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By: ::: Think Macro ::: Â» Reading blogs #10

::: Think Macro ::: Â» Reading blogs #10 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:57:06 +0000

[...] “Stock Market & World GDP Statistical Data Sculptures” – You should check it yourself, it is simply cool :)Â But if you are considering a more conservative ways of representing data, you may find the following post useful – “How to Find the Right Chart Type for your Numeric Data” (also featured in FlowingData). [...]

By: Nathan Yau

Nathan Yau — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:15:27 +0000

I forgot about this one: http://interface.fh-potsdam.de.....tterns.php

In addition to the different chart/viz choices, there are also examples and detailed history about the selected technique.

By: Chart Selection | The Big Picture

Chart Selection | The Big Picture — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:16:32 +0000

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By: Raffy

Raffy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:49:20 +0000

For my book, Applied Security Visualization, I developed a decision chart as well. It somewhat based on Andrew’s work, but I included the data types (nominal, ordinal, etc) in the decision process.

By: ftr

ftr — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:27:38 +0000

You get a chart selector in the stats program SPSS, too.

The circular area chart is not only fit for the display of few variables which vary in time, such as audience by day time. It is used in weather analysis (wind speed by direction). You can also use it for describing a classification if you have up to half a dozen of variables and want to show the different profiles of the types.

An example : http://www.cost269.org/Committ.....Thomas.pdf Fig.4

By: lucasjosh.com » Blog Archive » Flow Chart for Data Visualization

lucasjosh.com » Blog Archive » Flow Chart for Data Visualization — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:21:21 +0000

[...] you are wondering how best to show data, use this flow chart. [ via [...]

By: Andrew Abela

Andrew Abela — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:14:56 +0000

No problem Nathan. I’m glad to have discovered your site – you have some great stuff here.

By: Nathan Yau

Nathan Yau — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:04:42 +0000

Hey Andrew, sorry about that. Thanks for the link to extreme presentation.

By: Andrew Abela

Andrew Abela — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:00:05 +0000

Hi all,

Thank you for acknowledging my work – I appreciate it.

Per Joshua’s comment: please note that I never intended for this to be definitive. What I hoped, when I posted it, is that I would receive feedback on what’s missing or misplaced, and I could improve the diagram based on that feedback. Arguably, the scatter matrix is a type of the “Table with Embedded Charts” in the upper left of the diagram, but I agree that it really does deserve a place of its own. I’ll work on it.

Meantime, if you have any further feedback, please feel free to add it here: http://extremepresentation.typ....._good.html

By: Nathan Yau

Nathan Yau — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:53:48 +0000

Blech, thanks for the correction all. Abela’s name is even in the right corner of the image. I must’ve seen the A.A. initials late last night, and just assumed it was Amit…