Power of Data Visualization

Andreas Rocha conceptual artists from Lisbon / Portugal created this beautiful Green World. If you like this art, also check out his gallery (some of my favourite here here here )

via www.andreasrocha.com

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Isolines are based upon an interpolated surface generated from approximately 1.5 million geocoded public posts on Twitter between March 9th and April 12th, 2010. These data represent only a sample of all posts made during that period. Isolines are based upon the average number of profanities found in the 500 nearest data points, in order to compensate for low population areas.

via Daniel Huffman

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Foursquare.com just released an infographic outlining their tremendous 3400% growth in the past year.

via blog.foursquare.com

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Sysomos.com, social media monitoring and analytics company decided to take a closer look into how social media was used during the Queensland, Australia floods?.

If you’d like to donate you can click here to donate to the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal

via blog.sysomos.com

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World According to Americans.

via xkcd.com

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LinkedIn Analytics Team decided to take a crack at finding the most clichéd and overused phrases for the past year using over 85 million LinkedIn profiles.  Here are their most overused buzzword in LinkedIn.com Profiles in 11 countries – 2010

via chartsbin.com via blog.linkedin.com

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A new view of the United States based on the distribution of common last names shows centuries of history and echoes some of America's great immigration sagas. To compile this data, geographers at University College London used phone directories to find the predominant surnames in each state. Software then identified the probable provenances of the 181 names that emerged.

via ngm.nationalgeographic.com
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A planetary map of the entire Star Wars universe.

via io9.com

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It has long been true that California on its own would rank as one of the biggest economies of the world. These days, it would rank eighth, falling between Italy and Brazil on a nominal exchange-rate basis.

But how do other American states compare with other countries?

via  www.economist.com

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Visualizations created using Polymaps (http://polymaps.org) and processingjs (http://processingjs.org/)

via twitter.com

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