Charting Middle East Relationships

This New York Times map shows the various relationships and paths of strife in the Middle East. A second map, below on the same image, shows the influence of Iran and the US. I like the creativity of the artist in coming up with different ways to show strife "Deep Hatred," "Sworn Enemies," "Deep Suspicion," "Range of Hostility," etc.

All the World's Data

A new study has determined that there are now 276 exabytes of data in the world - that is 276,000,000,000 Gigabytes! That data could be held on a stack of CDs "shooting from the top of your desk to 50,000 miles beyond the moon." Explore how that data breaks down with this graphic, or read the whole artilce in the Washington Post.

Photo from the Washigton Post

Moving Data Charts from Google Public Data Explorer

Google brings data to life by letting you roll a moving chart out over time to see how data changes by year. Google's Public Data Explorer uses data from various sources, including Wolfram Alpha and the World Bank, they have created some very interesting moving charts. Here is one example:

The Clock is Ticking - Data Video

I was sceptical of watching a short movie on Long Island, but this is really a movie about data and it is fantastic.  It uses no spoken words or photos, just statistics, charts and data to describe the decline in wealth, and increase in unemployment, taxes and forclosures on Long Island.

If you like data visualizations you will love the way they've done it in this movie.

The Clock is Ticking from Long Island Index on Vimeo.