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"a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight."

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"Maps of online communities, the proliferation of web trends, and popularity of social networks are among these terrific infographics depicting the social media landscape, which will help you visualize who's out there, what they're saying, and where they're sharing it."

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"In an interview posted in September, he notes that what’s surprising about what he’s doing is not really anything new about the data itself, “it’s what we can do with animation, with trends, the change over time.”

What can journalists learn from Rosling’s use of graphics for storytelling? How to make numbers come to life. In Rosling’s TED talk, the crowd responded audibly as a moving dot representing China’s longevity and income dropped dramatically during the Great Leap Forward.

Viewers get complex statistical narratives rendered comprehensible and entertaining via a deceptively simple audio track. Rather than individual human subjects, Rosling’s stories take whole nations for their characters.

Any newsroom could do the same. The software and data are freely available to the public. Last fall, Storyboard contributing editor MacGregor Campbell worked with colleagues Peter Aldhous and Jim Giles to use Gapminder graphics in a story on U.S. health care for New Scientist. "

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Gapminder World is loaded with over 200 indicators displaying trends in some cases back as far as the year 1800. Gapminder World is an amazing tool that is especially useful for educators or anyone else who is interested in "unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view."

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"With all the new projects this year, it was hard to filter down to the best, but here they are: two honorable mentions and the five best data visualization projects of 2009. Visualizations were chosen based on analysis, aesthetics, and most importantly, how well they told their story (or how well they let you tell yours)."

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"40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data
By Nathan / Oct 20, 2008 to Featured, Software / 63 comments

One of the most frequent questions I get is, "What software do you use to visualize data?" A lot of people are excited to play with their data, but don't know how to go about doing it or even start. Here are the tools I use or have used and resources that I own or found helpful for data visualization – starting with organizing the data, to graphs and charts, and lastly, animation and interaction.
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"A recently released Google Labs product called Fusion Tables allowed users to grab data from spreadsheets, text documents, PDFs and other sources and create compelling, comprehensive visualizations from a merged data set.

Google has just announced it's releasing an API for Fusion Tables. The API integrates with Google Maps, App Engine, Base Data and Visualizations APIs, as well, to allow for motion charts, timelines, graphs and maps with all the data available and running on Google's infrastructure. The API allows users to upload data from any source, from text files to full databases, and see their data merged and compared in cool visualizations. Surprisingly, that's not even the best part."

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"A few days ago, the UK's Met Office (short for Meteorological Office) released a large data subset containing a record of global temperatures. The subset is one of the global temperature records that have underpinned IPCC assessment reports and numerous scientific studies. The data show monthly average temperature values for over 1,500 land stations.

Both Manuel Lima (of Visual Complexity) and Jer Thorp (of blprnt.com) have called for the "data community" to step in and use this opportunity to create meaningful data representations. Accordingly, an open online forum titled "#ClimateData", has been created where data visualization enthusiasts are invited to participate in a constructive dialogue towards this goal.

In the meantime, some early visualization results have already trickled in.

- Information is Beautiful (of the book The Visual Miscellaneum) has developed a very detailed infographic depicting the different arguments in the ongoing debate between the Global Warming Sceptics versus the Scientific Consensus.

- Flink Labs mapped the temperature readings of more than 200 years on an animated 3D globe.

- Lastly, blprnt has created 12 monthly data representations, visualizing all 1,670,354 released Met Office Climate records. "

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"# Great visualizations are efficient — they let people look at vast quantities of data quickly.
# Visualizations can help an analyst or a group achieve more insight into the nature of a problem and discover new understanding.
# A great visualization can help create a shared view of a situation and align folks on needed actions."

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"Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel.

View the demos and sample applications to see a few of the visualizations that flare makes it easy to build.

To begin making your own visualizations, download flare and work through the tutorial. You should also get familiar with the API documentation. Need more help? Visit the help forum (you'll need a SourceForge login to post). "

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Today I have compiled a showcase of 15 great looking infographics for your inspiration. Infographics are basically a graphical representation of data. In other words, a fun graph. Here are 15 of the best ones I could find.

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"We're building the first up-to-date, interactive map of today's changing nonprofit landscape. If you're a member of the foundation or grant-making community, engaged in nonprofit work, or just interested in mapping and data visualization, please join us!"

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"A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the search word. The default search query is 'data visualization' but a new one can be typed into the text box at the top of the application. You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the '@' symbol to see the latest tweets from that user. A parameter to the URL can be used to specify the initial search word. For example, use http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php?q=coffee to see the latest tweets about coffee. "

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"Learn how to build a map of the social network surrounding your brand, conference, product, or event.

This is a hands-on guide to creating social network maps from live twitter data.

- Create a visualization that reveals groups, communities and influential participants in the swarm of people mentioning keywords of interest to you.

- Create a visual web of the relationships among the people who mention these keywords when they follow, mention or reply to one another.

- Learn how to calculate key metrics using a free and open add-in for Excel 2007 (NodeXL) that can identify key contributors who play influential roles in your communities.

- Compare your maps to other workshop participants and to a growing gallery of maps of keywords related to conferences like Web2.0, Enterprise 2.0, 140conf, and others.

- Come with your own query terms and make a map during the workshop with our assistance."

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"Nebul.us is a new startup focusing on revealing the online activities of users through the interactive visualization of Internet usage patterns in real-time. It aims to become a social site for sharing content with friends (or to the public at large), or a productivity enhancing site for figuring out how one is spending time online.

After installing a browser plugin, the service will start monitoring the browsing history. Typical Web2.0 profiles like Facebook, Twitter, last.fm or YouTube can be added as well to complete the view of online activities (note that the initial setting is set to 'private', and information about visits to individual sites can also be shared with 'friends' or blocked). "

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"Do you think in words or pictures, or both? Visual thinking engages the part of the brain that handles visual processing, and is said to be both "emotional and creative" so you can "organise information in an intuitive and simultaneous way". "

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"Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data that makes it easier to read and understand. Tools for visualization exist in search, social networks, online communities, mobile apps and desktop applications.
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"Asterisq just released Mentionmap, an exciting web app for exploring your Twitter network. Discover which people interact the most and what they're talking about. It's also a great way to find relevant people to follow."

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"Employees of KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root) have been convicted of contractor fraud on numerous occasions. Although the employees themselves are blacklisted by the government – i.e. placed on the EPLS – there are no official links on record between these employees and KBR. This video uses both structured EPLS data and unstructured data from Department of Justice press releases to link excluded individuals to their employers.
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