miguelrios: Below is a visual of the Tweets from VA and Washington, DC one minute after the August 23 #earthquake. This is an official Twitter visualization we created to see how far and fast a tweet can travel. This is part of what we do on Twitter’s analytics team. Join us: http://twitter.c... Read more →

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Early tonight the USGS released data summarizing Americans’ responses to today’s earthquake by ZIP code. The agency uses a complicated formula that’s different from the commonly known Richter magnitude scale, but basically the data show how people experienced the event. Here’s a quick map I mad... Read more →

This 2011 earthquakes map, rendered in Google Earth, shows just how rare seismic events are on the East Coast:  View larger version UPDATE: Adding historical data I discover… This map shows earthquake hazards in various parts of the country:  The resulting maps are derived from seismic hazard... Read more →

Dozens of American soccer players are members of international clubs, especially in Europe. Germany’s Bundesliga and England’s Premiere League have the the most: 15 each.   Download data | Source: Yanks-Abroad.com Made with Fusion Tables Read more →

Using tripsQ, I mapped two years (42,000 miles and 8,500kg in carbon emissions) of my travel by Foursquare checkins:   Read more →

This scatter plot shows how major Hollywood movies performed in 2010. The x-axis, from left to right, shows more money spent to make each movie. The y-axis, from bottom to top, shows more gross sales for each movie. I’ve filtered out movies that were below the median for budget and sales: about... Read more →

Stephen Colbert this week used word clouds — visual representations of word frequencies in selected blocks of text — to tell a story about his political action committee. Colbert recently asked supporters to submit suggestions for the PAC’s mission, and he wanted to visualize their responses fo... Read more →

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On the presidential campaign trail, Gov. Rick Perry is touting the Texas’ relatively low unemployment rate. Here’s how the rate has changed during his decade in office. It wasn’t until 2007 that Texas’ jobs picture looked better than the country as a whole:  View larger version. UPDATE: Followi... Read more →