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State of the Internet. For infographic fans.

Posted in Data visualisation, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a great piece of infographic video with all of the latest quantitative data about the current state of the Internet. Gotta love the nice countdown to 2010 from 1997 showing the number of new social networks being created each year. Interestingly, there is a peak in the early 2000′s which wanes significantly in 2009 [...]

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What data visualizations can tell us about the world

Posted in Data visualisation, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on September 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

As any researcher will tell you, the difficultly of visualising complex datasets is quite simply, the challenge of finding a way to represent the numbers so that they actually mean something to the person who uses it. In the interesting US/China trade example, the line weight gives an immediate indication to the size of the [...]

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Visualizing the global domination of Starbucks and McDonald’s

Posted in Data visualisation, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Recently I came across some very cool data visualizations, which I am really a big fan of. So I have decided to post some of the best one’s I have found to date. First off is this nice one on Starbucks and McDonald’s. Some interesting highlights to note. The total sales of McDonald’s in 2003 [...]

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