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How Half a Second of High Frequency Stock Trading Looks Like

The movie shown below, developed by a real-time trading software developer Nanex, shows the stock trading activity in Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) as it occurred during a particular half a second on May 2, 2013.

Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts

Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500.

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For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap

More than 700,00 people live in assisted-living centers, where they get help with daily activities like bathing and dressing. Most of the residents have multiple chronic health conditions.

Metropolitain: Exploring the Paris Metro in 3D

Metropolitain [metropolitain.io], developed by French data visualization studio Dataveyes, provides a dynamic 2D and 3D view on the hectic and feverish metro of the city of Paris.

An Illustrated Guide to Income in the United States

The 2012 Feltron Annual Report has been Released

If your interested in the life of Nicholas Feltron, or just want to enjoy some compelling infographics, somewhere in February-March, one can look forward to the next version of the Feltron year report. It is then good to know that today, the 2012 version [feltron.com] has been released.

Mapping the Relationships between the Artists who Invented Abstraction

Did Mondrian know Kandinsky? The Inventing Abstraction Network Diagram forms the center piece of a new exhibition at MoMA that celebrates the centennial anniversary of the concept of abstraction.

Asterank: an Accurate 3D Model of the Asteroids in our Solar System

Asterank 3D Asteroid Orbit Space Simulation, developed by software engineer Ian Webster, is a 3D WebGL-based model of the first 5 planets and the 30 most valuable asteroids, together with their respective orbits in our inner solar system.

OrgOrgChart: The Dynamic Organization of an Organization

The Organic Organization Chart, developed by Justin Matejkaat Autodesk Research, shows what a Human Resources manager dreams at night.
The animated force-directed network diagram shows how a company’s structure evolves over time, here the daily organizational changes within the company Autodesk over the last 4 years.

StatMilk: Football Statistics Visualized

As an increasing number of sports fans and reporters tend to rely on statistics to gauge the quality of their division, teams and players as well as their upcoming opponents, there is an expectation that team sports performance data should be presented in more accessible and usable ways to the masses. StatMilk, developed by Dave Marks, is a new sports analytics platform that aims to replace the mundane, tabular data displays of sports statistics with a sophisticated, interactive dashboard.

Revealing All the (512) Possible Paths to Reach the White House

512 Paths to the White House [nytimes.com], designed by Mike Bostock and Shan Cartner from the New York Times Graphics Department, shows all the possible paths to victory available for either presidential candidate.

How States Have Shifted between Voting Democratic and Republican

The New York Times today released an informative yet beautiful infographic titled “Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted” [nytimes], designed by Mike Bostock and Shan Cartner. The interactive, vertical Sankey diagram reveals the party-based voting patterns of all US states during the last presidential elections.

Conflict History: All Human Conflicts on a Single Map

Conflict History [conflicthistory.com], developed by TecToys, summarizes all major human conflicts onto a single world map - from the historical wars way before the birth of Christ, until the drone attacks in Pakistan that are still happening today. The whole interactive map is build upon data retrieved from Google and Freebase open data services.