2009

• Thank You, FlowingData Sponsors

  January 5, 2009 to Sponsors  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  December was a good month for FlowingData with some big waves of traffic and nearly 1,000 new readers. The new server withstood the spikes though, and everything was good and speedy just like I hoped. None of this would be possible without the help of FlowingData sponsors. I hope you will join me in thanking these fine groups that keep FlowingData going smoothly by checking out what they have to offer.

  Tableau Software — Data exploration and visual analytics in an easy-to-use analysis tool. In fact, quite a few contest entries were made with Tableau.

  Eye-Sys — Comprehensive real-time 3D visualization. Their gallery section in particular is quite impressive.

  SiSense — Easy-to-use reporting and analysis. No code required and directly connects to Excel, CSV files, SQL, MySQL, Oracle and SQL Analysis Services

  If you'd like to sponsor FlowingData, please feel free to email me, and I'll get back to you with the details.

• Graphs Lead to Decline in Love

  January 2, 2009 to Visualization  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  Coincidence. Absolutely. Lisa Simpson agrees. Have a good weekend all.

  [via xkcd | Thanks, Steve]

• 9 Ways to Visualize Consumer Spending

  January 1, 2009 to Infographics, Mapping, Statistical Visualization  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  GOOD Magazine's most recent infographic (above and below) on consumer spending got me to thinking about all the other approaches I've seen on the same topic. The number of ways to attack a dataset never ceases to amaze me, so I dug a little. Yeah, there are a bunch - but here are some of the good ones. Got some more? Leave a link in the comments.
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