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    The Emoji States of America

    This visualization is a modified version of Chernoff Faces, a technique that maps multiple statistical values to the features of a face. Because it's 2017, we expanded on the technique and made...
    www.axios.com
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    World's airports

    English: The world’s airports project is a dig data geo visualization. The main categories are divided into the type, location, gps and scale of the object. I’m presenting a variety of different...
    www.martamoskwa.com
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    Dead on Arrival

    Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?
    tmsnrt.rs
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    The Trade in Plastic Waste

    Plastic is ubiquitous in our everyday lives – so much that we cannot imagine living without it, nor see how dependent we have become on it. Plastic is in almost everything. Plastic production...
    grid-arendal.maps.arcgis.com
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    A Mountain Is More Than Its Summit Elevation

    We humans are too easily fixated on extremes, we count and compare and put things in order. The pinnacles of land are mountains, and they are always ranked by the elevation of their summits above...
    markjstock.org
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    Which Fish are Okay to Eat?

    www.informationisbeautiful.net
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    Appalachia comes up small in era of giant coal mines

    As the coal industry is squeezed, the most productive mines employ huge machines and relatively few people.
    www.washingtonpost.com
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    Two Centuries of Population, Animated

    You’ve likely seen the population density map of the United States in one form or another. A lot of people per square mile reside in big cities, fewer people reside in suburban areas, and a lot...
    flowingdata.com
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    Beautiful Trash

    Beautiful Trash visualizes a week of trash collection routes in Cincinnati, OH using the open data from the City of Cincinnati. In addition to the visualization, there is also a YouTube video...
    www.dataplusscience.com
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    Mapping the Timesheet of Urban Cycling

    Over one year in Boston, 1,064,053 people cycled 16,548,483 mins in total. They burned 56,264,845 calories and saved 1,581,331,745 g CO2 emissions compared to if their journeys were by car. This...
    4trees.github.io
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    Globe of International Trade

    In 2015, the global import-export market totaled $15.6 trillion. This animated map shows where those goods came from and where they went. Each dot represents $1 billion in value of a particular...
    blueshift.io
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    Fatal Bear and Wolf Attacks in Norway

    www.reddit.com
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    Treepedia

    Treepedia measures the canopy cover in cities. Rather than count the individual number of trees, we’ve developed a scaleable and universally applicable method by analyzing the amount of green...
    senseable.mit.edu
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    Amazon Rainforest

    Billions of people and animals rely on the benefits of the Amazon rainforest, including food, fresh water, shelter and climate control. Forests such as the Amazon play a critical role in mitigating...
    public.tableau.com
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    Uber Vs Cabs

    All 4.5 million Uber pick-ups, and 82.4 million yellow cab pick-ups between April and September 2014. The rise of Uber is well documented, but the geographic complexity is often harder to see as...
    thegraphisdead.com
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    TravelTime

    TravelTime is a data visualization based on open data from the Dutch National Data Warehouse for Traffic Information. The visualization shows 1 day of traffic in the Netherlands at 1 minute...
    tulpinteractive.com
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    Who migrates to and from NYC?

    The dynamism of migration strengthens NYC and has contributed to the City’s growth in population to an all-time high of 8,537,673 in 2016. These charts show the number of people who moved to or...
    nycplanning.github.io
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    Siria: Danni Collaterali (Syria: Collateral Damage)

    Siria: Danni Collaterali (Syria: Collateral Damages) is a visual journalism project which sheds a light on the destruction of historical heritage during the Syrian civil war. Text insights and maps...
    syria.visualeyed.com
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    Tracking smartphone wi-fi signals reveals curious journeys on the London Underground

    Our transport system generates huge amounts of data. For instance, on a typical weekday, we collect 19 million smartcard ticketing transactions that offer a valuable insight into the number of...
    content.tfl.gov.uk
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  • Medium

    A Breathing Earth

    We all know that our Earth goes through a seasonal cycle, especially for the latitudes farther away from the equator. In the fall the "deciduous" plants lose their leaves only to grow back again in...
    www.datasketch.es
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    WP BrandStudio & Bank of America: How green bonds work

    The Washington Post’s in-house creative agency WP BrandStudio and Bank of America partnered to produce a year-long series showcasing how responsible growth strategies are helping customers and...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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    Infographics to explain a key concept in the 2016 Australian State of the Environment report

    State of the environment reporting is a vital process and resource in environmental management. In Australia, the report is prepared every five years by an independent team of expert authors. The...
    soe.environment.gov.au
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    Parliament

    This website is the virtual counterpart to the book ‘Parliament’. The book explores the double-sided relationship between space and politics by documenting and comparing the plenary halls of the...
    www.parliamentbook.com
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  • Medium

    INRIX Data Visualization for Global Traffic Scorecard

    Each year, transportation and location-analytics company, INRIX, releases its Traffic Scorecard — a global ranking of major cities based on the economic costs of traffic congestion based on more...
    inrix.com
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    The tallest buildings in the U.S.

    Client's infographic: how tall would a state stand, based on its tallest building? Which states have the most high-rise buildings? What are most skyscrapers used for?
    www.highrises.com
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    Road accidents in India

    This is a comparison between the number of road accidents in each state of India and between the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Data is accessed from official Indian Government site at...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    Watch the rising of the Shanghai skyline in 49 seconds

    In 2016, Shanghai Tower, the tallest skyscraper in China opened to the public, which contributed to the completeness of Shanghai skyline. Since the early 1990s, Lujiazui has been developed...
    www.thepaper.cn
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    Map of Firsts

    A dynamic roadmap through the early developments of data visualization, in the style of John Ogilby’s 1675 Atlas. Original illustrations and interactive design guide you through time past...
    infowetrust.com
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    The New Top 10 Furnace Cities in China

    Many large cities in China, especially Chongqing, Wuhan and Nanjing, were traditionally known as “furnace cities”, suffer from long-lasing hot weather in summer. In recent years, with the global...
    www.dropbox.com
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    Thirty years of Atlantic hurricanes

    Each line represents the life of a storm as recorded by NOAA. The higher the line within each year, the higher the recorded wind speed. Storms that reached Category 5, the strongest of the strong,...
    www.axios.com
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