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Chesapeake Bay Grasses: Tracking Underwater Vegetation over Time

Chesapeake Bay Grasses [chesapeakebay.net], designed by Stamen Design is an interactive map that tracks a quite exotic subject: the changes of the underwater grasses at Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. Accordingly, the map reveals how the

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Chesapeake Bay Grasses: Tracking Underwater Vegetation over Time

Chesapeake Bay Grasses [chesapeakebay.net], designed by Stamen Design is an interactive map that tracks a quite exotic subject: the changes of the underwater grasses at Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. Accordingly, the map reveals how the

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Connected China: Explaining the Players and Networks within China

The beautifully crafted app Connected China [reuters.com], designed by Fathom Information Design, tracks and visualizes the people, institutions and relationships that form China’s elite power structure. The application was specifically designed for the iPad and is based on data, text,

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Connected China: Explaining the Players and Networks within China

The beautifully crafted app Connected China [reuters.com], designed by Fathom Information Design, tracks and visualizes the people, institutions and relationships that form China’s elite power structure. The application was specifically designed for the iPad and is based on data, text,

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TweetMap ALPHA: Querying a Massive Amount of Tweets on a Map

The impressive TweetMap ALPHA [harvard.edu], developed by Harvard University’s Center for Geographic Analysis, is based on a dataset of about 95 million tweets, which can be dynamically queried by time, by location or by keyword. Tweetmap makes use of so-called

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TweetMap ALPHA: Querying a Massive Amount of Tweets on a Map

The impressive TweetMap ALPHA [harvard.edu], developed by Harvard University’s Center for Geographic Analysis, is based on a dataset of about 95 million tweets, which can be dynamically queried by time, by location or by keyword. Tweetmap makes use of so-called

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Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts

Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500. Each prime number is represented by a bright, white square, whereas a

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Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts

Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500. Each prime number is represented by a bright, white square, whereas a

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The Largest Web Page on the Internet: 7 Billion People on One Page

7 Billion World [7billionworld.com] displays 7 billion people together on a single webpage. Developed by Worldometers – which themselves were originally posted in the good year of 2005 -, the web page itself is generated through some small programming code,

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The Largest Web Page on the Internet: 7 Billion People on One Page

7 Billion World [7billionworld.com] displays 7 billion people together on a single webpage. Developed by Worldometers – which themselves were originally posted in the good year of 2005 -, the web page itself is generated through some small programming code,

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Gender Balance in Conferences on Data Visualization

Gender Balance [stefaner.eu] by Moritz Stefaner provides an eye-opening look on how well females are represented as speakers for conferences on data visualization, creative code and information graphics. Based on Andy Kirk’s data visualization census surveying more than 1500 people,

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Gender Balance in Conferences on Data Visualization

Gender Balance [stefaner.eu] by Moritz Stefaner provides an eye-opening look on how well females are represented as speakers for conferences on data visualization, creative code and information graphics. Based on Andy Kirk’s data visualization census surveying more than 1500 people,

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Venn-Diagram Based Representation of Combinations of Chronic Diseases

The simple yet persuasive interactive infographic accompanying the NYTimes article “For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap” [nytimes.com], reveals the relative frequency with which different chronic diseases overlap for residents in assisted-living facilities. Based on the dynamic morphing of different Venn

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Venn-Diagram Based Representation of Combinations of Chronic Diseases

The simple yet persuasive interactive infographic accompanying the NYTimes article “For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap” [nytimes.com], reveals the relative frequency with which different chronic diseases overlap for residents in assisted-living facilities. Based on the dynamic morphing of different Venn

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Which Flu Virus?

A new deadly strain of “bird flu” – coded H7N9 – has broken out in the Shanghai area of China. Is it more deadly than H5N1? H1N1? H7N7? Or H2N2 even? We weren’t sure. So we took a look at

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Which Flu Virus?

A new deadly strain of “bird flu” – coded H7N9 – has broken out in the Shanghai area of China. Is it more deadly than H5N1? H1N1? H7N7? Or H2N2 even? We weren’t sure. So we took a look at

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Speculative Sea Level Explorer: Reshaping the Coastline by Climate Change

The Speculative Sea Level Explorer by interaction designer Benedikt Groß investigates how the coastline and the territory of the world will be reshaped by a rise of the sea level due to Global Warming. While the simulation, captured as a

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Speculative Sea Level Explorer: Reshaping the Coastline by Climate Change

The Speculative Sea Level Explorer by interaction designer Benedikt Groß investigates how the coastline and the territory of the world will be reshaped by a rise of the sea level due to Global Warming. While the simulation, captured as a

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Speculative Sea Level Explorer: Reshaping the Coastline by Climate Change

The Speculative Sea Level Explorer by interaction designer Benedikt Groß investigates how the coastline and the territory of the world will be reshaped by a rise of the sea level due to Global Warming. While the simulation, captured as a

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Speculative Sea Level Explorer: Reshaping the Coastline by Climate Change

The Speculative Sea Level Explorer by interaction designer Benedikt Groß investigates how the coastline and the territory of the world will be reshaped by a rise of the sea level due to Global Warming. While the simulation, captured as a

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