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Data Visualization: Impact of the Subprime Crisis
We always love the data visualizations from the New York Times. Their designers are really doing an outstanding job.
Yesterday they have published another great one on a topic that is very hard to visualize – a graphic showing how regions throughout the United States are hit differently by the Subprime Mortgage crisis and the level of foreclosures resulting from that.
More information and the full size graphics at the “New York Times”.
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Time waster: Proximity of Needs
A great way to watch time passing by and how beautiful mathematics can be visualized.
It is an interactive animation where you can change the parameters for the calculations and graphical simulation.
More information on the project page at…
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Turn your web site into a graph
This great applet will turn your web site into a graph. You just need to enter an URL and the screens shows how the graph is dynamically build step by step.
The tool was created with…
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Data-Visualization: The world according to newspapers
We always knew that the press and journalists are selective with what story makes it to the cover pages or even receives a few paragraphs to be mentioned. But nobody has visualized this so far and shown how unbalanced some newspapers are regarding world news.
The two heatmaps below show news coverage by geographical region from the Daily Mail and The Economist during 2007. They are part of a series of heatmaps created within a project by French journalists Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Gilles Bruno. The two are planning to…
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Data-visualization: Charting The Banking Crisis
The web log “And Still I Persist” has made two interesting implementations available that demonstrate how data-visualization tools similar to “Gapminder’s Trendalyzer” can be used to show patterns in vast amounts of data.
They used OSG’s Boomerang technology to show changes in banks’ mortgage portfolios based on the data the banks have reported to the FDIC. The first chart / animation shows the amounts of 90+ days late mortgages and the second one visualizes the changed amounts in mortgages that…
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Data-Visualization: Country Codes of the World
Currently more than 260 top level domains are in use on the Internet. While the .com domain still remains the most popular, many country domains are now widely used as well.
On the map below each country is represented…
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