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Animated global statistics that everyone can understand

The visualization project Gapminder was founded by Prof. Hans Rosling. The most frequent tool used in the website was using data points to illustrate the correlation between life expectancy and GDP. An animation was showed the change in correlation within the recent half century.

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I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.

This piece of visualization describes what a person would spend his/her entire day from min to min. Thousands of people’s data were collected, and each individual’s behavior patterns was pulled as a diagram for viewer to look close at. The amazing part is that every min of one’s behavior was illustrated out in a visual format.

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https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/based-on-a-true-true-story/

As the movie makers always mock some plots in their films, this interactive project shows the extent of the validity of the scenes in popular movies. Comparing the scenes shown in the film with the reality, users could explore the scenes they have doubt for or interest in. There are five categories here: unknown, false, false-ish, true-ish and true, each of which is represented by different color. It contains enormous information behind such a simple graph.

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https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/spotify-apple-music-tidal-music-streaming-services-royalty-rates-compared/

This graph shows abundant information of the comparison among 9 major music streaming companies about the average revenue of the artists, the number of the users, the estimated loss, etc. I love this graph as it combines different kinds of diagrams together neatly and beautifully. The arrangement makes the comparison really distinct from each other. Also, it uses the proper y-axises in the first chart, connecting the lines in an appropriate range.

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How has the number of people living in extreme poverty changed?

The treemap above (interactive version here) illustrates how the number and distribution of people living in extreme poverty has changed between 1990 and 2013. The reduction in the number of poor in East Asia and Pacific is dramatic, and despite the decline in the Sub-Saharan Africa’s extreme poverty rate to 41 percent in 2013, the region’s population growth means that 389 million people lived on less than $1.90/day in 2013 - 113 million more than in 1990

The World Bank is pleased to release the 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals. With over 150 maps and data visualizations, the new publication charts the progress societies are making towards the 17 SDGs.

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I chose this visualization because it dealt with the number of people in poverty as a proportion of an area. That is, the shape decreases or increases in area as the number of people in poverty fluctuates. The area of the shape is most likely the population. I think it is a good way of visualizing the changes of a population as a change in the area of a shape as it helps the reader to sense the changes magnitude. afl2118

The debate around brackets often misses the point.

I chose this data visualization because it shows the variation of the number of tax brackets over the past 100 years and it’s implications on the economy. I also chose this data visualization because it is kind of hard to read, especially, as the regular reader is not versed in tax code law or the economic implications of increasing or decreasing the number of tax brackets. Basically, making this data visualization a representation of the number of tax brackets by year and income but not much else. afl2118

Visualizing 138 Years of Popular Science Magazine

https://datavisualization.ch/showcases/visualizing-138-years-of-popular-science-magazine/

This data visualization piece was designed to represent the complete archive of the publication of Popular Science. It is anchored by a “molecular chain” which is made up of decade clusters from 1880 to 2000. Decade clusters contain year clusters. And year clusters contain many atoms representing single issue of the magazine. The color of the atom is extracted form the issue covers and the size of the atom is determined by the number of words in each issue.

The author also picked some words from the entire dictionary of the publication. The height of the line represents the frequency of the word.

In general, this layout, color, shapes of the symbols are nice at the first glance. It looks like a process of evolution in the perspective of a magazine’s development. It is convenient to compare the change of cover colors and number of words of issues during the 12 decades through this “molecular chain”. But the information expressed is also confined in these aspects.

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Recreate the beauty and fluidity of the divers in the flowing lines

This project used each line represents a synchronized diving team, and its height represents its total score. It used the difficulty and execution scores to determine the radius of the lines at each round, and a wider section indicates a difficult dive executed well.

I like this project since its creative way to demonstrate, explain, and destruct the diving game process.

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Create Your Better Life Index to rate countries

This project allows you to rate the topics according to their importance to you. This Index is used to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

I like this project since its smart flower-shape representation of the eleven topics to each country, which tells you the relative values concisely and clearly.

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A Day in the Life of Americans

https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-americans/

This visualization shows how a person’s entire day plays out based on the American Time Use Survey from 2014. 1000 Americans’ answers are included in this piece to express the routinely change to the minute. The daily activities and the transition probabilities for one activity to the other are shown.

Each dot represents a person and the color represents the activity. The lines show the paths of the transition at one time better than the dots. But they present little information about the change during a period of time.

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Will Strouse looks at Jimi Hendrix's live performances between 1967 and 1970.

One of the great strengths of this visualization of Jimi Hendrix’ live performances from 1967 to 1970 is the way that it combines different elements into one cohesive whole: year, song title, where it was performed. Though the elements themselves are simple-- bar chart, map, etc-- together they form a very compelling image with lots of hover over information. The dramatic color scheme helps organize the information and make it look unified, as well as convey a feel for the subject matter.

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Browse through history using our daily maps of historical news events and milestones. Navigate the map using our zoom tool.

This data visualization follows 50 years of space exploration, charting both successful and failed missions, as well as deep-sea missions. Different colors represent the different nations that have led these missions, and text boxes/captions provide further information on specific missions. Clearly, space exploration began with some of Earth’s closest neighbors and has since expanded to planets farther away, including Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. This visualization is not only extremely informational and useful, but it is also aesthetically beautiful, clear and interesting.

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Universcale

Data visualization can not only be used to research and analysis but also be used to help people understand something. Also in the time the author actually makes an advertise of its product.

In this piece, viewers can learn a lot about the scale and units from realistic objectives. It covers the scale range that can be seen from the electron microscopes and astronomical telescopes. The data is integrated with the texts, visualization and sound. That makes the learning process easier and interesting, which can even be understood by a primary student. People can see one interested scale with particular size of object by clicking or tapping on the unit bar that indicates a scale position. There are also options shown for a smaller and a bigger scale of object.

https://www.nikon.com/about/sp/universcale/

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The choice between buying a home and renting one is among the biggest financial decisions that many adults make.

This visualization piece requires users to input variables and let algorithm to leverage whether if they should rent or buy a house. The more precise the data that input into the chart, the more accurate resulst users might get. However, gathering all the data correctly is already a difficult task.

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Film Money

http://www.datamake.io/project/film-money

Based on film budget, revenue and rating data, Film Money tells the story of the fickle relationship between business interests and public taste. Often demanding huge amounts of effort, manpower and skill, films hazard a wager on human taste, and the resulting success or failure is sometimes spectacular. This visual story focuses on the ends of that spectrum: the winners, the losers and – probably most entertaining – the surprises.

This interactive visualization goes well with the contents of the article. And it changes the ranking of the movies and also the financial data showing in the diagrams as the readers going through the article. It also highlights some interesting data points, revealing the phenomena people may have ignored in the past.

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