Can visualization help people think collectively? Can visualization move beyond numbers into the realm of words and images?

Create infographics and data visualizations.

Interactive wealth map

BI tools

Discover New Music.

Storytelling with Data:

Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Keeping our tools’ statistical content up-to-date and making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.
Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics in colorful graphics.
All with the intention of being a “fact tank” that promotes a fact based world view.

Data visualization from the washington post on top secret data surrounding 9/11

PSFK is a New York City based trends research and innovation company that publishes a daily news site, provides trends research and innovation consultancy, manages a network of freelance experts and hosts idea-generating events. We aim to inspire our readers, our clients and our guests to make things better – whether that’s better products, better services, better lives or a better world.

Resources for Spreadsheet Analysts: An organized selection of tools for spreadsheet analytics (business analytics in spreadsheets). Excel add-ins and templates for analytics and productivity. This site is maintained by the Business Analytics program at the University of San Francisco, School of Business and Professional Studies.

GIS mapping services from PolicyMap allow you to map data quickly and easily. Our interactive geographic information systems show a visual representation of statistics over different geographic areas. View demographic maps, see crime rates, map real estate trends and more.

How do you transform your data into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action? This report will help you understand the considerations, and walks through the software that can help - including Excel, Google Docs, DeltaGraph, SmartDraw, ManyEyes, Swivel, Google Maps, Microsoft MapPoint, and more.

Live Tweets all over the world

The fun way to see tweets like if you were in the Twittosphere!

Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness!

Based on origami aesthetic, a beautiful tweet visualization tool.

Shared data visualization and discovery. Upload data sets anonymously and choose a way to visualize it. I've been longing for something like this for some time. Thanks IBM!

Another Twitter data visualization tool.

A Twitter search tool that uses Venn diagrams to visualize the results.

Vic's compendium of software that supports knowledge management and information organisation in graphical form.

Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts bar graphs are being used every day, in project on possible occasion.

The NNDB Mapper allows you to explore NNDB visually by graphing the connections between people. Over 34,000 individuals are listed in our network.