Many Eyes is a site that allows you to transform data into images on a screen (a 'visualisation'). You can view and discuss visualisations; view and discuss data sets; and create visualisations from existing data sets.
We registered an account with Many Eyes, which enables us to share our own data and visualisations. Anyone visiting the site can use our data - which all has descriptions and source notes - and create their own visualisations from it. Following this link will take you to the Development Initiatives page on the Many Eyes site, which features our visualisation and data collections.
We have posted some of these visualisations on the pages below. You just need to click on the teaser headings below to see the ones you're interested in. We hope to add more posts over the coming weeks and months.
To view Many Eyes charts, you will need the latest version of Java, which you can download by following this link to java.com
Countries receiving long-term humanitarian assistance
Area (stack) graphGlobal humanitarian assistance 2007 and 2008
We estimate the international response to humanitarian crises to have reached US$15 billion in 2007 and US$18 billion in 2008.
Humanitarian assistance to chronically poor countries
Area (stack) graphRecipients of humanitarian aid and official development assistance (ODA), 2008
Sudan was the largest recipient of humanitarian aid in 2008. It received (US$1.3 billion) from the 22 member governments of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the European Commission.