Power of Data Visualization

Adam Winnik illustrator from Sheridan College in Ontario produced this animation for his final thesis piece.

The first time I heard this excerpt from Carl Sagan's book "Pale Blue Dot" it literally changed my life, and I hope it does for you too. Enjoy, says Adam Winnik.

Written and Narrated: Carl Sagan
Music: Hans Zimmer "You're So Cool"
Art and Animation: Adam Winnik

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Cascade allows for precise analysis of the structures which underly sharing activity on the web.

This first-of-its-kind tool links browsing behavior on a site to sharing activity to construct a detailed picture of how information propagates through the social media space. While initially applied to New York Times stories and information, the tool and its underlying logic may be applied to any publisher or brand interested in understanding how its messages are shared.

Cascade was developed by R&D using open source tools including Processing and MongoDB.

Project Home Page: http://nytlabs.com/projects/cascade.html

Video Demo: http://nytlabs.com/projects/movies/projectcascade.ogv

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Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. Imagine walking for 3 hours everyday to collect water

New animation made for charitywater.org

Written by charity: water + Jonathan Jarvis
Animation by Jonathan Jarvis
Voiceover by Kristen Bell
Score and sound effects by Douglas Kaufman

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Beautiful map of the world religions.

via mapsforhumans.com

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This colorful infographic helps detail the complex story of solar power and provides additional context for GE’s (General Electric Company) latest product in solar technology, the most efficient thin film solar panel created to date. Designed by JESS3

via visualization.geblogs.com

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Creative advertisement for one of the largest independent global investment managers, Invesco Ltd.

Agency: Leo Burnett Chicago
Global Creative Director: Mark Tutssel
Executive Creative Director: Susan Credle
Creative Director: Sarah Block & Eric Routenberg
Art Director: Sarah Block
Copywriter: Eric Routenberg
Executive Producer: Ron Nelken
Producer: Sean Pinney
Production Company: Anonymous Content
Director: Markus Walter
VFX/SPX: Method
Editorial: White House
Editor: Rick Lawley

via flowingdata.com

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Last year (in April, 2010), the World Bank issued a challenge to software developers from across the globe to take on some of the world’s most pressing development problems by creating digital apps using the Bank’s freely available data. The response was overwhelming, with 107 entries from 36 countries across six continents, and nearly a third from Africa. A total of $55,000 was awarded in cash prizes to competition winners.

The three winning apps all feature unique approaches to pressing development challenges:

First Prize Winner $15,000 USD- StatPlanet World Bank (Australia):  With this powerful app, you can visualize and compare country and regional performance over time.

Live demo: http://www.statplanet.org/wb/statplanet.html?y=1990-2010

Second Prize Winner $10,000 USD- Development Timelines (France): Development Timelines lets you put global development data into historical context and better understand how events such as war, education reforms, or economic booms and busts, affect progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Live demo: http://devtimelines.appspot.com/#

Third Prize Winner $5,000 USD- Yourtopia - Development beyond GDP (Germany): This interactive app allows you to sum up human development according to your own criteria and, through a short quiz, choose how important different dimensions of development are to you.
Live demo: http://www.yourtopia.net/

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This interactive visualization shows how water moves through some of Melbourne's natural and built water system over a decade (2000-2010). Each circle presents a year of data, with each coloured line representing one day in that year, to be read in a clockwise direction. It is designed by Greg More, OOM Creative from Australia. He is an international expert in the area of digital environment design.

Live demo: Flow motion
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Whether you are a student, astronomy fan or an accidental browser you will love this real-time celestial positions with planets and constellations moving over the night sky.

You can try changing of various parameters for a better understanding of happenings in our Solar System and the Universe.

via www.solarsystemscope.com
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This animation shows the global pattern of human land use over the last eight thousand years, a time when human populations began expanding following the origins of agriculture.

via www.good.is

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