Power of Data Visualization

IBM's THINK Exhibit opened this weekend in New York at Lincoln Center. Featuring live data visualization, a first-of-a-kind immersive film across 40 screens and giant interactive stations, the exhibit explores how we can make the world work better.

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What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world?

Five+ years of Kiva loan activity, in full color. Thanks to all the lenders, borrowers, partners, and team members who brightened this map - and helped to change lives in the process.

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The man behind the Norway bombings and shootings wrote a link-filled manifesto. To show the vast spread of websites he cites, and how they linked to each other, Guardian News turned to French visualisers Linkfluence.

This map shows those relationships between sites. To appear on it does not make anyone responsible for Breivik's actions. Rather it shows how a conspiracist mind can twist perfectly normal stories into a threatening and dangerous pattern.

For each site on the map, you click the dot to go there directly - and it then illuminates all links to other sites. The sites have been divided by category - click on the icon with three circles in the right-hand corner to see the sites grouped. Yellow links show who the site has linked to; red links show who has linked to it

via www.guardian.co.uk
(click here for interactive version)

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Interesting unless you already knew these: sitting closer to the mirror gives you smaller blind spots; sitting farther from the right side is why you need “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” (a curved mirror).

via theory.stanford.edu
(click here to try it yourself)

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An illustration of United States of America's debt problems; with national debt and unfunded liablities put into perspective. Showing One Million, 1 Trillion, 15 Trillion, 14.294 Trillion, 114.5 Trillion

via www.wtfnoway.com

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6 weeks ago, Postgrad.com teamed up with information designer, David McCandless launched a data visualisation competition with David McCandless.  The competition was based on some data that David had collected about the ethnicity of student attending elite universities in the UK. The winners has been announced.

To see all entries Click here

Here is the 1st Place Winner: Visualization made by Raphael Halloran.
Live interactive demo: live

Live interactive demo: live

via Mark from EpicGraphic.com

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Trash Track visualizes individual traces of trash objects. Everyday objects at some point in their life cycle are declared of no more use by their owners and cross the fine line between being a proudly owned utility item and a trash object.

via senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack

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peoplemov.in - A visualization of migration flows.

via peoplemov.in
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