Power of Data Visualization

With climate conditions changing in the future, due to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, conditions for pests also change. The primary Malaria agent, the falciparum malaria parasite, will be able to spread into new areas, as displayed in this map, by 2050 using the Hadley CM2 high scenario. Other areas, not displayed in the map, will be uninhabitable by the parasite, and thus free of the pest.

via maps.grida.no

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Google launched Ngram Viewer, an experiment to let lay users and researchers search and study the waxing and waning of phrase instances over 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 that Google has indexed in its cloud computing system. There's a whole community of Ngram collection going on over at Ngrams.Tumblr.com.

via ngrams.googlelabs.com
(Click above link to check your favourite word popularity)

via http://www.postgrad.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)

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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Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

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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.

via Chris McDowall

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"

via Lee Byron

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