Power of Data Visualization

The global economic crisis has had little impact on world military spending in 2009.  Nine of the top 10 spenders increased military spending in 2009.

There are some awesome innovations in light bulbs, and making changes to the way you light your house can have a powerful impact on your energy bills and the environment. Energy saving bulbs are promising green technology, from CFLs to LEDs and more. See how light bulbs stack up to each other.

This infographic will show you just how bad America is doing in all aspects of higher learning, as well as comparisons with other countries. Each state has been given a report card, so brace yourself and get ready for the teacher’s red pen!

Rate Rush spent the past two weeks collecting data and studying trends between popular links on Digg and Reddit.

Researchers say countries are happier because of the society and culture around them. The corporate world learned that lesson long ago. A new study conducted by researchers at Gallup surveyed thousands of respondents over 150 countries, between 2005 and 2009, in an attempt to measure two types of well being.

Porn, coffee, the internet, alcohol....

Amazon announced that its June 2010 Kindle e-book sales nearly doubled its hardcover book sales (180% higher). While many of those e-books were self-published books for as low as $1 (and even though traditional paperbacks are still selling wildly), it looks more and more like e-books may become the dominant book format in not too long.

This infographic done by Chris Smith Graphic Design final year student of university at The University of Wales, Newport in 2010

This particular infographic is about his love for listening to music, it shows his iPod on the right hand side, with the coloured rings showing how mnay singles, albums and videos I have stored on there, and the weights hanging from the coloured rings represent the equivelant weight if I carried around the music on cassettes, LP's or CD's.

On the left it shows his external HDD where I store the original copies of his files, with the coloured rings still representing the number of singles, CD's etc, but this time instead of weights attached to the rings, there are small clocks showing the time it took me to download the music over the internet to his pc.