The folks over at Google Chrome  have teamed up with Hyperakt and Vizzuality to put together the 2011 version of the Evolution of the Web visualization. It’s an interactive timeline that shows how the current web technologies have evolved over time. The color bands in the visualization represent the interaction between web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL and browsers that we use daily. Screenshots from past versions of todays browsers are a nice addition (Mosaic 1.0 anyone?). As you would expect, it’s all built using purely open web technologies and the data is provided by Wikipedia and CanIUse.

Peoplemovin, an experimental project in data visualization by Carlo Zapponi, that shows the flows of 215,738,321 migrants as of 2010. The migration data provided by The World Bank is plotted as a flow chart that connects emigration and destination countries. The chart is split in two columns, the emigration countries on the left and the destination countries on the right. The thickness of the lines connecting the countries represents the amount of immigrated people and the color code from blue to red puts the countries in comparison to the rest of the world. The visualization is built in HTML5 using the canvas element and should run fine in most modern browsers.

Do you know Dribbble? No, not the verb to dribble with a typo, but a nifty content sharing site for creatives who show and tell in 120,000 pixels or less. If you’re unfamiliar with it, here’s how it works.

Jamie Brightmore, creative designer based in the Cotswolds, UK created this interactive infographic to explain the concept and lingo behind Dribbble. While the used visualization methods may not be the best suited to communicate the “data”, Jamie uses HTML5 and CSS3 to make the visual interactive and explores the possibilities of these new techniques. An interesting approach that admittedly has it’s limitations (browser compatibility for example) but also shows some of the potential behind it.

It served him at least to get one of the much sought-after invites to the platform. By the way, I am looking for an invite, too. So, if somebody got one to share—I would be more than happy! Thanks to @Gulopine for the invite!

Humble software development released a new visualization library called HumbleFinance. It is visually and functionally inspired by the Domestic Trends visualization of Google Finance. Unlike Google’s version, which uses Flash, it is written entirely in JavaScript and uses HTML5′s canvas tag, so no Plug-In is required to display the visualization.

Although the HumbleFinance graph is especially suited to display financial time series, any two two-dimensional sets of numerical data which share an axis can be displayed.

The graph is divided in three areas: On top a section of the data sets can be compared side by side. At the bottom an overview over one data set is displayed. It also supports full interactivity, i.e. hovering over a data point in the demo shows connected points and the associated data. You can also scrub through the timeline and zoom the section of the data.