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Bailout Breakdown

who's getting how much from the government?
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  Bailout Breakdown from Associated Press is an interactive applet that lets the user analyze the recipients and amounts of the $700...
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British History Timeline

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: You can browse through this timeline that highlights events in British history on your own or you can choose the  "Take a journey"...
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Competitive Edge Explorer

Type: Map
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Description: a 3D map-like visualization of the particular factors that help make Boston competitive in the global marketplace, such as innovation, education,...
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Crimespotting

Type: Map
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Description: Ufortunately, this project was blocked by the database from where it gathers data, so it is not fully working as of 1/18/08. An online street map...
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Friends Wheel

Type: Map
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Description: http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/ Thomas Fletcher, a 19 year old student studying Computer Science & Maths at Bath University, has...
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http://der-mo.net/05_links/index.html

Type: Map
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Description: This page is simply a  "links" page that is interactive in that it shows how one link/page relates to the rest of the links/pages.
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IBM Rocks (IBMers listening habits)

Type: Map
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Description: IBM Rocks shows what IBMers are listening to around the world on a 3D interactive globe.  Users can select an IBM location from...
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Interactive Sankey Diagrams

Type: Map
Status: Public
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Description:  Interactive Sankey Diagrams, presented at InfoVis2005, is a great example of how interactivity can leverage the overall use and understanding...
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Interactive Treemap (Lateral)

Type: Map
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Description: commercial website that uses a full-screen & visually impressive lay-out based on the well-known treemap visualization metaphor. users can...
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Interactive Worldmap

Type: Map
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Description: An interactive geographical map resource which contains detailed country information for over 200 countries.  It maps key social, economic,...
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La blogopole

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: an impressive interactive data visualization based on the political playground of the French blogosphere. the "blogopole" represents...
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Maeve

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description:  The interactive installation maeve (MACE-Everyville) provides visual and tangible access to the social and intellectual networks behind...
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Map of future Forces Affecting Education

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: This is a graphical concept map that forecasts a consistent view of how future forces will affect the components of public education in the US. The...
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Mapdream

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: Map of mapping tools, with active links. It's a neat way to organize links related to mapping and visualizing data, though it may not be terribly...
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Mapping the Digg community

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: Using the Digg API, Brian Shaler created a map of Digg users and how they're connected to each other. On the map, users are organized by the length...
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Mapping the electoral mood (Australia)

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: An online polling & visualization application that maps the mood of the (Australian) electorate in regards to specific quotes of politicians....
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Mapping the Energy Usage Distribution in New Zealand

Type: Map
Status: Public
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Description:  As one of the very few examples of government organizations being interested in involving the general public in data, the aim of Energy...
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MIGration MAP

Type: Map
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Description: A rich collection of virtual maps illustrating current European migration policies. in particular, MigMap conveys a picture of how & where the...
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Neoformix

Discovering and Illustrating Patterns in Data
Type: Map
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Description: This is an nteractive tool to explore the structure of a text document. "Visually highlighting key terms from a document and the...
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NEWS.COM

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: Interesting application for the way information is displayed and for the navigation between clickable information.
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Nodediagram

Type: Map
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Description: XML 3D Node Diagram is a flash piece that allows anyone to load a xml file and see its structure drawn in a 3D cone diagram, tree form or branching...
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Portfolio

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: a simple infographic illustrating how the gap between the average CEO & the average worker drastically widened between 1970 & 2005.
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Radial Visual Browser

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: A semantic data visualization that shows the relationships within complex concept network structures. in this example, the diagram represents the...
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Risks Interconnection Map (RIM) 2010

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  The Risks Interconnection Map (RIM) 2010 [weforum.org], featured on the World Economic Forum website, is an interactive...
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Social network visualization

(based on the relation browser)
Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: see also http://getoutfoxed.com/visualization An open source will be released soon. Based on Radial Visual Browser: A semantic data...
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The BBC Box

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description:  BBC News is following a container around world for a year to tell stories of globalisation and the world economy - track the BBC Box on a...
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The genographic Map

Type: Map
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Description: A geographical & "genographical" world map illustrating when & where ancient humans moved around the world, as a visual...
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Timeline and subjects in US presidential debate

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description:  a couple of interactive data visualization that illustrate the structure & content of the past US presidential debates. a "Debate...
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Toute l'europe

Type: Map
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TRACKING MAP

Type: Map
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Description: "You Are Here" is an interactive visualisation which tracks and displays the paths of visitors traveling through a large public space....
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US Demographics Visualizer

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  A web-tool allowing users to map  population, age, ethnicity, political and income data on a US map. 
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Wanderlust

Type: Map
Status: Public
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Description:  GOOD Magazine, in collaboration with Graham Roberts, maps the most famous journeys in history - some fiction, some...
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We Wired

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  n order to represent the buzz around the upcoming italian version of Wired magazine, Daniele Galiffa worked with Ogilvy...
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