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World Bank “Open Data” Initiative
7 May 2010The World Bank has recently expanded public access to their datasets on a huge scale (many previously only available by subscription). You can view data by country or topic, create a map out of any indicator, download the raw data, and there’s even an iphone app. They are also reaching out to developers to create additional tools and apps. Unlike many UN/WB/IMF online databases, this one is intuitive and easy to explore. (List of available datasets)
Sovereign Credit Ratings?
6 May 2010Where do they come from and what do they mean. Note: a complete list of ratings is at the bottom of the same page.
Psychological Cycles of Recessions
In: Finance Global Economy Reference Source: Ritholtz Stock Market
15 Apr 2010Barry Ritholtz has pulled together a great collection of charts mapping out how we tend to view economic cycles. Check out his post for an interesting related discussion.
Many Bills: US Legislation Library
8 Apr 2010IBM has coupled with Many Eyes to create a visualization warehouse of US Congressional legislation. It’s a pretty complicated tool, so definitely watch the “quick tour”. Pick a search word and go exploring. You can explode just the relevant parts, view earlier versions, read the whole thing, and save them as favorites.
Periodic Table of Periodic Tables
24 Mar 2010
World Bank Data Visualizer
23 Mar 2010
Map Projections
10 Mar 2010A lot of people are familiar with the distortions of the standard Mercator projection, but Radical Cartography has a pretty comprehensive annotated library for browsing if you’re into that sort of thing.
Google Public Data Explorer
In: Employment Global Economy Graphic Design (general) Innovative Maps Reference Science
9 Mar 2010
Tableau Public Examples
In: Culture Employment Graphic Design (general) Reference Sports
1 Mar 2010I’ve just started playing with this new online interactive visualization tool, but it looks fantastic.
Here are some examples of what other people have produced with it:
How Inventory Affects GDP
26 Feb 2010
Supreme Court History
12 Jan 2010Comprehensive visualization of the US Supreme Court. It works best as an office poster, obviously – and can be purchased that way for your lawyer friends. It’s the first project from TimePlots – I look forward to more good things from them in the future
NYC Subway Travel Times
4 Jan 2010Enter an address on the triptrop site and a Googlemap will come up overlaid with subway travel times to various part of NYC. (via)
Google Image Searches
1 Dec 2009Several sites have noted Google’s new “Image Swirl” toy (FlowingData for example). It’s fun to play with. An example search for “Santa” is below. I would add that the standard Google image search now has a number of really cool options: you can filter by image size, dominant color, and type of image (photo/clipart/drawing – those these categories aren’t always accurate). Filtering by image size, for example, can help exclude pay-for-image library thumbnails.
Piracy Watch
12 Nov 2009As a demo for their “visual fusion” software, idvsolutions has produced an interactive map and timeline of global ocean piracy. Not bad, though bing maps seems to be having trouble integrating with it a little.
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