Resi-city: art, cities, resilience
What is the meaning of a map? Is it an objective tool or a representation of values? “H. Mazurek invites us to compare the points of view of the geographer as opposed to the...
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A network analysis of Covid-19 vaccines
The rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines has been underpinned by an intricate web of co-patents, intellectual property agreements and lawsuits. Showing them as a network can be useful to highlight the most relevant nodes...
Data Journalism and the increasing mobilization of data in public debates
The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to the daily use of graphics, dashboards and visualizations that helped make sense of its spread and global development. Data are increasingly available and easy to manipulate and diffuse....
Mapping electric networks and carbon intensity: how data can inform environmental choices
Where does your electricity come from? Does your country’s energy portfolio rely mostly on fossil fuels like coal and gas or renewable sources like wind and hydro-electric? The web platform electricity map allows to answer...
Is urbanization the solution to environmental crisis?
Increasing urbanization is a fact, with more than half of the world’s inhabitants living in cities. Cities are often perceived as a problem, but could they be the solution? A thought-provoking article by Kim...
Out now! Applying the Degree of Urbanisation — A methodological manual to define cities, towns and rural areas
The definition of cities and their limits is always a challenging task. In fact, urbanization patterns are very diverse and they rarely match administrative subdivisions. Thus, if it is often difficult to define where...
New IGU Newsletter – March 2021
The IGU Newsletter changes its format! In this number: Micheal Meadows (president of IGU) introduces the newsletter’s new format that will be now edited by Céline Rozenblat (vice-president of IGU). The International Geographic Congress...
Making beautiful data visualizations with RawGraph
Are you interested in data visualization and you would like to experiment with different charts? Then you might give RawGraph a go. This web-based application lets you import your data, choose between different charts...
Mapping Philosophy in the Paris metro
An interesting network interactive vizualization of philosophy where lines and connections are more important than the proximity in the network… follow each line to know more about a philosophical (sometimes literature or artistic) domain...
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: where do we stand?
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020 presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights trends for selected targets within each goal and introduces concepts about how some SDGs...
À contresens- the wrong way- Are electric cars not so green?
Electric cars are increasingly regarded as an interesting option to lower greenhouse emissions and curb pollution, especially in cities. There is often criticism, however, around a number of critical issues that would make electric...
Navigating the supply chain network of strategic resources
The European Union has recently acknowledged the strategic role of a number of critical raw materials that are used in the ICT, energy and defense industry. As a result, the Joint Research Center of...
Connected papers: a tool for visualizing the scientific literature network
Network visualizations are a powerful way to make sense of the ties between social entities, and they have often been applied to the scientific network connecting researchers and disciplines. Most of the times, these...
Readiness and response to Covid-19 crisis: how well have cities reacted?
The Covid-19 pandemic is highly affecting cities because population density favors virus diffusion. Cities are reinventing themselves in order to minimize chances of contagion while staying alive and functioning. A recently released UN-HABITAT platform...
Do Big Data tell the whole story? Integrating quantitative sources with “thick” data
In the past decade, increased digitalization and smartphone ownership have contributed to generate a huge growth in the amount of data that are produced, stocked and manipulated in order to create insights for firms...
What does the future of air transport look like after Covid-19?
The global pandemic caused by the spread of Covid-19 disease has implied a dramatic reduction of air travel all over the world. Companies have been forced to shrink their operations to the bone, while...
Tracking public transport in real-time
TRAVIC is a real-time tracker of public transport that allows the user to visualize the movement of trains, buses, trams and boats all over the world. It is based on a master thesis project by Patrick Brosi in...
Research on Covid-19: mapping scientific communities and their connections
What scientific literature is being produced and by which different scientific communities on the Covid-19 pandemic? Never before has scientific information been so quickly and widely produced, having a strategic impact in the public...
River maps: coloring the world’s circulatory system
Rivers are fundamentals in creating the right conditions for life: that is why most cities since ancient civilizations were built along their banks. Rivers form intricate networks linking the main branches and their smaller...
The Million Neighborhoods initiative: mapping spatial inequalities within cities.
The Million Neighborhoods Map is a groundbreaking visual tool that provides the first comprehensive look at informal settlements across Africa, helping to identify communities most in need of roads, power, water, sanitation and other infrastructure. Updates...