Power of Data Visualization

For their latest endeavor called Map Your Moves, the "Brian Lehrer Show" asked graphic designers and "data visualization gurus" to create maps and charts from the data about moving trends. This resulted in some visually stunning graphs and overviews of New York City.

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Designed by Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, in late 1980s - early 1990s as a modernized version of the T-72 tank

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The Story of Bottled Water, releasing March 22, 2010 on storyofbottledwater.org, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over seven minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to ‘take back the tap,’ not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.

Falling off chairs caused more deaths than ladders, beds and trees in 2004 - Who new? So be careful next time you're sitting on your favourite rickety old chair, or maybe changing that hard to reach light bulb.

via www.graphadelic.com

This is a visualization of the network packets of a YouTube video, slowed down 12 times. You can clearly see the handshake, some odd client/server negotiation, and the full ramp-up.

Created using Packet Flight: github.com/aristus/packet-flight

Each flying circle represents a network packet. The small green ones are control packets: ACK, SYN, etc. The larger blue ones are data packets.

The data is from a real tcpdump of the first 4 seconds of Rick Astley's music video.

Graph Your Inbox is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to graph Gmail activity over time. You can use it to visualize your communication with friends, your Facebook activity, when you purchased items on Amazon or how often you use certain words or phrases. We provide the same search functionality used by Gmail, but instead of a list of messages we show you a graph of your email trends over time.

Download it here.

Note: Graph Your Inbox is in no way associated with Gmail. Gmail is a registered trademark of Google, Inc. This extension does not save any personal information and does not send any personal information to any server. It does not request or record your email password. This extension does not modify the Gmail website or your email in any way.

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How Should You Invest Your Money?

via www.visualeconomics.com

Computer and video games have come a long way since the days of Pac-Man and Frogger, and so have those who play them. Today's video games are enjoyed by players all ages and backgrounds and parents are increasingly involved in making sure that the ones their children play are age-appropriate. Here's a list of some key statistics related to the video game industry, some of which might really surprise you!

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First off, the cost of production for most producers is significantly higher than that. The easy, cheap oil is gone. That’s why we are drilling a mile deep for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. But the other reason that oil prices aren’t going down soon is because demand has been recovering.

via www.consumerenergyreport.com

Have we become a society of whiners when it comes to information overload? The problem is that people don't have tools to filter information down to the most useful bits with minimal effort. The only choices we have right now are to take everything through our various media sources or shut ourselves off from potential opportunities. Of course that's a false choice because when we let ourselves be inundated by information we miss things anyway--time is the ultimate arbiter of attention.

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