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Create your own: animation

Animations can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel, with the output saved for each different time-point, and an image editor or language such as Adobe Flash used to splice them into an animation. Online tools include Google Motion Charts.

3D London maps, overlaid with air quality data

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Air quality data mapped across London for key pollutants. StreetView style visualisation of data at building level (3D).

Average rating: 8.2 (6 votes)

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Gapminder compound chart

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Interactive/animated multiple-axis chart used on Gapminder site, here showing % Urban Population plotted against Life Expectancy.

Average rating: 6 (4 votes)

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Interactive trend chart

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

Average rating: 2 (1 votes)

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Language usage chart

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Charts the usage of certain phrases over time on historical and contemporary sources.

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SMS activity video

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SMS activity in Amsterdam over New Year's Eve.

Average rating: 7 (1 votes)

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Target growth across America

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Animation showing growth of target stores across America, from Flowing Data.

Average rating: 8 (1 votes)

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Video of Twitter activity

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Animated map of Twitter usage during Barak Obama's inauguration.

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