The New York Times’ ebola visualization sets the bar for high quality interactivity.

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That makes sense as Mike Bostock works at the Times. He is one the creators of D3.js which is the open source engine behind most of the gorgeous data-driven visualizations on the Web these days. If you have not yet seen it, the D3.js examples gallery is a whole lot of eye candy.

Take this outbreak visualization as confirmation that any open-source white label outbreak widget should be based on D3.js.