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The earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 13 January also affected many outlying towns - the extent of which is only being discovered days after the disaster.
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This info graphic have important business and cultural implications. The future trend of this data will have even greater impact.
The yellow dots are aircraft. It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in theworld, condensed down to about 2 minutes. You can tell it was summertime in the north by the sun's footprint over the planet. You could seethat it didn't quite set in the extreme north and it didn't quite rise inthe extreme south. Notice that as evening approaches, the traffic is predominantly from the USto Europe and when daylight comes, the traffic switches and itis predominantly from Europe to the US.
ChartsBin meets a growing collection of experiments, performed with free software, playing with the creation of interactive charts and thematic maps based on statistical tables. For example, here are some samples.