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How to make an animated forest fire map using Google My Maps and Carto

Gustavo Faleiros — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:55:52 +0000

Introduction Agricultural burning and forest fire are some of the planet’s most serious environmental problems and, unfortunately, a very common occurrence in many countries. In the forests of the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, fire can mean the advance of deforestation and most part of the fires are caused by humans in order […]

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Mixing shapefiles and comma-separated files in QGIS

Vitor George — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:03:57 +0000

Introduction The Comma Separated File format, or just CSV, especifies a data type store in a tabular manner. Each line represent a record, and each field is delimited by a comma or another separator character. This format is accepted by popular tools like Excel, LibreOffice and Google Docs, and by most of programming languages. In […]

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Easy steps for making charts and infographics using DataWrapper

Oluseun Onigbinde — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:29:25 +0000

Leading media organizations are using Datawrapper, a simple and free tool, to improve their storytelling this way. Datawrapper is an interactive chart app that can be embedded into stories such as this one, which shows the Nigerian government’s proposed budget in 10 charts. To sustain user attention and drive audience engagement, journalists and news organizations […]

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Visualizing data with Processing

Gabriel Gianordoli — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:33:46 +0000

In this tutorial we will learn how to load data from an external file and we will create a graph with a population area x for the 10 most populous cities in the world. Introduction Originally created as a tool to teach programming to visual artists, Processing language now has applications in several areas, including […]

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Basic steps for creating animation

Mariana Santos — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 21:02:22 +0000

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create an animation, it must be a short story that will serve as a teaser to invite the user to get to know the story we want to tell Introduction Animation Concepts The most important part of an animation is the story itself. So it is very important […]

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Choosing the right kind of map for your story

Gustavo Faleiros — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:25:53 +0000

Most available databases have some element of location to them. According to officers working at the open data portal of the US government, around 90% of their datasets contain geographical information, ranging from streets names to precise coordinates. In this tutorial, we will show the different kind of maps you can use to convey information […]

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Deforestation diagram with Adobe Illustrator

Gabriel Gianordoli — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:39:07 +0000

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a column chart using data in a table and how to customize it with some icons. Introdução Adobe Illustrator is a drawing tool that can also be used to construct simple static graphics. Although your options are limited (bar, line, area, scatterplot, pie and radar), the possibilities […]

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