The 3 coupled interactive maps "What educational policy change looks like" [lonelydatum.com], developed by Gar Liu, reveals the impact of Michigan state to increase the minimum score needed on the state test to be considered "proficient". The maps provide an overview of how the impact of this legislation varied from district to district and

Tweet Ping [tweetping.net], developed by Franck Ernewein seems like an excellent wallpaper backdrop for your secret data visualization dungeon.

Next to the obvious tweet messages flashing by on a world density map, various statistical measures (e.g. the number of messages, words and characters) are displayed in a dashboard interface at the bottom.

Emissions Globe [emissionsglobe.com] developed by interactive media designer Robbie Tilton is a WebGL-based 3D data visualization that reveals the world countries with the largest carbon emissions.

Next to the more experiential 3D globe representation that aims to bring awareness to the massive amount of pollution human society generates, more

Warming World [newscientistapps.com], developed by Chris Amico and Peter Aldhous for the New Scientist, shows the distribution of ambient temperatures around the world, ranging from 1951 to now. The graphs and maps highlight the changes relative to the average temperatures measured between 1951 to 1980.

Users can click anywhere on the map and

The recent academic paper "Multiplexed Volumetric Bar-Chart Chip for Point-of-Care Diagnostics" [nature.com], developed by researchers at the Department of Nanomedicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston, Texas, presents the research behind the V-Chip (short for Volumetric Bar-Chart Chip).

The chip is about the size of a

Bloomberg Billionaires [bloomberg.com], designed by the Bloomberg Visual Data team, is a daily-updated interactive dashboard of the world's richest people.

Many filtering and graphing features are relatively hidden behind beautiful buttons, such as a number-only view in the ranking list, and the variable choice of the vertical and horizontal axes

US Presidential Inauguration Speeches: How Does Obama's Second Compare? [guardian.co.uk], designed by data visualization wizard Santiago Ortiz, compares the US Presidential Inauguration Speeches since Richard Nixon became president in 1969.

One can filter for those words spoken by one single president by selecting the respective president name in

The collection of photos titled "Higgs Boson - Le Monde" [zimandzou.fr] by French graphic design office Zim & Zou was created to illustrate an article in a magazine of the newspaper Le Monde.

The depicted paper and tinfoil -based infographic artefacts each illustrate a specific characteristic of the Higgs Boson phenomenon. For instance, in one

European Football Transfer Tool [signal-noise.co.uk], developed by information design studio Signal | Noise, is a clever online data visualization of all the transfers throughout Europe's top football leagues, such as the "Premier League" of England, "Serie A" of Italy, "Eredivisie" of The Netherlands, "Primera Liga" of Spain, Germany's

Novel Views [neoformix.com], developed by Jeff Clarck, showcases 4 different visualizations of the text appearing in the novel Les Misérables, which itself spans about 48 books and 365 chapters.

The "Character Mentions" graphic shows where the names of the primary characters are mentioned within the text. The "Radial Word Connections" reveals