Power of Data Visualization

On Sunday night, hackers posted online a trove of data from Gawker Media’s servers, including the usernames, email addresses and passwords of more than one million registered users. The passwords were originally encrypted, but 188,279 of them were decoded and made public as part of the hack. Using that dataset, The Wall Street Journal found the 50 most-popular Gawker Media passwords:

via blogs.wsj.com

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The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page. How to design translates to users.

via www.formstack.com

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When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued Facebook intern Paul Butler curiosity was the locality of friendship. He was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. He wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them.

He began by taking a sample of about ten million (about 2%) pairs of friends from Apache Hive, Facebook's data warehouse. He combined that data with each user's current city and summed the number of friends between each pair of cities. Then he merged the data with the longitude and latitude of each city.

via www.facebook.com

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How much energy—whether electric, coal, nuclear, or otherwise—is required for a 100-watt lightbulb to run for a year, 24 hours a day?

via awesome.good.is

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The wad of money in your pocket is one form of money, but the money supply is hardly limited to that. So, where is the money, and what exactly is it?

via www.creditloan.com

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Silver is one of the most important of all precious metals. Today, owning silver as part of your portfolio seems to be a smart choice as prices have risen substantially over the past year or two and show little signs of topping out any time soon.

via www.moneychoices.com.au

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How the world searched? Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year, Zeitgeist captures the spirit of 2010.

via zeitgeist2010
(click above link to see an interactive version)

Exit (also known as State of Exit) is an annual summer music festival in the Petrovaradin Fortress of Novi Sad, Serbia. It is staged annually since 2000 and usually lasts four days.

This infographic is about statistics of EXIT Festival from 2000 to 2010. Next year Exit Festival will be held for the twelfth time, and between July 7 and 10, 2011, the two-millionth visitor will pass the festival gates :)

via Exit Festival

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The infographic illustrates the number of cellphones per capita in various countries, the rate of cellphone adoption in the U.S. over the past decade and the acceptability of certain behaviors regarding cellphone use.

via mashable.com

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Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns, tracing the path of airplanes, is beautiful! The video is the paths of air traffic over 24 Hours North America.

via www.aaronkoblin.com

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