Sep 26
Sometimes, the best bits of data analysis are the simplest ones. Like this gem, uncovered by The Economist yesterday, which shows the average number of minutes you need to work in order to afford a beer. More »
Sep 11
Earlier this year the New York Times wrote about the massive gender gap among Wikipedia contributors: just 13 percent of them are women. Now Santiago Ortiz has crunched the data behind the encyclopaedia, and the results are telling. More »
Aug 07
If you’ve ever wondered how the arms trade—both civilian and military—pans out around the globe, be puzzled no longer. Google has just created a wonderful little visualization, which shows all the (known) arms trade between the globe’s countries over the past 20 years. More »
Jul 27
Vizify offers free infographics all about you, makes you feel like a big shot
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Infographics. The stuff of high turnover websites and news channels, right? Well, yes, but now you can bring the same white space and pastel shades to your own internet footprint, courtesy of free infographic web app Vizify. It’s still in its trial period for now, which means you’ll have to wait for an entry code to tap into the breezy visualization generator, but we managed to plug in as many social networks as we could to see how it all works. The service is definitely centered around those that are very connected to the internet. Vizify will draw information from Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, LinkedIn and also connect through work-based websites you add yourself. It will then populate a clickable front page with circles including images, quotes and links to your profile elsewhere. The service, which is geared at recruitment, crafts a convenient short link to offer up on resumes or job emails. Edit options include a choice of color palettes, and the ability to tweak the layout of the information circles [seen above] and the larger pages that follow it, bringing either more career-centric (or interesting) content to the forefront. Sign up for an access code at the source to give it a try for yourself, or take a stalker-esque trip down an Engadget editor’s social network tracks at the second link below.
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Jul 18
Social influence-ranking service Klout is an odd thing indeed: it thinks Blackberry users are more important than Android Users, but believes our very own Kyle Wagner is a good mom, too. In truth, its rankings don’t intuitively seem to make much sense—and here’s some evidence that supports that statement. More »
Jul 16
Visualizing how the world’s ideas fit together is no mean feat. But now you don’t have to struggle, because Brendan Griffen has mined Wikipedia to create a map of how the world’s greatest thinkers influenced each other. More »
Jul 10
If you’ve ever wondered what the pool of data which is the Stanley Cup results would sound like turned into song, then… well, you have an overactive imagination. But now that artist Bard Edlund has done just that, you’ll wonder why more visualizations don’t make use of audio, too. More »
Jul 09
The route to answering the big questions these days—like, soda or pop?—is to grab a bunch of data from Twitter and analyze it. Which is exactly what Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, decided to do. More »
Jul 05
Do You Live Near an Infectious Human-Animal Disease Hotspot? [Visualization]
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Most emerging human diseases come from animals. This map, created by the International Livestock Research Institute, shows the geographical locations of events where a disease has crossed over from animals to humans. Do you live near a hotspot? More »
Jul 04
If you’ve ever wondered where all the world’s tweets come from, wonder no more. This visualization, put together by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, shows the origins of the entire globe’s tweets. More »
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