Visualizing Water Systems

This interactive visualization shows how water moves through some of Melbourne's natural and built water system over a decade (2000-2010). Each circle presents a year of data, with each coloured line representing one day in that year, to be read in a clockwise direction. It is designed by Greg More, OOM Creative from Australia. He is an international expert in the area of digital environment design.

Live demo: Flow motion
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Global Mood Clocks

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:

via www.greycanada.com
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In Investing: When You Start And When You Finish

This chart shows annualized returns for the S.& P. 500 for every starting year and every ending year since 1920 — nearly 4,000 combinations in all. READ ACROSS THE CHART to see how money invested in a given year performed, depending on when it was withdrawn.

via www.nytimes.com

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How A Toddler Learns To Talk?

A massive data-collection effort reveals patterns in the ways that children learn language.

The MIT Media Lab's Human Speechome Project has collected more than 80,000 hours of video and 120,000 hours of audio recordings documenting the first two years of a child's life. The result is a massive database of parent-child interactions, illustrated in this graphic. Click on any word below to see when the child learned it and how often the child and his parents used it.

via www.forbes.com
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What's Next for WikiLeaks?

The news about WikiLeaks is developing every day. good.is's latest infographic should give you all you need to know about the major players in the quest to either keep the site running or shut it down.

If you don't know what is WikiLeaks?. Sweden's public service television, SVT, is releasing this one-hour documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks.

via awesome.good.is

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Migration of Receipts

This project displays receipt trash found over a 48 hour blitz in Baltimore City, Maryland. The collection area was focused on the neighborhoods of Charles Village, Bolton Hill, Downtown and the Inner Harbor. Whether propelled by human movement or nature, the receipts have made a migration from the retail location to the found location. Visit website here.

via cameronzotter.com

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