How Much CO2 Is Created By…

Every action, every event, every person, everything emits a certain amount of carbon. This interactive visualization made by David McCandless teamed up with GE examines some of those scenarios. Play around to learn some interesting and surprising information about how much Carbon dioxide is released during various activities.

via visualization.geblogs.com

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United States of America Equivalents

It has long been true that California on its own would rank as one of the biggest economies of the world. These days, it would rank eighth, falling between Italy and Brazil on a nominal exchange-rate basis.

But how do other American states compare with other countries?

via  www.economist.com

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Mozilla Open Data Competition - The Winner!

Back in November, Mozilla Labs and the Metrics Team together launched the first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition. Here is result:

Grand Prize

Survey Participants vs. All Users – Contributed by: James Fiedler

via mozillalabs.com
(click above link to see other entries)

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Better World Flux

Better World Flux, a beautiful interactive visualization of information on what really matters in life. It visually communicates the world state in terms of standards of living and quality of life for many countries and how this has changed, and mostly improved, over a period of up to 50 years. This site is a tool for building a consensus, telling a story and sharing it, all whilst raising awareness for the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Click here to see an interactive graphics

via infosthetics.com

Global Mood Clocks

Discover the world’s first Global Mood Clocks, that in addition to telling time, reflect the “mood” of a city by showing the dominant colour from the latest location-tagged photo uploads to Flickr and the top Google search and Twitter trending keywords, all in real time. The app, created by Grey Canada, is a virtual update to the classic office “wall of clocks” decor that displays local time for multiple global cities. The Mac & PC Adobe AIR version makes for a sharp looking office desktop background, while keeping users up to speed on what's happening in a diverse selection of cities around the world. Global Mood Clocks will be released by the Apple app store for iPhone in January 2011.

Here is the launch video:

via www.greycanada.com
(click here to see the interactive version)

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In Investing: When You Start And When You Finish

This chart shows annualized returns for the S.& P. 500 for every starting year and every ending year since 1920 — nearly 4,000 combinations in all. READ ACROSS THE CHART to see how money invested in a given year performed, depending on when it was withdrawn.

via www.nytimes.com

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