When we visited the Global Research Center one of the coolest stops was the Trailer of the Future to see all the Veriwise stuff. Basically GE is helping to track much of the cargo that gets shipped around the country in 18-wheelers.
With all that data coming in the first thing we all thought of was visualizations: What kind of awesome patterns and trends could we show by mapping the data?
Though it’s not so exciting to look at, this map of cargo by Hellenic Shipping News is pretty rad (via MetaFilter).
And since we’re talking about visualizing lots of data from stuff traveling, here’s the now-famous Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin.