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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 …
Chernoff Faces to Display Baseball Managers From 2007 MLB Season -
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 …
What Interests Do Your Facebook Friends Have in Common? -
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 …
Is the New Google Visualization API Going to Limit Our Data Imagination? -
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, …
17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe -
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 …
Explore Your del.icio.us Tags and Bookmarks On 6pli -
Some thoughts on what I think would make this graphic on the U.S. senate's history of bipartisan politics a bit more useful.
Can We Improve this Graphic Showing History of Bipartisan Senate? -
Jeffrey Heer and George G. Robertson investigate the benefits of using animation in statistical graphics.
Is an Animated Transition From a Scatter Plot to a Bar Graph Effective? -
Believe it or not, the box-and-whisker is not just a box and some whiskers.
How to Read (and Use) a Box-and-Whisker Plot -
This graphic is from The New York Times graphics department. It matches the FlowingData colors. That is all. Oh, and it's excellent, but that's a given, right? Note the use …
New Hampshire Graphic from The Times -
Time Magazine's multimedia section has a fun, little piece showing some statistics for a day in the life of the average American. There's some mapping for average commute time, annual …
One Day in the Life of the Average American
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