Scott Nolan Smith
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The Doctor and The Torchphoto: (x)
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We’ve joined Pinterest! Follow our boards as we showcase what makes Britain GREAT.
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Explore the UK-US economic relationship through an interactive map following the steps of the Olympic Torch. Interactive version here ›
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British Embassy EU Open House Day
The British Embassy in Washington recently took part in the EU Open House day, where European Embassies...
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In a lighter moment, the G8 leaders watched the penalty shootout between Bayern Munich and Chelsea at the Champion’s League final.
Mapping Wikipedia
Via Tracemedia:
Mapping Wikipedia is a groundbreaking visualisation of the world mapped according to articles in 7 different languages. The map displays both the global patterns and the vast number of geo-located items. The dataset was produced by the Oxford Internet Institute as part of a project that examines Wikipedia in the Middle East and North Africa…
…The project was developed using the excellent Open Layers. To display the large number of articles we wrote a subclass of the Open Layers Canvas renderer, and optimised for point plotting. As a fallback for browsers that don’t support canvas we included the FlashCanvas shim.
The Google basemap was produced using the Styled Map Wizard
To glue everything together we used jQuery.
Image: English, by Wordcount in Europe. Via Tracemedia.
H/T: Flowing Data
An animated introduction to the UN’s Global Pulse initiative
Global Pulse (www.unglobalpulse.org) is an innovation initiative of the UN Secretary-General, harnessing today’s new world of digital data and real-time analytics to gain a better understanding of changes in human well-being. (via unglobalpulse)
Numbers and figures from Nielsen’s 2011 Social Media report, which demonstrates the social web dominates Americans’ lives.
(via thenextweb)
