Where did my tax dollars go?
In the spirit of government and spending, check out this great interactive web site to see where your tax money goes. Source:
Category Archives: Cool Site
World of Tweets Visualization
A buddy of mine back east sent me this link to a pretty cool HTML5 application that does a heat map of tweets in near real-time. Interesting to see a [...]
A Visual Dashboard of How 530 CFOs See the Economy
This is a pretty cool dashboard on how the CFO’s of many leading companies see how the economy is doing. It is done over quarters which allows you to see [...]
mintdata Spending Trends Online
Lots and lots of people are using Mint.com to manage their personal finances. Heck, why not. It is an amazing online service and it is free. What you may not [...]
Chipmunks are smart critters–Look at their representation of flight schedules
I was browsing through some cool sites this morning and came across a cute little chipmunk. This chipmunk as a great new flight search tool that represents flight schedules on [...]
Energy Subsidies Black, Not Green
Sometimes a tradition bar chart doesn’t give you everything you need to know to be able to compare the facts. A study released by the Environmental Law Institute, a nonpartisan [...]
World Cup Social Media Analytics – How We Did It #worldcup #analytics @extendedresults @microsoft
A good colleague of mine over at Microsoft, Bruno Aziza, gave me a call on a Sunday night to discuss Extended Results partnering with Microsoft on the development of a [...]
BING Finance, S&P 500 Companies
This is a very cool visual explorer example from BING. Check it out. http://www.bing.com/visualsearch?q=S%26P+500+stocks&g=sp500_stocks&FORM=pgbar1
824,000 Will Disappear On February 5 Nice chart!
Well, our government really needs a good business intelligence solution since they found that over 800,000 jobs were miss reported over the past year. But, I have to admit, they [...]
Microsoft’s new EcoSystem: Earth
Just finished reading and watching an article on Geospatial analysis using some Microsoft tools that was shown at the University of Washington. This is very cool and I think a [...]
