Power of Data Visualization

In most countries today, Facebook is either the most popular, or second or third most popular website. The social network has reached such widespread popularity that it can these days only really be compared to Google, the only other company that can brag about a similar reach.

But Facebook isn’t in the top everywhere. There are still several countries where Facebook hasn’t been able to reach a dominant position. Which countries?

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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?.

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Discover the world’s first Global Mood Clocks, that in addition to telling time, reflect the “mood” of a city by showing the dominant colour from the latest location-tagged photo uploads to Flickr and the top Google search and Twitter trending keywords, all in real time. The app, created by Grey Canada, is a virtual update to the classic office “wall of clocks” decor that displays local time for multiple global cities. The Mac & PC Adobe AIR version makes for a sharp looking office desktop background, while keeping users up to speed on what's happening in a diverse selection of cities around the world. Global Mood Clocks will be released by the Apple app store for iPhone in January 2011.

Here is the launch video:

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There are still notable differences by generation in online activities, but the dominance of the Millennial generation that Pew Research Center documented in their first “Generations” report in 2009 has slipped in many activities.

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This map is based on facebook friendship map. Black indicates connections between facebook friends and red areas indicate a population density of over 2 person per square mile.

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No surprise here, compared to people born before 1975, people born after 1984 are twice as likely to breakup via the digital world, twice as likely to breakup over the phone and far less likely to decide to talk it out over coffee.

This information was collected using the publicly accessible, now defunct, polling app on Facebook, on which the question was asked to single members: "How did you end your last relationship"

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Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. There are social solutions to just about every need.

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Rapleaf wants every person to be able to have a meaningful, personalized online experience. To achieve this, Rapleaf helps leading businesses personalize customer interactions through deeper customer insight. The San Francisco based company also brings new and effective data segments to the online marketplace to help advertisers reach their ideal audience. WSJ explained how the system works and here is an example data RapLeaf had on one user.

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GlobalWebIndex goes beyond conventional market research reports and one off studies. Take control of the largest ongoing market research data set on the web ever compiled, with our revolutionary online tool.

Check out their free tool that gives you a chance to play with 3 areas in their  data set. This is real data and allows you to see how to customise your view by audience. In the full platform we provide over 500 elements for you to do this:

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This infographic made by Juan Pablo Campusano graphic designer from Chile, Santiago. It shows us a month of the Twitter explosion in Chile right after the earthquake hit the country. He had the experience to live it, and the Twitter community made a strong impact by delivering information an movilizing people to help the ones who received no help.

Sadly, to this day there are still lots of people without a place to live.

You can find more of Juan Pablo Campusano creative work from behance.

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