Power of Data Visualization

Do horoscopes really all just say the same thing? David McCandless from Information Is Beautiful scraped & analysed 22,000 to see.

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Last week Chris McDowall informatics researcher from New Zealand hooked a computer up to the Twitter data firehose and, over the course of a day and a bit, grabbed every tweet that had geographic coordinates. I wrote a Python script to parse the 2GB of JSON files and used Matplotlib with the Basemap extension to animate 25 hours of data on a world map. The resulting animation plots over 530,000 tweets — and remember these are just tweets with geo-coordinates.

He recommend you full-screen this video, turn scaling off and high definition on.

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A woman's life cycle can sometimes seem like an obstacle course in which she much dodge an increasing number of health threats. In reality, as medical experts point out, every stage in a woman's life has its health benefits.

 by Megan Jaegerman / www.nytimes.com

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It's crawling with life down there. A remote expedition to the deepest layer of the Earth's oceanic crust has revealed a new ecosystem living over a kilometre beneath our feet. It is the first time that life has been found in the crust's deepest layer, and an analysis of the new biosphere suggests life could exist lower still.

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Maybe you didn't learn this in grammar school, but if you have a child, chances are you learned from experience.

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Life: venn diagram

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This is a kinetic typography about 'The Gift of Generosity' made by epipheostudios.

Life is a gift, a blessing. And yet we get so caught up in the day to day that we forget to pass that blessing along. Our challenge: To use text in a dynamic way to reawaken in us a thankfulness for life and a desire to pass our blessings along. Letting the story of our blessing become the story of someone else's blessing.

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This infographic made by Cathy Chedrawi. She is an American/Lebanese graphic designer from United States, Texas, Austin. It is about some memories she have had from some different places she have called "home".

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Utilising cutting edge techniques and taking advantage of market-leading expertise, Digital Life offers both a lens on the digital world and the frameworks required to make actionable business decisions within it. It can be used to drive global strategies or inform local tactics.

The interactive data dashboard allows users to compare pairs of countries with each other, in attributes such as Internet penetration, digital lifestyles and daily activities, etc.

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This infographic is made by Jason Christian Visual Artist / Graphic Designer from United States, Missouri, Springfield. Flowchart for a typical day of his life (while in college).

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