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Global search volume by language
To show off their new toy that is WebGL, a 3D graphics API for JavaScript, the Google Data Arts Team maps global search volume by language: The Search Globe visualizes searches from one day, and shows...
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Google Map Maker edits in real-time
Google Map Maker is a simple tool that lets you draw your own map and share that map with others. The Pulse view lets you see how people are making use of that tool in real-time. On top is the Google...
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Misery index based on perceived temperature
Late last year, Cameron Beccario made a wind map for earth, inspired by an earlier work by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg. Beccario has been slowly adding overlays to the piece to show more...
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Homicide Monitor shows distribution of violence worldwide
It's difficult to grasp the severity of homicide around the world. Homicide Monitor attempts to at least provide a little bit of sense of what's going on. The Homicide Monitor is the most comprehensive...
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Satellite time-lapse of Earth
Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second time-lapse of Earth using a day of data from Japan’s weather satellite Himawari-8. The experiment is called Glittering...
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Listen to radio around the globe
Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says. Pan the globe and listen to live radio at all the green dots. Tags: globe, radio
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