Power of Data Visualization

The space agency just announced that the last shuttle mission would be in June. How is NASA going to spend its resources if it's not manning the shuttle program?

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Look up at the sky and what do you see? Well, blue, yes. And maybe a plane or a bird, but otherwise ... nothing. Or so you think. It turns out that right above you, totally invisible, is an enormous herd of animal life -- tiny bugs riding the wind currents.

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President Obama delivered the State of the Union speech last night for 2011. Jeff Clark from neoformix.com have created a few diagrams that compare it with the speech from last year to try and understand how it differs.

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The relationship between speed cameras and road deaths.

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Isolines are based upon an interpolated surface generated from approximately 1.5 million geocoded public posts on Twitter between March 9th and April 12th, 2010. These data represent only a sample of all posts made during that period. Isolines are based upon the average number of profanities found in the 500 nearest data points, in order to compensate for low population areas.

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Foursquare.com just released an infographic outlining their tremendous 3400% growth in the past year.

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Why shoppers find it so hard to escape from Ikea: Flatpack furniture stores are 'designed just like a maze'. According to Alan Penn, director of the Virtual Reality Centre for the Built Environment at University College London, Ikea's strategy is similar to that of out-of-town retail parks - keep customers inside for as long as they can.

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Ice sheets in Greenland are melting faster than ever before, according to new research.

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Sysomos.com, social media monitoring and analytics company decided to take a closer look into how social media was used during the Queensland, Australia floods?.

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This infographic made by Gareth Parry from Auckland, New Zealand (He decided to make to make 1 infographic every week). This week is about American Wars.