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Great video from JESS3 on Wikipedia: celebrates it's 10th anniversary and explores the history and inner-workings.
Data visualization of global Android device activations from October 2008 to January 2011. Back in December 2010, Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, tweeted that Google was activating 300,000 Android phones per day, surpassing Apple and BlackBerry.
Pennant is an iPad app that visualizes the data from the 115,000 MLB games since 1951.
The sport is the same, but the game has changed. The Super Bowl is as much about the ads and the surrounding experiences as it is about the score on the field. In the last few years, there have been some inventive digital experiences that visualize chatter among other things. Here's a few from Super Bowl 2011.
Fan Map: Super Bowl Edition brought to you by the mapping team at ERSIBrand Bowl 2011 brought to you by Boston-based ad agency Mullen and Radian6
Go inside the Super Bowl brought to you by Visa and Twitter