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The Journey of Mankind<\/a> is a simple timeline & world map that illustrates the spread of modern humans out of Africa; it’s amazing to me how much detail we know about this process, down to the catastrophic effects of the explosion of Mt. Toba<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> reliably has good data visualization graphics.\u00a0 Two examples: “An Accounting of Daily Gun Deaths<\/a>“, by Bill Marsh, and an interactive (Google Maps based) homicide map<\/a> of the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

Juice Analytics has a treemap-based visualization of the US federal government’s stimulus package<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A German energy company is promoting recycling with a clever spam visualization tool<\/a>.\u00a0 Send them your spam email and watch them recycle it into something beautiful.\u00a0 Or at least something else.<\/p>\n

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Niel Bornstein turned me onto Nathan Yau’s Flowing Data<\/a> (above), which uses Twitter<\/a> to log information that can then be analyzed and presented in a variety of ways.\u00a0 I’m experimenting with it now.<\/p>\n

Good Data has an interesting, and free, analytical service<\/a> for Amazon’s Cloudfront <\/a>content delivery network with canned reports; presumably this can be extended to other cloud services.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Widgenie<\/a> provides tools for visualization for all kinds of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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