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    U2 Tours 1979-2015 - 35 Years & 900,000 Kilometers

    Bernwood & Steinward used data that have been gathered by the fantastic fan website u2gigs.com. This fan collective has collected all the data of U2 shows from the early years until the most...
    u2allovertheworld.com
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    Visualizing Genetic Relationships

    This creative information display makes visual comparisons of my own genetic sequence with that of my grandmother. This work was created with a custom Color SVG Font, “DNA Loops”, which allows a...
    www.courtneybarr.com
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  • Medium

    The Overseas Delivery of "The Infinite Challenge"

    In this period of overseas planning, the members of "The Infinite Challenge" received applications from all over the world , and some of them are selected for distribution. This process diagram is...
    my.zcool.com.cn
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  • Medium

    Iconic Movie Weapons

    I visual guide to some of the most famous and memorable weapons in cinematic history.
    www.behance.net
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  • Medium

    NewsMood

    The news is a major part of how many people obtain information every day. While it provides a vital function to keep people informed about the important issues, we don't often consciously consider...
    newsmood.studiometric.co
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  • Medium

    Tweeting Music

    This is a visualization and auralization of real-time global tweets mentioning 'Music'. People around the world love music, love to listen to music, and love to discuss music. What does it sound...
    glacial-fjord-90645.herokuapp.com
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  • Medium

    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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  • Medium

    The unlikely odds of making it big

    What three years and 75,000 shows in New York tell us about the chance your favorite band will succeed.
    pudding.cool
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  • Medium

    London's Parakeets

    An Interactive Visualisation of the population of this non-native species in and around London, UK
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    Wahl 2Q17

    How do people search for candidates and political topics? And what are they really interested in? Wahl 2Q17 uses Google Trends to visualize the Google Search interest in the top candidates of the...
    2Q17.de
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  • Medium

    Where is the letter?

    We made a small analysis of how often and in what part of a word each letter of the Russian alphabet appears in the language as a whole. This graph shows the relative distribution of each letter,...
    flic.kr
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  • Medium

    VizEx / Text Similarities Explorations

    This is an interactive visualization of a thesaurus – the view highlights the relationship between central search word and its reference to other words used within the dataset. A query word is...
    lucyia.github.io
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  • Medium

    Royal Constellations

    Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique. This leads to very interesting & entangled family trees which the Royal Constellations visual...
    www.datasketch.es
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  • Medium

    The Periodic Table of Northern Tea

    The periodic table of northern tea is an homage to my mother's dinner-time combinations from my youth. Many an evening was spent with her reeling off what at the time seemed like endless...
    adamsharratt.squarespace.com
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  • Medium

    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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  • Medium

    1440 minutes of data

    For my final GCSE piece, I collected data on what activities I was doing for every minute of the day. I collected my data by hand and later transferred it onto a spreadsheet. The overwhelming...
    medium.com
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  • Medium

    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

    The longest running study on wild elephants

    The scientists at the Amboseli Trust for Elephant have studied the same population of elephants since 1972. They know most individuals by name, as well as their genealogy. We built this...
    www.elephanttrust.org
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  • Medium

    A Desperate Escape

    Rohingya Muslims have been fleeing apartheid-like conditions in northwestern Myanmar for decades. A recent military operation drew allegations of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and...
    fingfx.thomsonreuters.com
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  • Medium

    Endangered Species

    Wild animals are an indispensable part of nature and an important partner of ours. In the past hundred years, due to the continuous deterioration of the living environment of mankind and...
    wx4.sinaimg.cn
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  • Medium

    Chat Systems

    A comic drawing attention to the fact that having more ways of contacting people doesn't necessarily make it easier to contact people.
    xkcd.com
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  • Medium

    China's Global Energy Finance

    Since 2000, China has provided upwards of $160 billion in development finance to the energy sector for foreign governments across the globe. To understand the scope and breadth of these...
    www.bu.edu
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  • Medium

    Road to 600 home runs

    I created a Data-driven Design based on Albert Pujols great achievement hitting his 600th home run in the MLB this year with the Los Angeles Angels. He is only the 9th MLB player to ever hit this...
    stelodesignstudio.com
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  • Medium

    Multimodal Symphony

    New York City's transportation system moves millions of people every day, from MTA buses to regional Metro-North rail lines to the omnipresent subway . Multimodal Symphony animates 24 hours of NYC...
    vimeo.com
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  • Medium

    The State Financial Disclosure Project

    While national debate in the United States continues over financial disclosure practices for federal officials, personal financial disclosure for state and local officials remains an under-studied...
    web.northeastern.edu
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  • Medium

    Mapping Global Refugee Movements

    refugeemovements.com provides spacial and temporal interactive visualization of migration data collected by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. It addresses the following questions: How have global...
    refugeemovements.com
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  • Medium

    The Year in Language

    From selfie to wavy, everyday people turn to Google Search to learn definitions, ask questions, and find information. When we add up each of these moments and searches, we see interesting changes...
    googletrends.github.io
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  • Medium

    Japan - Facts & Curiosities

    Japan is truly unique, a country where ancient traditions are fused with modern life as if it were the most natural thing in the world. By interacting with this visualisation you will embark on a...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    Familiarity vs. Discovery in Spotify Listening

    At Spotify, we're interested in observing users’ behavior and inferring what that means about their relationship to music. This experimental project visualizes several months' worth of listening...
    insights.spotify.com
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  • Medium

    Earth Doppler

    This map was made by overlaying two publicly-available NASA maps showing light from cities at night. One map was recorded in 1992, the other in 2010. By overlaying and tinting them red and blue,...
    ianwojtowicz.com
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