Time to our last Interactive Inspiration of 2012 – after such a great year, we’ll be taking a few days off, to get set for a deliciously challenging 2013. And thank you all for keeping up with our posts, either here or on Tumblr and Pinterest.

So here’s our selection of the week:

Dare many things | NASA

(image: NASA)

Forest Fire Hot Spots | Ben Jones

(image: Ben Jones)

(Seen on Tableau’s Viz of the Day)

Events in the Game of Thrones | Jerome Cuckier

(image: Jerome Cuckier)

Bomb Sight

(image: Bomb Sight)

(Via Information Aesthetics)

2012 Year on Twitter | Twitter

Top Twitter Names in London | Muhammad Adnan

(image: Muhammad Adnan )

(HT The Guardian Datablog)

‘The Hobbit’ emerges | The Boston Globe

(infographic: Ryan Huddle, Chiqui Esteban | The Boston Globe)

Messi’s 86 Goals | La Nacion

(image: La Nacion)

(Via Tableaus’s Vizz of the Day)

Cancer’s Global Footprint | Pulitzer Center / PRI’s The World

(image: Cancer’s Global Footprint)

The ideological history of the Supreme Court, 1937-2007 | Target Point

(image: Target Point)

Earth at Night 2012

(image: Earth at Night 2012)

Uber Weather

(image: Uber Weather)

(Via Google Maps Mania)

Cost of College Football Wins | OSMGuy

(image: OSMGuy)

(Via Tableau’s Vizz of the Day)

And last week’s picks:

Johnny Cash Has Been EVERYWHERE | Iain Mullan

(image: Iain Mullan)

Multimillionaires in the Asia-Pacific region | The Guardian

(image: The Guardian)

Autumn Statement 2012 | The Telegraph

(image: The Telegraph)

Global energy sources | Nature

(image: Nature)

Visualizing 50 Years of Rolling Stones Concerts | CartoDB

(image: CartoDB)

(HT Flowing Data)

2012 Electoral Map of Catalonia | Vilaweb

(image: Vilaweb Labs)

Global MetroMonitor | Brookings

(image: Brookings)

Freeandopen | Google

(image: Google)

(Via Google Maps Mania)

Mad Drinkers

(image: Arianna Belotti, Sofia Girelli, Daniele Lupatini, Gianluca Malimpensa, Mattia Parietti, Aurelie Pellat)

Greek bond buyback | Thomson Reuters

(image: Thomson Reuters)

Christmas Countdown | Ria Novosti

(image: Ria Novosti)

Public spending by UK government department 2011-12 | The Guardian

(image: The Guardian)

How UK migration has changed, 1964-2011 | The Telegraph

(image: The Telegraph)

GFC: funding grassroots initiatives| The Financial Times

(image: Financial Times)

WeatherSpark

(image: WeatherSpark)

(Seen on Information Aesthetics)

Visualizing U.S. Births and Deaths in Real-Time | Bill Snebold

(image: Bill Snebold)

The technology fast track | IBM

(image: IBM)

All in the Family | Fathom Information Design

(image: Fathom Information Design)

(Via Flowing Data)

StatMilk

(image: StatMilk)

(Another one seen on Information Aesthetics)

How the Tax Burden Has Changed | The New York Times

(image: Mike Bostock, Matthew Ericson and Robert Gebeloff | The New York Times)

Find your Registration Center | IEBC

(image: IEBC)

(Via Google Maps Mania)

Where are world’s deadliest major cities? | The Guardian

(image: The Guardian)

We’ll be back with more Interactive Inspiration in January! Until then, stay tunned for our daily posts here on Visual Loop, and enjoy the Holiday Season!