A discussion of the unreasonable fear over an Obama Administration solicitation to archive social network sites where it publishes information. This archiving is required by the Presidential Records Act of 1978. It is not spying.
Commentry is an interactive 3d visualization of comments on a popular digg story. Digg’s rating system combined with word counts allows us to see the status as well as health of a story. Heated debates can easily be found as well as popular reactions(good or bad) made by a given user.
An excellent resource for putting interactive data visualizations on the web is the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit.
A series of three pie charts are presented. Although, the sets describe three different sets of data, the pie charts look almost exactly the same.
I came across a great site, Sankey Diagrams, created by Phineas. It is a site dedicated to, guess what? Sankey Diagrams.
Sankey diagrams are a specific type of flow diagram, in which the width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the flow quantity. They are typically used to visualize energy or material transfers between processes.
An examination of what research says about Pie Charts. Quotes from Edward Tufte, Stephen Few, and Naomi Robbins.
