What Are Your Favorite Data Visualizations in Recent Memory?

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  chicago356 — May 30, 2008 at 8:51 am

  I’ve been really impressed by the somewhat unconventional network diagrams done by The Arbitrarian, like http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/plotting-the-colors/ (colors), http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/dimesworth-of-difference/ (politics), and http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/nba-similarity-networks/ (basketball).
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  Richard Atkinson — May 30, 2008 at 12:04 pm

  Hans Rosling… no question.

  Pity his technology has disappeared into the Google Borg!

  http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
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  Tony Rose — May 30, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  Definitely this one about Manny’s quest for 500 homers!

  http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/
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  Chris Mueller — May 30, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  The Flickr galaxy awesome, showing a great user interface and a glimpse of 3d on the web…
  http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/29/flickr-tags-and-pictures-as-a-universe-tag-galaxy/

  and I’m also a big fan of the “Life of the Cell” video:
  http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/#/118/
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  CTV — May 30, 2008 at 7:59 pm

  I’m a big fan of the Baby Name Voyager:

  http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

  simple, attractive, interactive, informative, elegant
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  Nathan Yau — May 31, 2008 at 12:51 am

  @Chris: that’s some sexy scientific visualization! i think it belongs in a scifi movie.

  thanks for participating, everyone. i guess i’ll chime in with one my recent favorites – harris and kamvar:

  http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/29/hope-floats-in-online-dating-i-want-you-to-want-me-by-harris-and-kamvar/
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  Clint — May 31, 2008 at 4:27 am

  Nice use of Google Chart API: xefer twitter charts
  May be down or slow due to twitter flakiness, the output can be seen here, at my blog
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  Tim — May 31, 2008 at 8:04 am

  The best I’ve seen in recent years:
  http://www.venganza.org/piratesarecool4.gif
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  Nathan Yau — May 31, 2008 at 4:28 pm

  @Tim: haha, lovely. my suspicions have been confirmed.
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  Tom Carden — May 31, 2008 at 8:14 pm

  I’m really liking http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html right now.
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  Srikanth — June 1, 2008 at 3:21 am

  @Tom – That one is pure awesome.

  I also liked this one a lot. http://leebyron.com/what/daylight/
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  Chris Hane — June 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm

  Does anyone know the technology Hans Rosling used to create his time movie in his talk on world health, http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 ?
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  Chris Mueller — June 2, 2008 at 5:39 pm

  @Chris Hane: At least part of the visualization is GapMinder/trendalyzer, which is available from Google:

  http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/
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  Nathan Yau — June 2, 2008 at 8:41 pm

  Chris M is right. Here’s the link to the actual GapMinder-esque visualization:

  http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/motionchart.html

  There’s a straightforward example that shows you how to use the API. I think it links up with Google Docs.