Visual.ly is the largest data visualization showcase in the world, providing endless inspiration for designers, publishers and enthusiasts. Visually, is a plattform to explore visual data because nowadays, let's face it, we think "visually".

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We live in the age of data collection and content creation. We create 1.5 billion pieces of content on Facebook, 140 million Tweets and 2 million YouTubes in just one day. And we love infographics (dataporn) that combine ideas, stories and insights into our behaviors.



This morning as I was reading this article I thought to myself, there's a lot of buzz about it and I still can't get to the core of the problem. So after googling for a while I came across this video, which was part of the "Visually" plattform, which sums it up perfectly in about two minutes and a half.

"My Water's On Fire Tonight" is a product of Studio 20 NYU in collaboration with ProPublica.org The song is based on ProPublica's investigation on hydraulic fractured gas drilling (read the full investigation here