Ben Sternthal & Friends

One of my favorite Icelandic startups is datamarket.is. The company specializes in data aggregation and visualization. I have always had an interest in statistics and data so these guys are of particular interest to me.

Embedded below is a visualization of Urbanization in Iceland from 1901-2009. Besides being very cool, this also shows how good datamarket.is is.

Urbanization in Iceland from 1901 / Búseta á Íslandi frá 1901 from hjalli on Vimeo.

Services like this are of particular interest to me, not just because it’s cool but because I totally see ways this can help me.

I have way too much information flowing in every day and have no way to muddle through it all. I’d love to have some visualizations of twitter, facebook, google reader etc so I can spend less time weeding through the noise and more time with the good stuff.

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