Data Worldwide: Data Visualization

An estimated 15,000 militants from at least 80 nations are believed to have entered Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad according the CIA and studies by ISCR and The Soufan Group. The slight highlights the flow of fighters to Syria.

The Soufan Group

International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ISCR)

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008

Sources: Baseline StudioSystems; Box Office Mojo. Mathew Bloch, Lee Byron, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox, New York Times, Infographic, 23 February 2008

Here's a look at how movies have fared at the box office, after adjusting for inflation.

Daily Commutes into London

Paul Kerley, BBC News Magazine

Depiction of dily commutes into London with data from the 2011 Census.

Image is subject to copyright - London: The Information Capital by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti (Particular Books).

The better life snowflake

Visualization of data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development by Paula Filippone.

Hurricane Sandy's Impact on NYC 311 Calls

Some of the most frequent 311 complaint types are shown for the days before and after Sandy hit New York City, indicating the dramatic shift in how this service was used during the disaster.

An Overview of the Euro Crisis

The New York Times, Sunday Review, published 22 October 2011.
Arrows show imbalances of debt exposure between borrowers in one country and banks in another; arrows point from debtor to their bank creditors. Arrow widths are proportional to the balance of money owned.

Comment: This visualization is a nice example of how graphs can be used to convey ideologically motivated messages. The description of the graph highlights the fact that "France's banking system (is) more exposed to Italian debtors". However it fails to point out that the United States is, by far, more exposed to debtors than any other country. The multiple thick arrows pointing out from the United States are colored in a light gray - suggesting irrelevance, while the few thin arrows, indicating the exposure of European countries, are colored in signal red.

Whereabouts London

An experiment in how open data can be used to understand and improve future cities

Whereabouts London is an ongoing experiment by the Future Cities Catapult to explore how open data can be used to help cities and citizens see their environment in a new light.

Percentage of Muslim population by country

Map by M. T. Hunter, 29 June 2014;
Data from Pew Research Center, 2014 (pdf)

The world's top 50 banks -
and the institutions that no longer exitst.

Guardian Infographic with data from The Banker magazine, 25 March 2009

Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria:
Where Do They Come From?

Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, 29 September 2014

Patterns of Storms

Storm warning: prepare for a busy hurricane season. New Scientist, 31 May 2011

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Tale of 100 Entrepreneurs

How Long Does It Take To Build A Technology Empire?
Wall Street Journal, 25 August 2009

Wealth Year 2015

SASI Group, University of Sheffield; Mark Newman,
University of Michigan, 2006

U.S. Secret Terrorist-Tracking System

Database of Terrorist Suspects (THE // INTERCEPT, 5 August 2014)

U.S. Gun Deaths in 2013 and 2010

People killed and "stolen years" (periscopic.com)

Top Secret America

Washington Post

Worldwide Remittance Flows 2010

Tages Woche

Wind Map

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
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Real-time Wind Map of the Globe

Cameron Beccario, NCEP / National Weather Service / NOAA (use Chrome Browser)

Three-Generation-Model of Wealth Transfer

G.K. Heilig, demographics.at

Flight paths worldwide 2012

Alexey Papulovskiy, contrailz.com

How the recession reshaped the U.S. economy

New York Times

The Evolution of an Organization

Autodesk Research

How much is time wrong around the world?

Stefano Maggiolo

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The Corruption Perception Index 2012

Transparency International

Billionaires worldwide

Kim Albrecht

Meteoroids 1900-2000

Kim Albrecht

Geographic distribution of predicted H7N9 infection risk (bird flu)

Marius Gilbert, et. al.

Dark Intelligence

Cyber attacks from darknets in hundreds of locations from over 40 countries. Attack flows against the NORSE honey pot infrastructure.

NORSE

Historical Energy Mix in Germany

Gregor Aisch, driven-by-data.net

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