Archive for the ‘Statistics’ Category
Monday, October 15th, 2007
I came across Good Magazine, "media for people who give a damn."
We see a growing number of people tied together not by age, career, background, or circumstance, but by a shared interest. This revolves around a passion for potential mixed with fierce pragmatism and creative engagement. We sum all this ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
In my web surfing I came across this interesting visualization that combines both a geospatial aspect as well as a time aspect to the visualization.
Trulia Hindsight;
Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States from Trulia. The animations use the year the properties were built to ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
I think this is an effective data display. There is a lot of valuable information conveyed effectively - not a lot of flash, but a substantive.
Today the Milken Institute released an important study that demonstrates the heavy economic burden chronic disease places on our nation – and how much ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
An interesting dashboard that runs incident statistics over various segments of time. The picture above shows incidents in just short of 9 minutes:
over 2,000 births
just under 1,000 deaths
almost 200 cancer incidence
52 cases of STDs
766 abortions
15 US divorces
Watching the statistics climb while the clock ticks is an interesting visual. ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
A friend e-mailed me a link to alcohol availability data through the swivel website.
“Swivel's mission is to liberate the world's data and make it useful so new insights can be discovered and shared . . . We believe data is most valuable when it's out in the open where everyone ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
The last of the four visualization I found on The World Almanac 2007 is related to Gun Deaths in America.
The visualization is certainly on an important topic and I find it eye catching. Unfortunately, I believe the techniques obscure the data. Each bullet represents 40 deaths. There ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Managers of all kinds are frequently faced with a decision to continue on the same path or choose a new direction. When you start breaking the decision into all of the factors that come into play, it becomes apparent how complex the human decision process is.
Visual io, a company that ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
We Feel Fine provides several visualizations of human emotions inferred from text that is posted to the Internet.
The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles' properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
The National Safety Council presented this spiral-arranged bubble chart depicting the relative odds of various causes of death. The probability of causes are interesting, and I think contrary to what many people would guess.
For example, do most people worry more about a pool in their backyard or a firearm? You ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Edward Tufte is the master of effective and clear visual presentation of analytical information. His Ask E.T. section of his website is a tremendous resource with extremely valuable discussion.
Although I find the design of his site hard to manage, it is packed with great information. His four books ...
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