reviewed because of the cause and others because of the mastery in producing the visualization.
How Billions are Spent
where the money goes...
This is an entry in the Information is Beautiful Blog by David McCandless. It uses a technique of layout out boxes whose sizes represent amounts of money. Quickly you see the staggering amounts the U.S. is spending on the stimulus, how the Iraq War spending compares to initial estimates, and relatively how little it would cost to feed every child in the world for a year. This is one powerful graphic...The Billion Dollar Gram Good Magazine Contest to Create an Infographic on CEO Pay
Is such disparity justified?
Capitalism is about supply and demand and selecting the price that the market will bear. This info-graphic brings calls out the disparity between those at the top and the bottom.
Link to the winner of the Good Magazine Contest.
Contest details and other entries.
Chris Jordan's talk at TED
Visualizing Society's Bad Habits
Chris Jordan: Picturing excess
http://www.ted.com Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
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Links to Social Infographics
Discussing or Demonstrating Social Infographics
Below are some products on Amazon that either discuss Social Info-graphics or demonstrate use of data visualizations as commentary on society.
An Inconvenient Truth
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the sc more...0 points
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
An Inconvenient Truth-Gore's groundbreaking, battl more...0 points
Running the Numbers: An American Self-portrait by Chris Jordan
Statistics can be daunting and dry: 1,000,000 tree more...0 points
Good Infographics
GOOD is an organization and associated magazine that aims to be "a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward." While they do it they have also created some amazing images to help society understand the data around it.
If you have not seen it you should check out the Good Transparency Department.
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