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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.
Mapping the Pavement Quality of Streets in L.A. -
L.A. Street QualGrades [latimes.com], developed by the Los Angeles Times Data Desk, maps the pavement quality rating for each of the 68,000 street segments in L.
YouTube Trends Map: Explore the Most Popular Videos by Location -
The YouTube Trends Map [youtube.com] is a visualization of the most shared and viewed videos in various regions across the United States over the last 12 to 24 hours.
Bolides: Explore the Eye-Witnessed Meteorites that Collided with Earth -
Bolides - Visualizing Meteorites [bolid.es] by data visualization designer Carlo Zapponi visualizes all historical occurrences of meteorites that collided with the Earth and were eye-witnessed when falling and hitting the ground.
Here is Today: Comparing One Day to One Eon -
Here is Today [hereistoday.com] by graphic designer Luke Twyman is a simple yet elegant timeline rendition that puts into context the different scales of time.
Where is the King? Live Crowd Visualization in Amsterdam -
Waar is de Koning? [waarisdekoning.nl], which can be translated as "Where is the King", was designed by Interactive Design Agency Clever Franke to map the movements and activities of the crowds as they gather in the city of Amsterdam today.
Chesapeake Bay Grasses: Tracking Underwater Vegetation over Time -
Chesapeake Bay Grasses [chesapeakebay.net], designed by Stamen Design is an interactive map that tracks a quite exotic subject: the changes of the underwater grasses at Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States.
Connected China: Explaining the Players and Networks within China -
The beautifully crafted app Connected China [reuters.com], designed by Fathom Information Design, tracks and visualizes the people, institutions and relationships that form China's elite power structure.
TweetMap ALPHA: Querying a Massive Amount of Tweets on a Map -
The impressive TweetMap ALPHA [harvard.edu], developed by Harvard University's Center for Geographic Analysis, is based on a dataset of about 95 million tweets, which can be dynamically queried by time, by location or by keyword.
The Largest Web Page on the Internet: 7 Billion People on One Page -
7 Billion World [7billionworld.com] displays 7 billion people together on a single webpage.
Developed by Worldometers - which themselves were originally posted in the good year of 2005 -, the web page itself is generated through some small programming code, yet is claimed to be 1 mile (1.
