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  • Is an Animated Transition From a Scatter Plot to a Bar Graph Effective? Is an Animated Transition From a Scatter Plot to a Bar Graph Effective?

    Jeffrey Heer and George G. Robertson investigate the benefits of using animation in statistical graphics.
  • How to Read (and Use) a Box-and-Whisker Plot How to Read (and Use) a Box-and-Whisker Plot

    Believe it or not, the box-and-whisker is not just a box and some whiskers.
  • New Hampshire Graphic from The Times New Hampshire Graphic from The Times

    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 …
  • One Day in the Life of the Average American One Day in the Life of the Average American

    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 …
  • A Magazine Dedicated Entirely to Visualizing Something Useful

    GOOD Magazine is "media for people who give a damn." While so much of today's media is taking up our space, dumbing us down, and impeding our productivity, GOOD …
  • Presidential Nomination Polls With Smoothers Presidential Nomination Polls With Smoothers

    It almost feels like I see a new poll every day for who's leading in the presidential race. There's usually a good amount of fluctuation within a single poll …
  • iPod Design and Apple Stock Over the Years iPod Design and Apple Stock Over the Years

    Wall Street Journal put up a nice little graphic showing the evolution of the iPod along with Apple's stock price. Semi-informative, I guess. Probably more of a fun graphic …
  • The Times: Wealthiest Americans Ever The Times: Wealthiest Americans Ever

    In honor of my New York Times induction day, a visualization of The Wealthiest Americans Ever. You think good ol' Billy would be there at the top of the …
  • Gas Prices Over Time, 2000-2006 Gas Prices Over Time, 2000-2006

    While on the subject of gas prices, Foreign Policy has a graph of the prices per gallon of gasoline from 2000 to 2006. With the US at the lower tier, …
  • America Wins in Petrol Consumption per Day America Wins in Petrol Consumption per Day

    A very simple graph from The Economist (spiced up a bit with a picture of a delicious gasoline droplet) that quickly gets its point across. The United States uses …
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