Category Archives: Infographics

New Discovery… Google Public Data!

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

I am writing an article on Myanmar and how social enterprise can *hopefully* ease some of the socio-political growing pains the country is going to go through as its borders open up to foreign investment. I found this awesome tool … Continue reading →

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Big Data – A new human centric design tool?

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

I love the UN Global Pulse. In a recent report “Big Data for Development,” the organization chronicles how Big Data—call logs, mobile-banking transactions, online user-generated content such as blog posts and Tweets, online searches, satellite images, etc.— can be turned into actionable information. … Continue reading →

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Child Forced Labor, Visualized.

Posted on November 20, 2010 by

This data visualization is by the organization Anti-Slavery, and is the FastCo Design infographic of the day. A more detailed explanation of Brazilian forced child labor explains: Poor labourers in Brazil can be tricked into forced labour on rural estates in … Continue reading →

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Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

I love infographics. They make legal and policy topics interesting and engaging. I also love Transparency International, founded by former World Bank Director Peter Eigen, who witnessed the detrimental impacts of corruption in the developing and developed world. View the … Continue reading →

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