Then, rather than building polygons that are mostly invisible on top of each other, the engineers devised a way to render in each tile only graphic data that are actually visible at a given moment.

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Click here or on the graphic below to interact with the data and compare exchange performance based on number of IPOs, amount raised, market cap, stock performance and across different industries.

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More prosaically, perhaps, graphic designer Nicholas Felton compiled various biographical data to produce a visually spectacular tribute to his father after he died.

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You can however, dissect the total data by category in our interactive graphic .

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Onlive, a Cloud gaming startup, is one company which is attempting to remove the underlying requirement of powerful graphic processing by shifting it to Cloud and streaming the processed data to clients over a high speed Internet connection.

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The WSJ tested out over 100 Android and iPhone applications to see what kind of data leakage was happening, and has a fun interactive graphic showing which apps leak what information.

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Each time you jump while snowboarding or skying, the accelerometer data from the goggles is sent to the handset which posts a graphic to Facebook showing the distance, height and duration of your flight.

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So a graphic, in its early form, is almost pure illustration, and evolves into a more data-heavy infographic as the day goes on.

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The color displays show the usual data--airspeed, climb rate, moving maps--and some new twists, such as graphic depiction of aircraft systems.

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