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Energy Map of America

Posted on August 31st by Forrest Diamond.
Where does our energy come from? The Energy Map of America is an interactive display of all the major sources of power superimposed on a political map of the ...
Showing Contributors to 2006 candidates for California State Senate by Electric Utilities interests (minimum contribution: $0)

Mapping the Maze that is Political Contributions

Posted on August 25th by Forrest Diamond.
Political contributions can get very confusing. Although required to make their funding public, it can seem as though the government and parties try to make it as hard to understand ...
Bugaboo World Map

Day Trips show Maps as Art and Interface

Posted on July 11th by Forrest Diamond.
Bugaboo, a Dutch stroller company, recently added a complimentary site focused on 'Day Trips'. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, a day trip is a little ...
How far can I go?

Visualizing Travel: How far can I go?

Posted on July 6th by Forrest Diamond.
How far can I go? is a travel site from Air New Zealand that offers travelers a unique perspective on their travel arrangements. Instead of finding flights based on ...
Being Green

Being Green

Posted on July 4th by Forrest Diamond.
Make Me Sustainable is a new site that allows users to find out their "carbon fingerprint," advises them on how to reduce that footprint and charts their progress as ...
Map Lat49

Making Money off Mashups

Posted on July 3rd by Forrest Diamond.
People have been building exciting and creative web mashupss, but most mashup developers haven't yet figured out how to make them profitable. Fortunately, IDELIX Software has developed ...
A picture of the 3D verion of the Media Watch on Climate Change

Following the Media’s Coverage on Climate Change

Posted on July 2nd by Forrest Diamond.
In a similar vein to last week's post. Idiom.at's new award winning Media Watch on Climate Change is an original web application that allows users to view current ...
Visitorville

City as Visualization Platform - Digg City & VisitorVille

Posted on June 28th by Forrest Diamond.
Digg City is a visualization developed in response to Digg's recent API contest. It works by utilizing the image of a city block - with ten different buildings symbolizing ...
Clusterball

Clusterball: A new view of Wikipedia

Posted on June 28th by Forrest Diamond.
Chris Harrison designed an illuminating visualization of three levels within Wikipedia and their interconnections. His design starts with one large circle, the center of which holds the parent topic. ...