Who Get More Funding For Their Startups

According to research from online recruiting startup TopProspect, which has job data about more than three million tech workers (mostly in Silicon Valley) drawn from sources like LinkedIn and Facebook.

TopProspect took a look at startups founded in the last five years with publicly available funding information, and more than 10 employees in TopProspect's peer-recommended network (which shows they're a decent size and well-connected).

It found that ex-Yahoos have started the most companies in this category -- 15 total. But those companies have only received about $126 million in funding.

via blog.topprospect.com

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The Growth of Newspapers Across the U.S.: 1690-2011

This visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers.

via www.stanford.edu
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Cinemetrics

Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.


via cinemetrics.fredericbrodbeck.de

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The Magic of Big Data: New Way of Visualizing Disease

GE partnered with a team of computer scientists and programmers at MITs SENSEable City Lab to produce Health InfoScapean interactive, customizable data visualization that leverages 7.2 million files from the Medical Quality Improvement Consortium, GEs electronic medical records database, available to customers through GEs EMR software. The data vis aims to create new ways of understanding human health in the United States.

via senseable.mit.edu
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Greg's Submarine Cable Map

Greg's Submarine Cable Map is an attempt to consolidate all the available information about the undersea communications infrastructure. The initial data was harvested from Wikipedia, and further information was gathere by simply googling and transcribing as much data as possible into a useful format, namely a rich geocoded format.

via www.cablemap.info
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How Much Sunscreen Should I Wear?

How much sunscreen should I wear?. This simple question took David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer on a massive journey through the data, information myths and misinformation that surround our perception of sunscreen. He calling it the Sunscreen Smokescreen.

via www.informationisbeautiful.net

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