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  • Quickie Visualizations for Debugging Quickie Visualizations for Debugging

    This guest post is by Rahul Bhargava, a Senior Software Engineer at nTAG Interactive, makers of interactive name badges for conferences and meetings. Email him : rahul [ @ ] …
  • Poverty Statistics that Make Sense - Welcome to Povertyville and Slumtown

    Dan Beech represents worldwide poverty in this video, which is actually a 3-dimensional bar chart with some flare: Welcome to Povertyville, Slumtown, and Low Income city. I'm not sure what …
  • Rolling Out Your Own Online Maps and Graphs with HTML/CSS Rolling Out Your Own Online Maps and Graphs with HTML/CSS

    Wilson Miner and Paul Smith, two co-founders of Everyblock, post tutorials and a little bit of their own experiences rolling out their own maps and creating graphs with web standards. …
  • Create an Excel Dashboard, Win an iPhone Create an Excel Dashboard, Win an iPhone

    BonaVista Systems is running an Excel dashboard competition through this May. First place is an Apple iPhone; second place is a ticket to Stephen Few's Visual Business Intelligence Workshop; and …
  • Chernoff Faces to Display Baseball Managers From 2007 MLB Season Chernoff Faces to Display Baseball Managers From 2007 MLB Season

    Check out this lovely use of Chernoff Faces by Steve Wang of Swarthmore College. This method of visualization was developed by none other than mathematician-statistician-physicist Herman Chernoff in 1973. These …
  • What Interests Do Your Facebook Friends Have in Common? What Interests Do Your Facebook Friends Have in Common?

    Nexus, by Ivan Kozik, lets you explore your Facebook social network and find out what your friends have in common. Nexus kind of caught me off guard, because it actually …
  • Is the New Google Visualization API Going to Limit Our Data Imagination? Is the New Google Visualization API Going to Limit Our Data Imagination?

    Google recently released a visualization API that allows you to share embeddable visualization on your website, create Google Gadgets that can be shared and reused, and create extensions for existing …
  • 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe

    I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, …
  • Explore Your del.icio.us Tags and Bookmarks On 6pli Explore Your del.icio.us Tags and Bookmarks On 6pli

    Santiago, who I met at the Visualizar workshop, forwarded me his work on the visualization of del.icio.us tags and bookmarks called 6pli. Normally, I'm not a big fan of network …
  • Can We Improve this Graphic Showing History of Bipartisan Senate? Can We Improve this Graphic Showing History of Bipartisan Senate?

    Some thoughts on what I think would make this graphic on the U.S. senate's history of bipartisan politics a bit more useful.
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