The Art of Data?

Wealth Inequality?

Experience UVA?

These guys "UVA" have some impressive works! From Massive Attack to Jay-Z. Check out how they mixed old and new technology to create new experience in the name of LIGHT!

Tracking Twitter Visual Growth?

An impressive way of tracking Twitter Visual exponentially growing user base by Ben Sandofsky, an engineer at Twitter. Who still think DATA is not important or beautiful?

Twitter Code Swarm from Ben Sandofsky on Vimeo.

Where will Jobs be in 2018?

NPR put together data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to show where Employment from Manufacturing, to Education, to Health, to Technology will be by 2018. Interactive here

Abracadabra?

Abracadabra is one of many Chris Harrison project that demo what the future device could be with wireless, high-precision, and unpowered finger input for very small Mobile Devices.

More Details in PDF here.

Where is the highest or lowest unemployment?

Good news is not around the corner anytime soon... with constant increase of unemployment.
At least this will give anyone interested in seeing which state and cities have the highest and lowest percentage of unemployment visually. Oklahoma City anyone?


by GOOD + Gavin Potenza

Healthcare US : Pay most and Die youngest?

With all the news about Heathcare Reform in America. One could only wonder what other countries such as UK, France, and Singapore stack up in terms of expenditure on health % GDP, expenditure on health per capita US$, expenditure from private sector, infant mortality per 1,000 live births, and life expectancy at birth? Why American paid the most and have the shortest life expectancy?

Flowcharts for Troubleshooting?

From Sony to IBM to eMachines to Gateway to Dell to HP, Morris Rosenthal series of Flowcharts will be extremely helpful for troubleshooting your tech world! Check it out some sample below!



Motherboard, CPU, RAM Diagnostics

Network Troubleshooting Flowchart

Boot Failure Troubleshooting Flowchart

Is your car a CASH for CLUNKERS?

Top 10 Trad-in

10. Ford Windstar
09. Chevrolet C1500 2WD
08. Ford F-150 4WD
07. Chevrolet Blazer 4WD
06. Ford Explorer 2WD
05. Dodge Grand Caravan 2WD
04. Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD
03. Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD
02. Ford F-150 2WD
01. Ford Explorer 4WD

Top 10 Purchased

10. Chevrolet Cobalt
09. Honda Fit
08. Dodge Caliber
07. Ford Escape
06. Hyundai Elantra
05. Toyota Camry
04. Toyota Prius
03. Honda Civic
02. Ford Focus
01. Toyota Corolla


Here is a quick visual by GOOD and Gavin Potenza.

If your car not on the list you can try here CARS.gov

Where your Federal Tax Dollars Go?

What are two things everyone can't escape? DEATH & TAXES! Just stumble into this interesting visual graphic take a look below.

How do you spend your paycheck?

Not everyone will have the same percentage but most people get hit by 5 major expenditures:

1. Housing +- 34.1%
2. Transportation +- 17.6%
3. Food +- 12.4%
4. Insurance +- 10.8%
5. Healthcare +- 5.7%

It's freighten to see that there is not much left for saving. Is this THE AMERICAN DREAM?

Why Microsoft want your Hohm?

Microsoft just launch Hohm beta for people to track, plan, save, and share their energy consumption. Google was first to launch such similar services called Google's PowerMeter.
Below are two links for anyone dying to find out how energy efficient is your home?



Learn More : Microsoft Hohm
Learn More : Google PowerMeter

How to track USAspending?

Finally thanks to The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award: such as...

Federal Spending FY 2009 YTD

	Contracts	$221,177,641,981
	Grants	$237,027,203,718
	Loans	$63,771,782
	Insurance	$2,062,647,048
	Direct Payments	$41,687,210,164
	Other Assistance	$37,345,915,842

TOP 5 Assistance Recipients FY 2009 YTD

1	DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES	$18,908,037,649
2	NEW YORK STATE DEPT OF HEALTH	$18,335,672,042
3	TEXAS HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION	$13,514,862,175
4	PENNSYLVANIA DEPT OF PUBLIC WELFARE	$11,168,181,944
5	LOUISIANA DEPT OF HEALTH & HOSPITALS	$5,031,984,907

Top 5 Contractors FY 2009 YTD

1	LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION	$20,362,164,557
2	THE BOEING COMPANY	$14,730,265,990
3	NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION	$8,672,131,373
4	GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION	$7,794,041,496
5	RAYTHEON COMPANY	$5,951,997,077

Learn more. USAspending.gov

H1H1 Swine FluTracker?

The World Health Organization just declares the first flu pandemic in 41 year! The Hong Kong flu of 1968 was the last pandemic which killed about 1 million people. Ordinary flu kills about 250,000 to 500,000 people each year. WHO finally decided to raise the alert from 5 to 6 to alert the public about the H1N1 Pandemic as a result of 74 countries had reported nearly 27,737 cases of swine flu, including 141 deaths. Read More

Dr.Henry Niman a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza labs and Google complied map and data to track the H1N1 SwineFlu. Explore Here.

What's the health of the nation's electrical systems?

NPR.org put together five interesting way to visualize and interact with the health of the US electrical systems.  Such as: 

1. The Grid
   
2. Sources of Power: Coal, Nuclear, Gas, Hydro, Oil
   
3. Power Plants
   
4. Solar Power
   
5. Wind Power
   

Explore More

Countries Affected? Influenza History? How Swine Flu Spread?

Countries Affected:


Influenza History:


How Swine Flu Spread:


Follow the link below to see more and trace the H1N1 all the way back to March 28, 2009.

source: news-press

Google + Statistics = Unemployment Visualizations?

Google is using public data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population to charts the data so anyone can easily compare and visualize. And soon we can use
statistics from CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers’ salaries, number of wildfires, and even for prices of cookies!

Explore Here

"Where is everybody going right now?"

Eating? Shopping? or Partying?
Soon anyone from any city will be able to see "live intelligent data" showing where most popular restaurants, popular retails, or popular bars. By using cellphone data, Sense
led by the 35-year-old Skibiski, will be able to pin point "HOT" activities in any city around the world. Others application in the future include track transit systems, study the spread of crime or disease, and even monitor and optimize the movements of workers.
See an example below by Sense Network.



Learn More : Sense Networks

Where U.S. Workers Come From?

NYT posted a visual interactive map of "Where U.S. Workers Come From".

Below is two data set. Explore NYT for more details.

Top 10 Countries

Top ten	Number of workers (+/- Margin of error)
1.Mexico	5,286,400	+/- 1%
2.Philippines	848,800	+/- 2%
3.India	746,200	+/- 2%
4.China	653,000	+/- 2%
5.El Salvador	580,100	+/- 2%
6.Vietnam	526,000	+/- 2%
7.Germany	476,100	+/- 2%
8.South Korea	408,400	+/- 2%
9.Cuba	399,300	+/- 2%
10.Canada	364,900	+/- 2%

Top 20 occupations for those born in all countries

Only occupations with at least 500 workers are shown.

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Occupation	Number of workers (+/- Margin of error)
1. Clerical and administrative staff	1,655,200	+/- 1%
2. Sales-related occupations	1,464,900	+/- 1%
3. Managers and administrators	1,337,300	+/- 1%
4. Skilled construction workers	1,180,300	+/- 1%
5. Industrial equipment operators	1,025,100	+/- 1%
6. Cooks and other food preparers	990,900	+/- 1%
7. Drivers and other transportation workers	722,200	+/- 2%
8. Mechanics and equipment repairers	589,500	+/- 2%
9. Teachers	516,200	+/- 2%
10. Construction laborers	500,200	+/- 2%
11. Scientists and quantitative analysts	473,900	+/- 2%
12. Other manual laborers	455,300	+/- 2%
13. Janitors	446,500	+/- 2%
14. Assembly line workers	390,000	+/- 2%
15. Accountants and other financial specialists	377,200	+/- 2%
16. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants	372,900	+/- 2%
17. Computer software developers	368,600	+/- 2%
18. Household service staff	357,400	+/- 2%
19. Engineers and architects	351,000	+/- 3%
20. Gardeners and groundskeepers	339,000	+/- 3%