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World Bank Data Visualizer

In: Emerging Markets Global Economy Interactive Reference

23 Mar 2010

49 Indicators for about 209 countries, accessible through a gapminder type interface.

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A 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.

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Google Public Data Explorer

In: Employment Global Economy Graphic Design (general) Innovative Maps Reference Science

9 Mar 2010

Updated tools from Google to design your own gapminder type maps, graphs, and animations. Has been updated with recent World Bank, OECD, and other datasets. (via).

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Tableau Public Examples

In: Culture Employment Graphic Design (general) Reference Sports

1 Mar 2010

I’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:

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How Inventory Affects GDP

In: Reference Source: WSJ US Economy

26 Feb 2010

A nice annotated table. Related article.

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Supreme Court History

In: Politics Reference

12 Jan 2010

Comprehensive 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

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Major Trends and Events 1750-2100

In: Culture Global Economy History Politics Reference Science

8 Jan 2010

Would make a good poster. Some of the predictions are questionable, of course. (via)

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NYC Subway Travel Times

In: Culture Interactive Maps Reference

4 Jan 2010

Enter an address on the triptrop site and a Googlemap will come up overlaid with subway travel times to various part of NYC. (via)

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Google Image Searches

In: Graphic Design (general) Reference

1 Dec 2009

Several 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.

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Piracy Watch

In: Maps Reference

12 Nov 2009

As 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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Fun with Weekly Data

In: Graphic Design (general) Innovative Reference US Economy

29 Oct 2009

This is a bit old (the data ends in July ’08), but I like this animated approach to displaying high frequency data over time. Something like this might be interesting to do for cross-country financial data-series.