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A fun little video from Gabe Askew showing a few months work to create a fan video for the song “Two Weeks”.  See the video after the break.

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Mint Software follows on the popularity of the previous “Debt Hell” infographic, by releasing a new video visualizing $1 Trillion.

It’s official, trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all. One trillion dollars is a number that few people can comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. So what does one trillion dollars look like?

A fun & entertaining look into a truly depressing statistic. See the video after the break.

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Gizmodo has gathered a small gallery of 6 images demonstrating both the skill and beauty behind some fantastic data visualizations.

Some of the visualization we’ve covered before, such as the Web Trends Map and (shown to the right) Click-stream visualization of Science Articles.

Artists Create Stunning Works Of Art From Mounds Of Data.

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Bestario, a Spanish infograhpics firm, has built a new website called “The Wainova World Atlas of Innovation”.  It attempts to map the world’s major science and business incubators with the professional associations linking them, but in the opinion of many winds up being a bit too much flash without any function.

The failing here illustrates an important point about information graphics in general: They’re only as good as the data they map. Without interesting data, they can’t tell us anything worth knowing–and the ultimate promise of infographics is that they provide us surprising insights that we would have otherwise missed. That’s why the best data visualization teams–such as that of The New York Times–are comprised equally of computer scientists, cartographers, journalists, and just a couple of designers

via An Online “Atlas of Innovation” | Design & Innovation | Fast Company.

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FlowingData has compiled a great list of 20 visualizations of various crime statistics.  Most of it is targeted to specific areas (a neighborhood, a city, etc) but some is more diverse like the “Flash Face” sketch artist tool.

There’s a lot of crime data. For almost every reported crime, there’s a paper or digital record of it somewhere, which means hundreds of thousands of data points – number of thefts, break-ins, assaults, and homicides as well as where and when the incidents occurred.

With all this data it’s no surprise that the NYPD (and more recently, the LAPD) took a liking to COMPSTAT, an accountability management system driven by data.

While a lot of this crime data is kept confidential to respect people’s privacy, there’s still plenty of publicly available records. Here we take a look at twenty visualization examples that explore this data.

via 20 Visualizations to Understand Crime | FlowingData.

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A quick tip from Chad Smashley on how to use VRay EXR’s in AfterEffects. (…)

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Another great Independence Day find from Mike Wirth, courtesy of Cool Infographics.
A great infographic for America’s Independence Day from Mike Wirth. (…)

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A live video demonstration of the Gaikai online gaming service is now online, and the results are impressive.

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Jose Alves da Silva talks about an interesting image he created called “Le Rabbit”, and how much difficulty he had in creating it. (…)

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Piero Zagami has amassed a huge collection of visualizations around the United Nations Security Council Resolutions.

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Businessweek has gathered up some of his greatest work and combined it with descriptions of the depth of meaning he was able to bring to it.

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An impressive video of a planetary implosion done by Mark Theriault while he worked for Blur over the course of three weeks.

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Roger Federer is now tied with Pete Sampras for the record of Most Grand Slam Titles (14).  But how did each athlete get there?  It’s an interesting question that Dave Potsiadlo decided to answer. (…)

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A map showing the density of four-year universities and colleges by U.S. state with Fall 2007 acceptance rates and 2008-09 tuition and fees.

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GOOD Magazine visualizes the world’s largest bankruptcies as sinking ships, sorted by size and sector, to powerful effect.

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A pair of articles from Marco Kuiper collect fantastic examples of Character Art from CGTalk, the popular forum that accompanies CGSociety. (…)

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The latest issue of the CGArena Animation Magazine is available, featuring some fantastic artwork and interviews.

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A new demonstration video from Orbaz technologies showcases the new functionality of Box#2, including soft-body simulations and cloth simulations with tearing.

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Olivier Charles discusses the process behind his incredible Master Award winning Stockholm Library picture.

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Francesco Mugnai has uploaded his 50 great examples of infographics to Closr.it to create an interactive panoramic graphic to explore.

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