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Une Ukraine multinationale - Visionscarto

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Une autre carte pour représenter l’Ukraine des peuples

Depuis le début de la crise ukrainienne, j’ai vu passer de nombreuses cartes qui figuraient plus ou moins bien le caractère multinational de la population. J’en ai créé quelques-unes, mais avec une petite dose de frustration, ayant été obligé de travailler avec des sources trop générales et mal géolocalisées.

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J’ai donc repris les chiffres du dernier recensement disponible, malheureusement très ancien (il date de 2001) pour expérimenter une méthode de visualisation — assez classique en fait — en bandes alternées. Le principe est très simple : chaque bande est proportionnelle au pourcentage d’une nationalité dans une région. Chaque séquence représente 100 % de la population ; on la reproduit autant de fois que nécessaire pour couvrir l’ensemble du territoire de la région. Comme il n’était pas possible à cette échelle de représenter toutes les nationalités, je n’ai retenu que les deux, trois ou quatre premières et regroupé le reste dans une catégorie « autres nationalités ».

#ukraine #cartographie #visualisation #perception #nationalités #minorités #crimée #russie #langues

This one map helps explain Ukraine’s protests

Ukraine has been wracked by protests for two-plus weeks over President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to reject a deal for closer integration with the European Union. Thousands of protesters in the capital city of Kiev are calling for Yanukovych to step down.

This is a potentially big moment for Ukraine, as well as for Europe: Russian President Vladimir Putin had been pressuring Yanukovych to quit the EU deal and join with a Moscow-led trade union of former Soviet states instead. Will Ukraine’s future be with Russia or with Europe?

What’s happening in Ukraine is complicated and driven by many factors: the country’s history as an unhappy component of the Soviet Union, its deep economic woes, a sense of cultural fondness for the West, wide discontent with government corruption, two decades of divided politics and a sense that Yanukovych caved to Putin.

No single datapoint could capture or explain all of that. But the map below comes perhaps as close as anything could. It shows Ukraine, color-coded by the country’s major ethnic and linguistic divisions. Below, I explain why this map is so important and why it helps to tell Ukraine’s story. The short version: Ukraine’s politics have long been divided into two major factions by the country’s demographics. What’s happening right now is in many ways a product of that division, which has never really been reconciled.

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►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/09/this-one-map-helps-explain-ukraines-protests

#carte #cartographie #visualisation #Ukraine

A surprising map of the countries that are most and least welcoming to foreigners

Buried several hundred pages into a new World Economic Forum report on global tourism, past the sections on air travel infrastructure and physician density (by which they mean the number of physicians per capita, not the mass-per-cubic-meter of individual doctors), are some very interesting numbers. The WEF has compiled survey data from 140 countries estimating the attitude of each countries’ population toward foreign visitors.

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▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/03/21/a-fascinating-map-of-countries-color-coded-by-their-openness-to-fore

#carte #cartographie #visualisation #étrangers #welcome #accueil

How the Internet is killing the world’s languages
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/04/how-the-internet-is-killing-the-worlds-languages

Less than five percent of current world languages are in use online, according to a recent study by prominent linguist András Kornai — and the Internet may be helping the other 95 percent to their graves.

Those startling conclusions come from a paper published in the journal PLOSOne in October titled, appropriately, “Digital Language Death.” The study sought to answer a question that’s both inherently fascinating and little-discussed: How many languages exist online? (And, on the flip side, how many don’t?)

#langue

7 ridiculous restrictions on women’s rights around the world
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/27/7-ridiculous-restrictions-on-womens-rights-around-the-world

With Saudi Arabian women behind the wheel since Saturday to protest their country’s refusal to grant driver’s licenses to women, they’re challenging not only long-standing restriction, but also a the larger system of Saudi Arabian gender-based laws, some of the harshest in the world.

According to one measurement, though, there are actually several countries that rank lower on women;s rights than Saudi Arabia. The World Economic Forum, which publishes the preeminent ranking on gender gap issues, ranked Saudi Arabia 10th from the bottom in its 2013 report — ahead of Mali, Morocco, Iran, Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Syria, Chad, Pakistan and Yemen. Women’s rights abuses are by no means limited to North Africa, West Africa or the Middle East, though that’s where we tend to hear such stories most frequently.

une tite #carto

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Study: Half a million Iraqis died from war-related causes since #US invasion
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/study-claims-half-million-iraqis-died-war-related-causes-us-invas

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An Iraqi man visits the grave of a loved one at a cemetery in the capital Baghdad during the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday or “The Feast of Sacrifice” on October 15, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad al-Rubaye)

Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in #Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday. That toll is far higher than the nearly 115,000 violent civilian deaths (...)

#Top_News

#Map: These are the cities that #climate_change will hit first
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/09/map-these-are-the-cities-that-climate-change-will-hit-first

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#climat #cartographie

Azerbaïdjan : la bourde de la présidence qui publie les résultats avant l’élection - Infos - Replay

▻http://videos.tf1.fr/infos/2013/azerbaidjan-la-bourde-de-la-presidence-qui-publie-les-resultats-8288491.h

Ah bon ? c’est vraiment arrivé ?

L’élection présidentielle en Azerbaïdjan remportée mercredi par le président sortant Ilham Aliev a été marquée par d’"importants problèmes", a déclaré jeudi la mission d’observateurs de l’Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe. Explications avec Benoît Gallerey.

#azerbaidjan #caucase

3 U.S. lawmakers who have generated controversy for their statements about Islam and Muslim Americans released a video praising the Egyptian military and thanking it for staging the July 3 and subsequent crackdowns against their “common enemy,” the Muslim Brotherhood.

▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/07/heres-michele-bachmann-thanking-the-egyptian-military-for-the-coup-a

The video, apparently taken a few hours after meeting with coup leader General Abdel Fatah el-Sissi in Cairo, features Rep. Michele Bachmann reading a statement to the camera. She’s flanked by Reps. Steve King and Louie Gohmert.
The video, posted below, is a doozy. Bachmann, presumably supported by King and Gohmert, offers fulsome praise for the coup and the military-led government’s subsequent actions, describing its crackdowns against sit-ins and demonstrations as “the front lines” in “the war on terrorism.” She described the Muslim Brotherhood as a common enemy and a “great evil,” implying that it had been responsible for the attacks against the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. King and Gohmert offered similar but more tempered remarks.
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“I want to assure the people of Egypt that I, as a member of Congress, will stand strong in support of continuing military support, United States support financially, to stand for the military in Egypt,” she said. “We know that you have been a partner. You’ve been a partner in the war on terrorism. You’ve acted bravely here on the front lines.”

#USA #Egypt #army #terrorism

Teju Cole’s 9 questions about Britain you were too embarrassed to ask
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/03/teju-coles-9-questions-about-britain-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask

Last week, as the U.S. signaled it may launch limited strikes against Syria as punishment for allegedly using chemical weapons, I posted an explainer titled “9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask.”

On Sunday, novelist Teju Cole, whom I’ve had the privilege of editing, parodied it on Twitter. His composition, which we might call “9 questions about Britain you were too embarrassed to ask,” is posted below. Following it is a brief Q&A I did over e-mail with Cole, who was writing from Australia.

Some say incinerating Buckingham Palace would send a message and next time Britain will think twice before selling nerve gas. I don’t know.

Teju Cole’s 9 questions about Britain you were too embarrassed to ask
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/03/teju-coles-9-questions-about-britain-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask

Teju Cole parodie #Max_Fisher, qui l’interviewe.

The one map that shows why Syria is so complicated

« Non, cette carte n’est pas une blague »

▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/27/the-one-map-that-shows-why-syria-is-so-complicated

Après le petit texte qui explique que le Proche-Orient c’est compliqué, puis le graphique qui explique que le Proche-Orient c’est compliqué, voici la CARTE qui explique que la Syrie (et le Proche-Orient) c’est compliqué :

Now that the United States is strongly signaling that it will lead some form of limited offshore strikes against Syria in response to suspected chemical weapons attacks on civilians, one point you’re going to hear repeated over and over about the country is that it’s complicated. And that’s no joke, as the above map helps to drive home.

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The Middle East, explained in one (sort of terrifying) chart

Après le petit texte (posté deux fois sur seenthis) expliquant que oui, le Proche-Orient c’est compliqué, voici le graphique qui explique aussi que, oui, le Proche-Orient c’est compliqué.

►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/26/the-middle-east-explained-in-one-sort-of-terrifying-chart

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What could be simpler than the Middle East? A well-known Egyptian blogger who writes under the pseudonym The Big Pharaoh put together this chart laying out the region’s rivalries and alliances. He’s kindly granted me permission to post it, so that Americans might better understand the region. The joke is that it’s not a joke; this is actually pretty accurate.

#proche-orient #visualisation #graphique #infographie #cartographie

Qui aime qui au Proche-Orient ?

The Middle East Explained In One Excellent Letter To The Editor

▻http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/the-middle-east-explained-in-one-excellent-letter-to-the-edi

The Middle East Explained In One Excellent Letter To The Editor

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#proche-orient #alliances #défiances

60% des Étatsuniens opposés à une intervention en Syrie, et seulement 9% favorables. En cas d’utilisation d’armes chimiques contre la population civile, on monte à… 25% pour, et 46% contre.
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/us-syria-crisis-usa-poll-idUSBRE97O00E20130825

About 60 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should not intervene in Syria’s civil war, while just 9 percent thought President Barack Obama should act.

[…]

The Reuters/Ipsos poll, taken August 19-23, found that 25 percent of Americans would support U.S. intervention if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces used chemicals to attack civilians, while 46 percent would oppose it.

Alors évidemment, sans surprise : Syrie : Obama et Cameron examinent des options militaires
▻http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/syrie-obama-et-cameron-examinent-des-options-militaires-25-08-2013-1717085_2

De son côté, le président Obama s’est fait présenter toute la journée à la Maison Blanche les possibles opérations militaires qui pourraient être déclenchées contre la Syrie. « Le président a assisté à l’exposé détaillé qu’il avait demandé sur la palette d’options potentielles devant préparer les Etats-Unis et la communauté internationale à répondre à l’utilisation d’armes chimiques », a indiqué la présidence à l’issue d’une réunion autour de Barack Obama, en présence du vice-président Joe Biden et des plus hauts responsables gouvernementaux, militaires et du renseignement du pays.

Le président américain est sous pression depuis que l’opposition syrienne a accusé le régime, avec des photos et vidéos qui ont fait le tour du monde, d’avoir perpétré le 21 août une attaque de grande ampleur aux armes chimiques qui aurait fait au moins 1.000 morts.

Note la tournure typiquement journalistique : Obama serait « sous pression ». Sous pression des 9% d’Américains favorables à l’intervention ?

Bien ambitieux. #maps #cartes

▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/12/40-maps-that-explain-the-world

Kerry : l’armée égyptienne a déposé Morsi pour « rétablir la démocratie »

▻http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/08/01/kerry-l-armee-egyptienne-a-depose-morsi-pour-retablir-la-democratie_3456637_

Le secrétaire d’Etat américain, John Kerry, a jugé jeudi 1er août que l’armée égyptienne avait déposé le président Mohamed Morsi début juillet dans le but de rétablir la démocratie. M. Kerry est en visite au Pakistan et était interrogé par une télévision privée pakistanaise sur la position ambiguë des Etats-Unis face à la crise politique en Egypte depuis que le président Morsi, élu au printemps 2012, a été renversé par l’armée le 3 juillet.

John Kerry chose a strange country from which to defend Egypt’s military takeover

▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/01/john-kerry-chose-a-strange-country-from-which-to-defend-egypts-milit

The fact that the State Department still wants to avoid calling this a coup is not surprising, but Kerry’s strongly worded defense of the military takeover as “restoring democracy” is. Most surprising of all where he said it : Pakistan.

#USA #Egypte #Kerry #Pakistan #armée #army #coup

The #Africa driven demographic future of the Earth in nine charts :
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/16/the-amazing-surprising-africa-driven-demographic-future-of-the-earth-in-9-charts/?print=1

The seven people to follow on Twitter for Egypt news and analysis
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/03/the-seven-people-to-follow-on-twitter-for-egypt-news-and-analysis

Dans une liste « des 7 personnes à suivre » concernant les événements en Egypte, le Washington Post ne met aucun... Égyptien, puis en ajoute après des railleries sur Twitter. ▻https://twitter.com/irevolt/status/352550889313140736

Washington Post creates list of ’people to follow’ for news/analysis on Egypt; guess how many are Egyptian?

▻https://twitter.com/KareemLailah/status/351767296450105344

Oh Lord! The beautiful #Alexandria now #Egypt

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@momen81 @KareemLailah this picture was yesterday in alexandria not today by a photographer named Alaa el basha #correction