Worldmapper

http://www.worldmapper.org/
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
There are now nearly 600 maps

3 Visualization Projects Point to the Future of Scholarship in the Humanities

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3052&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Fairfax, Va. — Turning historical and social-science data into pictures could help scholars identify new patterns in old records, according to researchers who gathered at George Mason University this weekend for a conference on technology in the humanities.
At a session devoted to visualization — as making pictures out of data is called — participants discussed [...]

Office of Digital Humanities

http://www.neh.gov/odh/
The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) is an office within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Our primary mission is to help coordinate the NEH’s efforts in the area of digital scholarship. As in the sciences, digital technology has changed the way scholars perform their work. It allows new questions to be raised and [...]

Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe

http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/diverse-exploding-digital-universe.pdf
An Updated Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2011
March 2008
This white paper, sponsored by EMC, is an update of IDC’s inaugural forecast of the digital universe published in March
2007.i In this year’s update we calibrate the size (bigger) and growth (faster) of the digital universe again, but we also explore ome areas we only touched [...]