In this page we present two Web portals which are collecting information and links to data visualizations published on the Internet. This resources can be searched by decision-makers and journalists in order to gain acess to a huge amount of existing visualizations related to a given controversy (i.e.: climate change). Moreover the websites offer the opportunity of to get RSS news updates on the latest visualization tools and outputs posted on the websites.

1.flowingdata

From the Flowing Data website: "FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better - mainly through data visualization. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all."

The website acts as a repository of data visualization projects that can be exlored by users through searches

An interesting is the possibility of getting lists of visualisation for a given topic/controvrsy. For example, as you can see in the below picture, flowing data provides a "catalogue" of relevant visualizations for the issue of "Energy Consumption Awareness". This feature helps the user to get a sort of digest of the best visualizations on the Web.

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2. VISUAL COMPLEXITY

VisualComplexity.com is a resource focused on networks visualizations for a vast array and always updated set of searchable topics

From the website:

"Visual Complexity intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field."

As in the example below on the Exxxon funding network for conservatinve foundations which are calling global warming a hoax, network viaualization featured in the Flowing Data Website shed light on very relavant aspects of the relationtishp among public policy, private companies, scientific expertise and the lobbying activity.

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