Google Flu Trends uses “aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity” in a certain country. Basically, this app consists of an interactive map that responds to your cursor as shown in the screenshot. When you place your cursor over some country you’ll get an indication of the flu intensity in that country from “˜Low’ [...]
BreathingEarth is a real-time simulation tool that shows stats like CO2 emissions, birth and death rates, and CO2 emitted per person. The stats are given both for each country and worldwide. The data for stats comes from reputable sources like CIA World Factbook and United Nations Statistics Division. To view stats for any country, just [...]
DataMasher is an interesting website which lets citizens visualize and play with the data sets released by US government everyday. The data, which is usually sourced from data.gov, contains stats like poverty rates, unemployment rates, obesity in the US and much more. Users can combine these data sets and create nice looking mashups which contain [...]
Google Internet Stats is a service recently launched by Google and I have to say it’s pretty neat. It aggregates internet stats and facts across various sectors like technology, consumer trends, media consumption and media landscape in a simple interface. The data is sourced from a plethora of online and offline vendors which includes BusinessWeek, [...]
History Tree is a nice add on for Firefox which lets you visualize your browsing history. It displays the websites in a hierarchical structure, hence the name History ‘tree’. It can show such four different history views, show you the screenshot of every page you’ve visited and even pages which you can no longer navigate [...]
ChartGo gives you the ability to create bar graphs, excel graphs, line graphs, area graphs and pie charts. Very useful web app to do your graphing & charting online. You can either create a custom graph or choose one from sample graphs and edit them according to your needs. First, paste the data in the [...]
About:me is a new Firefox add-on that lets you view your past browsing history and download activity in a way that makes sense. Unlike default browsing history feature, About:me presents browsing history on an easy to grasp graphs from where you can easuly see the websites you visit most including the individual pages visited most [...]
KmlFactBook is a unique site which lets you load data sets from CIA Factbook and WRI Earthtrends into Google Maps and create cool presentations from them. You can view facts such as population of various countries, their GDP, immigration rate and a lot more on Google Maps and on Google Earth. If you would like [...]
NextBigSound is a site, which as they mention, provides actionable intelligence for the music industry by tracking the behavior of music buffs online. It tracks the number of plays, views, fans, comments, mentions, and other key metrics for 486,602 artists across major web properties like Facebook, MySpace, Last.fm, Twitter, and more. Music fans can subscribe [...]
TrendCounter provides a number of free site counter widgets. The counters show the number of visitors has received and are really easy to embed. In addition, each counter can be quickly customized to match the look and feel of the website. No registration required to get the counter widget. The counter starts counting visitors as [...]