The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.

Visit the How Different Groups Spend Their Day Website

Nexus is a Facebook visualization which creates an interactive image with your friends’ connections and their shared interests.

Visit the Nexus Website

This awesome project was created by Sebastian Deutsch to visualize Twitter streams sync’d to music using HTML5 and Processing.

“We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen”.

“The original particle engine was ported from a Flex/AS3 project to javascript. We’re using processing.js for particle rendering on canvas which is a very useful graphics library created by John Resig. The music will only be played if the browser supports the audio tag. To detect if the audio or canvas feature is present we use the awesome modernizr library. We could have used a fallback solution like playing the sound via Flash. But this experiment is about HTML5 – and who needs Flash anyway? “.

Visit the HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment Website

Universe is a system that supports the exploration of personal mythology, allowing each of us to find our own constellations, based on our own interests and curiosities. Everyone’s path through Universe is different, just as everyone’s path through life is different. Using the metaphor of an interactive night sky, Universe presents an immersive environment for navigating the world’s contemporary mythology, as found online in global news and information from Daylife.

Universe was conceived and created by Jonathan Harris, in conjunction with Daylife, whose amazing database of real time global news information powers the project.

Universe is divided into nine “Stages”, each of which offers a different window into the data. Transitions between the stages are fast and fluid, and controlled through a menu of clickable constellations running along the bottom edge of the screen.

Universe is a Java applet, created using Processing, the open source software initiative by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. The global news data that powers Universe comes entirely from Daylife, a company dedicated to creating interesting ways to explore and experience the world of news. If you are an artist or developer interested in using the Daylife API for a project of your own, please contact partners@daylife.com.

Visit the Universe Website

An epic journey revealing the secrets, patterns and hidden rhythms of our lives from a striking new perspective.

Join host Andrew Marr as he discovers how each and every one of us is interconnecting making Britain what it is today.

Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways.

Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.

On a typical day, over 400 ships pass through the straits off Dover. This visualisation shows 24 hours worth of shipping recorded as it passes through the Channel.

Visit the Britain From Above Website

Your greeted with the cryptic message, “The surface of the earth holds a message for you. You just need to look a little closer.” Very Matrix like, but true with this very clever visualization. As the Jesse Vig the developer stated, “While working on a different Google Maps project, I noticed that a number of buildings looked like letters of the alphabet when viewed from above. This is the point where I should have just said ‘hmmm, good observation’ and gone on with my life. But I didn’t and that’s why this website is here.”

This reminds me of the flickr groups that take photos of things that look like letters in order to construct words. However, this is a wonderful interactive version of that idea. I found the site well done and easy to use the first time. Great job Jesse!

Visit the geoGreeting Website