Power of Data Visualization

The Australian Bureau of Statistics put together an interactive movie called Spotlight, which helps its citizens understand the data a little better.

Spotlight takes some of the data from the last Census - conducted in 2006 - and turns it into a simple interactive movie, to show just a few of the interesting things that the Census can tell us about Australia's people and population.

Once you've explored Spotlight, you can create an infographic of your own (above is mine) - a personalised snapshot of your own (only for Australians) numbers that you can share with friends.

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Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.

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This infographic is about upcoming sci-fi action thriller Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga. The film tells the story of a soldier who "wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train".

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This created by Foursquare.com mapped out opening weekend movie check-ins.

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Star Wars episode IV retold with icons by digital designer Wayne Dorrington from UK.

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A planetary map of the entire Star Wars universe.

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The Sequel Map that was made to try and determine which sequels were better/worse than the original?

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Avatar, Toy Story 3, and Inception have remarkable runs.

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With the worldwide population expected to exceed seven billion in 2011, National Geographic magazine offers a 7-part series examining specific challenges and solutions to the issues we face. The magazine introduces the series with its January cover story "7 Billion," offering a broad overview of demographic trends that got us to today and will impact us all tomorrow. The first in-depth story will appear in the March issue, focusing on humans' impact on the planet's geology. Other stories will follow throughout 2011.

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For the Sony Pictures James L. Brooks romantic comedy, Jetset created a fun, animated interactive infographic that helps you decide if you’re in love, trouble, denial or limbo. This “deciding tree” works as a desktop wallpaper.