Over the last five years (since the beginning of 2008), as recorded by The Brady Campaign, the United States has seen 123 school related shootings. The map below shows the regional distributions of these events and the school at which they take place.
Biofuel is a growing renewable energy industry which requires plant-based material(s), called feedstocks, as a starting point to production. Biomass feedstocks are abundant and potential sources are found throughout the United States.
The Google Crisis Response Team has stepped up is providing a fully embeddable and highly detailed map of Hurricane Sandy. Some of the critical layers available are Evacuation Routes, Webcams, Traffic Conditions, and Surge Probability.
An interactive visualization that allows you to investigate the distribution of Olympic Medals (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) among the participating countries in this summer’s London Olympics.
There are so many ways to get what you have discovered out there for the world to see. One of the better more user friendly data visualization methods I have been steadily learning is Google Maps.
Downloading from a compatible source for data formatting and analysis can be challenging. A raw file format like .xls (MS excel) or .csv (comma separated values) will save you a lot of trouble when trying to sort statistics and generating presentations.
A motivated journalist, political consultant, or your average socio-whatever enthusiast should be able to collect the data that they are interested in, format it, analyze it given the criteria of the final product and hopefully visualize it in a presentable and convincing format.
