Archive for ‘Statistical Visualization’ Category

• 9 Ways to Visualize Consumer Spending

  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 …

• How to Make a Graph in Adobe Illustrator

  Most of us create graphs with actual graphing software. Maybe it's Microsoft Excel. Maybe it's R. Whatever it is though it's usually specialized for analysis. What if you want to …

• Winner of Tufte Books and Many Other Good Entries

  I ran a contest last week to improve a graph from Swivel that showed immigration to the United States. FlowingData readers sent in lots of different approaches (that took me …

• Using Data Visualization to Forecast Financial Markets

  This is a guest post by Simit Patel of InformedTrades, which offers free advice on trading stocks. While many investors use economic and fundamental factors to identify investment opportunities -- …

• Google Uses Search Terms to Predict Flu Activity

  In Google Flu Trends, Google uses related searches to predict flu activity in your area "up to two weeks faster than traditional flu surveillance systems." The above graph shows query-based …

• Google Visualization API Opens Up

  When Google first launched their visualization API, you could only use data that was in Google spreadsheets, which was pretty limiting. Yesterday, Google opened this up, and you can now …

• More Google Reader Stats When ’show details’

  I just noticed that when you click on "show details" in Google Reader, you get a graph of how frequently posts come from that feed and how often you read …

• New York Times Visualization Lab - Collaboration with Many Eyes

  It was just a little over a week ago that The New York Times announced their Developer Network i.e. Campaign Finance API. Yesterday, they announced something more - the Visualization …

• Who’s Leading Whom? Predictive Markets Versus Polls

  This is a guest post from Michael Drumheller, Dirk Karis, Raif Majeed and Robert Morton of Tableau Software. They use Tableau to explore the relationship between polls and predictive markets. …

• Browse Political Bias on Memeorandum - Greasemonkey Script

  Memeorandum shows up-to-date posts from leading political bloggers, and it is well-known that political bloggers are often very partisan. It's not always obvious to new readers though which side of …