Power of Data Visualization

Fans on the Move: The Most International Events

Fans On The Move is a fully interactive data visualization drawing from a database of over 16,000 events collected over the past three years. The result visualizes the origins and destinations of the fans that have traveled abroad to see sports, music and theater events in addition to highlighting the top international events.

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Recyclability of Concrete, Timber, Steel

Nicely made infographic from steelconstruction.info wiki. What happens to the building materials on demolition, how much of concrete, timber and steel can be recycled?

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Energy Flows in Wood Gas Process

From a presentation by Swiss company CTU Clean Technology Universe AG comes this Sankey diagram for energy flows in a wood gas process.

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The Price Of All Apple Products

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Ethnic Composition of the Americas

Fixing the visual versus fixing the story

It's great for me when my friend Alberto Cairo lent a helping hand (link). Here is the original chart showing deaths in African and Middle East countries due to recent unrest:

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13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics

A Photo of Everything Touched For 11 Years

Artist Alberto Frigo took a picture of every object he used with his right hand for the past 11 years. Averaging 76 photos per day, the project — Images of the artifact used by the main hand — is low-tech, with just a small, hand-held camera. No internet connection, tagging, or documentation. Just a stream of photos.

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Terrorism Incidents Calendar 1970 - 2013

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Bayes Theorem Explained with LEGO Bricks

Bayes' theorem is covered in introduction to statistics and probability courses, but I think a lot of people starting out don't understand it conceptually. They see a formula that you plug numbers into. Here's an example using LEGO bricks that clarifies the confusion, hopefully.

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