Three firms control 89% of US soft drink sales [1]. This dominance is obscured from us by the appearance of numerous choices on retailer shelves. Steve Hannaford refers to this as “pseudovariety,” or the illusion of diversity, concealing a lack of real choice [2]. To visualize the extent of pseudovariety in this industry we developed a cluster diagram to represent the number of soft drink brands and varieties found in the refrigerator cases of 94 Michigan retailers, along with their ownership and/or licensing connections.

Pulse of the Nation is an Information Visualization illustrating the U.S. mood throughout the day inferred from Twitter.

Example:

Link:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/twittermood/

[via @on_the_media and @haydenth]

“The IT Dashboard is a website enabling federal agencies, industry, the general public and other stakeholders to view details of federal information technology investments.

The purpose of the Dashboard is to provide information on the effectiveness of government IT programs and to support decisions regarding the investment and management of resources. The Dashboard is now being used by the Administration and Congress to make budget and policy decisions.”

Link:
http://www.itdashboard.gov/

Neat interactive UX process visualization

[via http://uxbasis.hellogroup.com and http://userpathways.com]