Tag: visualization
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Where are online workers located? The international division of digital gig work
11 July 2017
Author:Online Labour Index top occupation by country, 1-6 July 2017 The Internet has created a global market for digitally delivered freelance work, which is currently growing rapidly. Our new ...
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Measuring the supply of digital labour: How the OLI worker supplement is constructed
11 July 2017
Author:As more and more tasks and projects are transacted via online platforms and apps, national governments and statistical agencies face increasing challenges in tracking the growth of this phenomenon. ...
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The online gig economy grew 26% over the past year
10 July 2017
Author:Online Labour Index, July 2016 – June 2017 (28-day moving average) Online freelancing and crowdwork are some of the terms used for temporary and project-based work conducted remotely over ...
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Online Labour Index wins in a University data visualisation competition
29 June 2017
Author:We are happy to announce that the Online Labour Index won the first prize in an annual OxTALENT competition organised by the University of Oxford IT services in the ...
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Variable geographies of protest among online gig workers
13 February 2017
Author:Millions of people across the planet use online labour platforms to make their living as part of the global gig or platform economy. One part of the iLabour project ...
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Mapping the demand for online labour
27 October 2016
Author:Our colleagues over at the Geonet project have drawn some wonderful maps based on our Online Labour Index country data. The open vacancies are plotted in the figure below. As ...
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How is online work classified in the OLI?
21 September 2016
Author:The Online Labour Index is an index measuring the changes in the volume of projects transacted in major online platforms. As a part of OLI, we also report a breakdown ...
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Is the online gig economy growing?
20 September 2016
Author:Online Labour Index, May-September 2016 (28-day moving average) Employers and workers are increasingly using online platforms to engage in project- or task-based freelance work delivered over the Internet. This ...
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Which countries and occupations are embracing the online gig economy?
19 September 2016
Author:The Online Labour Index (OLI) is a new economic indicator that provides an online labour market equivalent of conventional labour market statistics. It is available online as an interactive visualization ...
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Interactive map of Twitter mentions in geotagged tweets
12 January 2013
Author:I recently had the pleasure of building my first interactive map visualization using Leaflet with Joshua R. Melville and the Floatingsheep team, who have written more about the methodology. ...
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Interactive Maps
5 November 2012
Author:Update: 6 November 2012 – US map featured in the Guardian. I’ve not blogged for a while on this site, because I’ve been doing lots of blogging on the ...
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Need your vote (if .ac.uk email)! — Interactive visualization development
23 March 2012
Author:Update: 25 June 2012 The project has been choosen by JISC to receive funding. Further information on the project and status updates will be communicated via the InteractiveVis project ...
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