What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world?
Five+ years of Kiva loan activity, in full color. Thanks to all the lenders, borrowers, partners, and team members who brightened this map - and helped to change lives in the process."Create your own interactive map - Get started now - ChartsBin.com"
The man behind the Norway bombings and shootings wrote a link-filled manifesto. To show the vast spread of websites he cites, and how they linked to each other, Guardian News turned to French visualisers Linkfluence.
This map shows those relationships between sites. To appear on it does not make anyone responsible for Breivik's actions. Rather it shows how a conspiracist mind can twist perfectly normal stories into a threatening and dangerous pattern. For each site on the map, you click the dot to go there directly - and it then illuminates all links to other sites. The sites have been divided by category - click on the icon with three circles in the right-hand corner to see the sites grouped. Yellow links show who the site has linked to; red links show who has linked to itvia www.guardian.co.uk"Create your own interactive map - Get started now - ChartsBin.com"
This Facebook app saves your social activity on Facebook, analyzed and commemorated in one book to look at whenever you want.
Click here to create your free web album now: apps.facebook.com/mysocialmemories/
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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"Create your own interactive map - Get started now - ChartsBin.com"
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Probably the most interesting book ever… The Holy Bible.
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A massive data visualization tool that lets users find out how the U.S. economy is performing, including breakouts on jobs, house prices, inflation and income. The visualization was designed & developed by the editorial multimedia team of CQ-Roll Call Group, the premier political news and information provider covering congress.
The data is collected from government and non-government sources; the interactive shows all historical data and is updated live as new data is released. It also features a glossary with sources and descriptions of the data and the data is available for download in Excel format. We think it's the first interactive tool of its kind to pair up this much national and regional/state data side-by-side. It's hooked up to a database and was built in Flash. All of the components, including the graphing and mapping portions, were custom built and are fully reusable APIs.via cqeconomytracker.cq.comNote: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click above link to play with this interactive tool.
We all use twitter, write emails, skype and blog all day long. There isn’t a single day we are not going to visit websites like google, youtube, the website of our favorite newspaper or social network and browse through the web. Despite that, or actually because of it, everybody tends to use the web in a different manner.
To visualize this fact and the traces we leave on our journey through the internet and to reveal some of the hidden patterns of our everyday online life, weave magazine asked onformative to create a data visualization of the online activity of several interaction designers, artists and developers.By analyzing your personal internet traffic logfile using the custom written software you get a distinctive and unique visualization of your online activities.Collecting the Data : Download LogTool
In the 21 century, we live a large part of our lives online. Almost everything we do is reduced to bits and sent through cables around the world at light speed. But just how much data are we generating? This is a look at just some of the massive amounts of information that human beings create every day.
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