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This visualisation, which has been very popular on social media, is this animated video by Population Connection, a grassroots population organisation in the United States. Using a timeline linked to historical periods, such as the Han Dynasty, the video shows how the population has grown and is expected to grow in the future. Population data is neatly shown with shining dots.  

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Ryoji Ikeda is an electronic composer and visual artist whose work is inspired by big data. He focuses on the essential characteristics of sound and visuals through mathematical precision and aesthetics. Ikeda elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations. See more of his art on vimeo. 

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This dataviz by FlowingData is a simulation of 1,000 people's average day. It's based on 2014 data from the American Time Use Survey, made way more accessible by the ATUS Extract Builder.

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We are all collecting big data on ourselves ... whether we’re aware of it or not. Wearable technology like Fitbit collects an enormous amount of data on our exercise, eating and sleeping. Our mobiles are collecting data on our travels and what we see and do. This is a visualisation of three months of personal data by Nicolas Felton. It’s neatly done. I suspect that there will an increasing demand for this kind of work in the future. 

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Based on police records obtained by The Guardian, this visualisation examines police detentions at Homan Square, Chicago: the people, their race, their pickup locations, the charges … and the mayor. The visualisation has excellent UX, particularly on mobile. 

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The Washington Post created this interactive map visualisation, showing the source of electricity generation in each state in the USA from January to May 2015. The map breaks down data from the Energy Information Administration to outline every power source in the United States and categorises it by type and size.

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BitTorrent is creating a browser that downloads webpages from other people who have visited the site rather than from a central server. This is a great way of leveraging its existing peer-to-peer file distribution technology.  And the browser gets displayed with a really good data visualisation. Take a look at this FastCompany article to find out more. 

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ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight is a good example of data journalism. The site was created by analyst Nate Silver and the site’s name refers to the number of electors in the United States Electoral College.  FiveThirtyEight publishes articles created from statistical information on a wide variety of political topics.

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NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization team has used data collected in a CALIPSO satellite study to tell the story of how tons of Saharan dust travels across the Atlantic every year and fertilises the Amazon basin. The data was visualised in this animated video, which sets the benchmark for communicating complex scientific data to a wide audience. And users love it, as evidenced in the large numbers of viewers on YouTube.  

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This infographic visualises nuclear warhead data gleaned from The Guardian newspaper by artist drwtsn. It shows the rise and fall in nuclear warhead stockpiles from the 1940s, with information on the countries that held the most weapons: the USA, Russia, the UK, France and China. 

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Google News Labs in collaboration with Pith Interactive created this interactive visualisation of search data related to climate change from Internet users in 20 cities around the world. Eight search terms are visualised: energy; recycling; oceans; natural environment; drinking water; global warming; wildlife; and air pollution. It’s possible to see which topic is getting the most search volume overall and which one is trending in a particular city.

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Users don’t want irrelevant content, spam-riddled websites, and typo-infected content. Users don’t want to convert on clunky websites with ugly colors, tiny buttons, garrish fonts, and broken menus. Users want high-quality, spam-free SEO. Users want beautiful websites with seamless interfaces. Users are at the heart of digital marketing. You can and should invest cash, time, and concern into your SEO and CRO. But you should do so with this mentality — it’s all about the users.

Neil Patel, Forbes

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This data visualisation, by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, shows how segregated US cities can be. The map uses data from the 2010 Census and displays 308,745,538 individual dots, each representing a person. The dots are colour coded by ethnicity.

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While data is neither good nor bad for creativity, information and knowledge gleaned from analysis of data can inspire.

Jason Brush, TNW News

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Corporate journalism is a practice that combines an organisation’s market intelligence and subject-matter expertise with the credibility and narrative techniques of professional journalism.

John Corey, President and Co-Founder, Greentarget

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This attractive data visualisation on the evolution of web. Two navigation tabs explore different aspects of the web: 1) browsers and technology; and 2) the growth of the internet. The visualisation is completely interactive with pop-ups, a moving timeline, and scrolling information boxes. It’s one of the most sophisticated visualisations I’ve seen. The visualisation was created by  Hyperakt, Vizzuality, mgmt design and GOOD

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Big data and personalisation make it possible for content marketers to match content with audience needs.

Dale Kneen