-
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 -
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 … -
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 …
Presidential Nomination Polls With Smoothers -
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 …
iPod Design and Apple Stock Over the Years -
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 …
The Times: Wealthiest Americans Ever -
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, …
Gas Prices Over Time, 2000-2006 -
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 …
America Wins in Petrol Consumption per Day
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, computer scientists, and others are using data to understand more about ourselves and our surroundings. more...
Recent Posts
- Tracking Manny Ramirez’s Hunt for 500 Homers
- Quickie Visualizations for Debugging
- Why Isn’t Data Visualization More Popular?
- Flocking Up the National Nine News
- Discover, Share, Publish, Distribute, and Subscribe to Data With blist
- I Heart Dilbert
- Mapping the Human Diseasome With a Network Graph
- Headed to California for a Few Days
Poll
What do you primarily use to analyze and/or visualize data?