Development Goals Discussed On Twitter

Global Pulse has released an impressive interactive presentation exploring how the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals are beingness discussed on social media.

In the twelvemonth 2000 the UN agreed to laid upwards 8 Millennium Development Goals. The 8 MDGs were meant to supply a framework from which to halve poverty but about the the world past times 2015. As that deadline approaches Global Pulse and the Millennium Campaign has released Unglobal Pulse, to explore how unlike countries convey been discussing topics related to these goals on Twitter.

This interactive visualization shows the 20 countries which convey proportionately tweeted the most almost each topic. The visualization includes a slap-up interactive globe. Select whatsoever of the topics inwards the globe sidebar too the globe spins to demo the 20 countries that convey tweeted the most almost the topic.


Unglobal Pulse too features a Google Map equally business office of the interactive visualization. The map provides a oestrus map stance of each of the MDG topics. If you lot lead a theme inwards the sidebar a oestrus map displays the intensity of the unwrap of Tweets made but about the theme inwards each province of the world. You tin too click on private countries to stance the unwrap of Tweets made inwards the province for each of the topics.