Power of Data Visualization

Initial public offerings - when companies first make their stocks available for sale to the public—can generate incredible wealth. Last month, in the midst of a faltering economy, the Agricultural Bank of China sold $19.2 billion dollars worth of stock on its first day available, making it the third largest IPO in history. On August 5, traders will be able to excercise options that would count towards the IPO, perhaps pushing the ABC to the top of this list. Until then, this is a list of the largest IPOs in history in U.S. dollars.

In the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, many have pointed to increased legalization or decriminalization of marijuana as being an untapped resource for taxation, and a source of new small business growth and employment. It is estimated that nearly $1 billion per year could be generated in marijuana production upon nationwide legalization with a flat 10% tax on producers. This, of course, coupled with a significant drop in the cost of policing and prosecuting the use of marijuana could lead to net savings.

via blog.turbotax.intuit.com

Boner pills hard facts.

Another Inception infographic. The idea was to show that as the characters plunge into the deeper layers of dreams, time seems to pass 20 times slower. The thickness of layers refers to the perception of time at each level.

This infographic is in Portuguese language.

Apple recently opened doors to its newest and largest store in London's Covent Garden. The 10-year-old retail phenomenon is becoming a monster. Each store brings in on average $35.9 million in sales, which continues to rise. And visitors continue to mob them.

Love it or hate it, Wikipedia seems to be an ever growing, increasingly popular fixture of the net (and it seems that many more people love it than hate it these days).

Meetings are often a waste of time in the Enterprise. Every employee has sat in countless meetings that drone on – meetings where you’re not really needed, meetings about mundane details of the business, even meetings to plan for future meetings. With an estimated 11 million formal meetings per day in the United States, corporate America has been held hostage by 3 billion meetings per year. This Infographic illustrates it nicely.

Don’t know whether you’re in the real world or a dream? Consult the flowchart.

Are you a Foursquare freak? Then congratulations! WeePlaces is a nifty web app that lets you visualize your entire Foursquare history as a timelapse video. All you have to do is log-in to Foursquare via WeePlaces, and it automatically scrapes that data and creates your very own map:

New York Yankees. The Best Team in Baseball? Yes.