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IB DP Geography Visual Stimulus

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Table of Contents

Sources of infographics
Reading about infographics
Visual vocabulary
Useful infographics
Teaching resources
Dealing with infographics OPCVL

Paper 2 section B will be 10 marks focused on your interpretation of an infographic.

Infographics

Sources of infographics

Visual Capitalist

The Economist - Graphic detail

information is beautiful

The World Bank on visually

Humanitarian Information Unit

United Nations Environment Programme - Environmental Data Explorer Posters

Honourable mentions - Worldmapper, Financial Times, The Guardian, parallel.co.uk, GOOD and WIRED.

Infographics

Reading about infographics

The Economist (on Medium) - Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few [27 March 2019]

National Geographic - Taking Data Visualization From Eye Candy to Efficiency [22 September 2015]

The Guardian - 16 useless infographics [1 August 2013]

Visual vocabulary

[Source]

Infographics

Useful infographics

Unit 1

Global Migration Data Sheet 2005-10 — [The Global Flow of People - Source]

Unit 2

Global Carbon Budget 2019 — [Global Carbon Project - Source]

Unit 3

The World’s Largest and Most Notable Energy Sources — [Information is Beautiful - Source]

Unit 4

Balance of superpowers — [Visual Capitalist - Source]

Unit 5

Fair Trade: Understanding What's Behind the Label — [GOOD - Fair Trade: Understanding What's Behind the Label]

Unit 6

How Apple—and the Rest of Silicon Valley—Avoids the Tax Man — [WIRED - How Apple—and the Rest of Silicon Valley—Avoids the Tax Man]

Freshwater

[GOOD - Source]

Food and health

Switzerland — [GBD Compare - Viz Hub]

Extreme environments

Percentage of Mountain Area per Country — [GRID-Arendal]

Teaching resources

Dealing with infographics OPCVL

OPCVL — [Source]