Post Tagged with: "data visualization"
Infographic of the Week: Weight of the Nation & Obesity Prevention
A new report released Monday, “Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation,” by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health group of the National Academy of Sciences, outlines five obesity prevention actions that can accelerate societal-level prevention
Infographic of the Week: Open Source Framework for Cooking
Studiofeast explores new approaches to cooking based on dish structure, rather than traditional recipe format. They believe this will result in a much more fulfilling experience in the kitchen.
FAO’s Shiny New Agricultural Data & Information Sharing Tool
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new resource that will make its agricultural development strategy a whole lot easier. The Agricultural Development Assistance Mapping (ADAM) tool is a platform that gathers information from diverse databases about agricultural development needs, objectives, in-country activities, and funding modalities, and aggregates
Infographic of the Week: Mapping the Satiety of Food
The latest infographic from Column Five and Massive Health maps the Satiety Index against the Inverted Glycemic Index to determine which foods fill you up and keep you satisfied.
Infographic of the Week: Cotton vs Carrots
This week’s graphic compares the money given in subsidies to eight cotton farms in California to that spent on the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program supplying snacks to elementary schools in the state
Designers and Food Experts Create Infographics on Beef, New Farms
Monday, Food+Tech Connect announced the winners of the Farm Bill Hackathon, but several other interesting projects were also created
Visualizing You, Me & The Farm Bill: A Hackathon
On December 3, Food+Tech Connect and Gojee are bringing together journalists, technologists, designers, policy makers, and food data specialists to develop tools and visualizations that will help the public better understand how the Farm Bill impacts our lives. Over the course of 12 hours, participants will work together to produce tools and graphics news media and organizations will be able to use to convey the complexities and relevance of the Farm Bill to the public
What is the Farm Bill? And Why Should I Care?
Yesterday, Food+Tech Connect announced we will be holding a “Farm Bill Hackathon” on December 3rd. But what is the “Farm Bill?”
Infographic of the Week: The Two Sides of the Food Crisis
The Public Health Program created an infographic to look at “The Two Sides of the Food Crisis,” and to untangle the many factors causing the crisis
“Infoodgraphic”: Complementary Meat Flavors Visualized
Data visualists David McCandless and Willow Tyrer explore 1000 recipes from BBC Food and Epicurious to visualize flavor patterns. The series of “infoodgraphics,” as McCandless refers to them, include fish, poultry, root vegetables, greens and salad, bulbuous stem vegegetables, and meat (below). Click here to view the complete ‘visualization of complimentary flavours’ or here to purchase a hi-res
World Bank Open Agricultural Data Lacking
In early July I read in The New York Times that the World Bank is releasing 7,000 data sets into the public domain. So I decided to check it out and see what’s there. Not a lot, it turns out. When it comes to agricultural information – arguably the most important sector of the Bank’s
Infographic Visualizes The Greenhouse Gas Emissions of 20 Popular Proteins
Last week, Environmental Working Group released Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change+Health, to make it easier for consumers to green their diet and the planet. They partnered with environmental analysis firm CleanMetrics to conduct lifecycle assessments for 20 kinds of meat, dairy, and vegetable proteins. Using a systems approach to conduct the assessments, they calculated the
Data Visualization Tools & Resources
I had the pleasure of participating in Emily Cavalier’s TECHmunch panel- What’s New in Food: Understanding Trends to Enrich Your Content. The following is a round-up of some of the data visualization resources I mentioned during the panel, as well as some additional goodies
Food+Health Infographics
Health | Tech | Food Infographic ReelView more presentations from Luminary Labs. Last week, Luminary Labs hosted Health | Tech | Food, a Social Media Week event that brought together thought leaders and community members for ideation around how social technology is and could be leveraged to innovate around core core health issues. This comprehensive
Visualizing The Honey Bee Extinction
User interface and data visualization design firm FFunction created this infographic to visualize the severe decline of the honey bee population (Colongy Collapse Disorder) over the last 5 years, how it affects us, and why it matters. Why should we care? According to the infographic, bee-pollinated crops account for 1/3 of our diet and represent
