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The blog of a team looking into approaches to data visualisation. 

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As it describes itself:
"Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library."

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D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.

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Via Bill Steele (@UWS_CAPD)

Hover over each "element" to view an example.

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Create and share web-based, interactive infographics. "Data in; brilliance out!" Video a little cheesey but it's a very interesting looking tool.

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I've registered interest in the Labs part of this site - interested to see what these plug and play tools are going to look like.

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Community site for creating data visualisations, accessing data and other stuff. Work uploaded under Creative Commons license.

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Great blog on data viz by the author of Visualize This!

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Mashups comparing where locals take pictures of their home city with what tourists take snaps of. 

These actually look better not zoomed completely in.

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Nice looking resources on the fundamentals of dataviz for education and assessment.

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Live shipping data mapped so you can see all major vessels under way round the world. Click on each one for more info.

Useful if you're the coastguard. Fun for the rest of us.

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IBM's data visualisation tool.

I think, when I've got this geolocation workshop together I'm going to focus on data vis. This seems like a good place to start.

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Matthew Somerville has produced this live map of London Underground trains from data made available from Transport for London.

It's quite hypnotic watching the constant movement of trains across the network. It makes my head hurt thinking about how you manage a system as complex as this.

There's also a link to a rail network version of this.

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A research and education platform that overlays historical map images onto a Google Earth background. 
The range of cities on display is limited but interesting. New York's a good one to start with.
I came across a few bugs where maps didn't appear or refused to be hidden but otherwise this is fascinating.

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UK Government's open data web site. Great source of info for visualisations and map mash-ups.

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Wide range of sources of data for creating map mash-ups and visualisations.

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Great free tool for creating and sharing map mash ups

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Great map mashup site from UCL

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Online tool for creating system or flow diagrams as well as concept maps and similar stuff. Download the results to your hard drive

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Fantastic visualisation of key demographic and environmental statistics. Great for population studies. Stick it on the whiteboard and get students to draw conclusions from what they see.

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