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magnetosphere

Barbarian Software recently released a new cross-platform iTunes visualizer called magnetosphere. I was worried that the fancy music-responsive graphics would burden my old G4, but the visualizer surprisingly ran rather quickly. Easy to install, the visualizer works on Macs and PCs, and I’m sure it runs beautifully on newer machines.

Google Maps: My Maps

Lately, I’ve been using the month-old My Maps feature on Google.  To access it, login with your Google account and go to maps.google.com.  You should be able to click on the “my Maps: NEW!” tab.  It’s a great tool for visualizing building locations, and I’ve spent some time documenting my favorite restaurants/businesses in various cities.
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Social Explorer

Social Explorer allows you to you create maps using US Census data.
Social Explorer is dedicated to providing easy access to demographic information about the United States. We have hundreds of interactive data maps of the United States, including historical data back to 1940.
The interactive map is pretty basic:

Choose a map
Choose variable #1
Choose sub-variable

Get started […]

A snapshot of the past five years

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a quite extensive NYT infographic depicting the 5 years since 9/11 in the context of important world events, approval ratings, Homeland Security Threat Levels, US troop fatalities, the weight & blood pressure of George W. Bush, Woody Allen films, word frequencies in State of the Union addresses, top baby names, house prices, number […]

Photo Tourism

Designed by Microsoft and the University of Washington, this 3D Photo Tourism concept is incredible.

Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Our approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites (a), and automatically computes each photo’s viewpoint and a […]

What the world eats

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats - “making things visible”.  Listen to an NPR interview and article with the authors of the 2005 book.

browse flickr by cameras

The team over at flickr added yet another way to browse pictures. You are now able to sort by camera model.

A spherical tree of life

Visualizing the five kingdoms.  It really is worth it to boot up adobe reader to zoom in and out of the pdf.

Tag cloud of Presidential speeches throughout American history

A tag cloud visualization of the most frequently used words in Presidential speeches during approximately the past 200 years.
From BoingBoing

Maps of War

Maps of War - not the most detailed of maps, but it’s nonetheless an interesting visualization of the past 5,000 years in the Middle East.
from CoolHunting 

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