Visualize This (and win)
This round of Visualize This is a fun one. We’ve got the Rambo kill chart, which shows well, a breakdown of kills in each of the four Rambo movies. It’s surprisingly detailed with several cuts of the dataset like number of bad guys killed by Rambo with his shirt on and off, number of good guys killed by bad guys, number of people killed per minute, and several others.
The problem is that the data is just in a table. Surely we can do better than that. Can you visualize this?
Person with the best viz gets a copy of Darrell Huff’s classic How to Lie with Statistics
Cool Threads
- Visual Ideological History of the US Supreme Court: Alex Lundry visualizes the last seven decades of ideologies of US Supreme Court judges. Interact through the years and split the data in several ways.
- Visualizing Biological Data: VisualMOA is an information browser for the Microbial Online Analysis database. Is it useful without subject knowledge?
- Processing vs. Flash: Both are heavily used for visualization on the Web, but both have their pros and cons. Processing is good for coding beginners. Flash loads quicker using vectors. Which one should you use?
- Mapping SPAM and Sensornet Attackers: Using some heat mapping and Circos, Ben, a visualization beginner, is looking for some input.
