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Trendsmap.com is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world.

Make a map with your data to show trends and facts with interactive mapping tool.

"The Internet is a strange, huge beast. It is getting bigger, faster and more mobile each day. Ferocious social networks fight each other to be on top and gain more of our attention and personal information. An entire economy is generated from our browsing habits. This is the face of the Internet now. "

Oomfo is a new (beta) add-on site for PowerPoint. Once Oomfo is downloaded users can then create excellent looking, interactive, animated graphs.

Building data visualisations

Interactive charts, no log in required at the moment

Interesting tool to graph your Twitter Stats including tweets per hour, tweets per month, reply startistics etc. No login required.

Interesting tool to graph your Twitter Stats including tweets per hour, tweets per month, reply startistics etc. No login required.

Linked from a Fast Company article. Build charts.

Creating beautiful maps with your personalized rich-content points of interest, is now easy as blogging. Include Sound Video Forms Links Text & Images. Use in education.

"Preparation for webinar series focusing on using GAFE to teach writing. A curated list of detailed features (that are easy to use and access) within Google Docs." Educators may want to know how to use these features to jazz up writing assignments and make a more creative, personalized document."

"This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1536 genres by Spotify. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.   Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like."

Totally cool share, showing it to my data visualizations students.

You have been able to create graphic organizers with Google Drawings. for a while. Graphic organizers are a great tool to share information, explain a concept, or illustrate a relationship using elements including images, shapes, text, colors, and connecting lines. They are useful in education over a wide range of year levels and learning ares. There are many useful tools for creating graphic organizers and teachers should investigate them to see which ones best fit their needs. This post explains how to use Google Drawings, with directions on how to create graphic organizers using this tool. It includes a help guide and a recorded webinar as well as 30 free sample graphic organizers that you can copy, use, and modify as needed.