UIA Professional Practice Commission Database – the International Union of Architects (UIA) has a great searchable collection of information on architectural practice requirements and statistics for countries all around the world. It’s under practice overseas and is described as “the best existing database to understand the context in which architects …
Connected China: Explaining the Players and Networks within China – post on the always-interesting blog information aesthetics about a “beautifully crafted” app developed collaboratively by Thomson Reuters and Fathom Information Design. Here’s a direct link to the Connected China app. [It] tracks and visualizes the people, institutions and relationships that form China’s elite power …
A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map of America – here’s a map that’s not drawn according to state boundaries but by transaction areas. Based on the website Where’s George? which tracks the flow of dollar bills, Dirk Brockmann of Northwestern University devised this map. Deep blue means …
If you need to understand U.S. government spending, take a look at USAspending.gov. The first thing you see after a search is a map that lets you know at a glance which states have the most funding for whatever it is you’re looking up. For instance, here’s a search for …
The world’s economic center of gravity shifts – a post in McKinsey Quarterly’s Chart Focus newsletter about … 440 largely obscure urban areas that will account for close to 50 percent of expected global GDP growth between 2010 and 2025 McKinsey Quarterly has a …
African cities with high growth potential – about recent release of MasterCard’s African cities growth index. The index covers sub-Saharan cities. According to the the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, the urban population of Africa is expected to triple by 2050 to 1.23 billion (from 395 million in …
Information technology in Africa: The next frontier (The Economist) – IBM, along with other tech firms, is setting up shop in Africa, last year opening one of its twelve global research labs in Nairobi. Africa’s chief attraction is that it has been growing while richer regions have stalled …. Its …
INFOGRAPHIC: The Ultimate Complete Final Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet – from LunaMetrics, a cheat sheet for sizing images on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest. What’s even better is that this link will always take you to the latest information, a really great idea. Via ResearchBuzz. We also …
Chart Focus: How to compete in emerging markets – from McKinsey Quarterly’s Chart Focus newsletter, a recommendation for international companies to group cities in an emerging market by shared characteristics as a way to more efficiently expand into that region. …in China, to give just one example, …
Take a peek at the next 150 years – post on Urban Times about predictions of our future. One of the featured infographics is from BBC Future called Tomorrow’s World, looking at computing and robotics, politics and business, science and nature, society, and technology it puts them all on a …
Technology Ranks World’s Most Trusted Industry in 2013 – according to the 2013 annual Edelman Trust Barometer. The 13th annual Edelman Trust Barometer is our largest exploration of trust, to date, and the largest survey of its kind. For 2013, we surveyed …
Selected quotes from The Economist’s latest survey of company executives (mostly from North America and Europe) about their outlook for doing business in Asia, Investing in an accelerating Asia? (37-p PDF). After a slowdown in 2012, executives expect better things in 2013 Companies are expecting their sales to grow twice …
Wind, solar power paired with storage could be cost-effective way to power grid – Recent research from the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College says this can be done by 2030 at costs comparable to today’s. The study drew on data from 13 states, about one fifth …
How Places Like Columbus, Indiana, Outrank Silicon Valley – everyone knows that Silicon Valley is a hotbed of start-up activity. But there are smaller American cities “where recessions have been remarkably absent, where manufacturing thrives, where populations continue to rise” and people are finding jobs. A recent survey, Leading Locations for …
5 meta-trends underlying almost all of modern marketing – wonderful infographic of marketing technology firms illustrates one of the five trends. All the others have good graphics as well. The great digital migration of marketing (and business). The convergence of paid, …
Federal R&D Award Trending – comparing a number of sources the author examines trends in federal R&D awards and spending. … even though spending appears to have gone down in 2012, the number of contracts saw a slight increase, implying that there was a smaller average dollar amount per …
These Are the Cities That Can Show Us How to Create Jobs – The Atlantic Cities – A recent analysis of competitiveness and job growth across U.S. metros conducted by Economic Modeling Specialists could not be more timely. It provides a detailed assessment of the metros that have generated the most robust job growth based on …
Renewable energy to become world’s second-largest power generation source by 2015, says IEA – post on Renewable Energy Focus about a recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), World Energy Outlook 2012. In 2011, subsidies for renewables (including for biofuels) amounted to $88 billion – over the period to 2035 …