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Interactive United States population density map.

Deaths from smoking across the six towns, 2002-6 average annual rate per 100,000.

US political party affiliations for religious traditions (in contrast to <a href="http://datavis/edit.php?id=123">this bubble chart</a>).

Percentage of 11 year olds achieving Level 4 or above in Key Stage 2 tests for English and mathematics in England.

Number of people with dementia in Kent by level of severity and age.

Location of high-tech companies and size of workforce.

Metropolitan 'megaregions' of America.

Breakdown by area of under-18 profiles on national DNA database.

Comparing total recorded offence trend within each CDRP within Leicestershire compared to the overall county trend.

Proportion of average weekly household expenditure by rural and urban areas, 2005-6.

Emissions map of Carbon Monoxide per square kilometre.

Google map generated by MySociety's <a href="http://www.groupsnearyou.com/" target="_blank">http://www.groupsnearyou.com/</a> to show areas covered by various groups within a local vicinity.

An interactive dashboard, showing UK fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq. Users can change the timeframe to explore changes over time.

This is a tool designed to explore the history of visualization by placing interactive milestones along a timeline. The milestones include graphs, maps and technology that have made possible the change in visualization methods. Each milestone is linked to a detailed explanation and a visual example.

Percentage change in UK house prices over time for data from three sources.

Dan Vicker's Output Area Classification (OAC) layered on top of Google map using Maptube.

This visualisation presents the number of foreign high school students in the US in 2008 and contrast it with the number of US students going abroad. The total volume of students is represented by the area covered by the lines.

The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) now provides crime mapping for all of the 43 police forces in England and Wales. Residents can search for a village, town, or postcode to access the latest information on a range of crime types and compare with other neighborhoods. Data is mapped using Bing Maps, with time series trends shown for the different crime types.

Map showing the ratio of overseas migrants to internal migrants across Local Authority Districts in England.

The three maps show Local Authorities with (1) high levels of BNP membership, (2) large non-white populations, and (3) both high levels of BNP membership and large non-white populations. The use of the blue, red and overlap purple colours make this a geographic "Venn diagram", allowing viewers to quickly identify areas with high levels on two separate datasets.

Mood map showing sentiment about job security in East of England (as gathered from online BBC survey).

Diagram showing location and type of office space available in San Francisco skyscrapers.

This infographic presents the final medal count for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in several dimensions. The central part shows the distribution of medals by continent using proportional bubbles to reflect the count. The inner circles of these bubbles are pie charts split by the type of medal. The same technique is applied in the other dimensions presented: medals by geopolitical groups (China, EU, ex soviet republics) , by sport (swimming, athletics, gymnastics) , by GDP and by population. It also contains full information of the final medal count by country and a day-by-day gold medal count (annotated bar char in the lower half). All parts of the visualisation are commented to give an overall picture of the event.

Fuel use of various modes of transport.

Percentage of carbon cost for various activities involved in making one bottle of Innocent smoothie vs one can of Coke.<br /><br />There is a major misleading aspect to this visualisation: The use of varying widths for the two bars suggests to the viewer that the coke can produces significantly more CO2 than the smoothie bottle. Examination of the text shows that this is not the case.

Ethnic minority breakdown in a Rotherham ward.

In the majority of cases qualitative data is presented like this. It is the text in its raw form although the quotes will be organised by theme, which is an important part of the analysis phase. It is also common to anonymise the quotes. In some cases, it is best to present the data like this; it contains the richness of meaning.

This visualisation is a combination of an area graph and a time line. The areas here are used to represent the gross box office results of movies relased between 1986 and 2008. The visualisation is enhanced with links to reviews of the movies included.

Brainstorm of sustainability issues.

This time line relies on the use of area charts on several depth levels. Each chart presents the number of stories per topic against time giving a good sense of the evolution trough time of media coverage of some recent news.

Votes by state for all US presidential elections.

Map of London showing travel time from various locations to Department of Transport, Pimlico.

The most frequently used words in a text. The Wordle can visualise the relationship between a column of words and column of numbers. Or, it can strip out the punctuation and show word frequency within a text.

Map of deprivation with zoom-ins for key areas.