2010

Happy Turkey Day

Data Underload / Thanksgiving, turkey

Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots and lots and lots. Rest. Then eat more.…
Spreadsheet Invasion

Miscellaneous

Something for you leading into the Thanksgiving weekend. Enjoy this short video (below)…
How to Make Bubble Charts

Tutorials / bubbles, R

Ever since Hans Rosling presented a motion chart to tell his story of the wealth and health of nations, there has been an affinity for proportional bubbles on an x-y axis. This tutorial is for the static version of the motion chart: the bubble chart.
Girl Talk mashup breakdown visualized

Visualization

In case you missed it, Girl Talk recently released his fifth album All…
How Twitter users balanced the budget

Statistical Visualization / budget, nytimes

In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…
Evolution of the two-party vote during past century

Maps

Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…
Mapping human development in America

Maps / choropleth, development, interactive

In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…
Target for charting excellence

Design

The scales for what qualifies as pretty and useful change depending on the…
A world of tweets

Maps / Frog Design, HTML5, Twitter

We’ve seen this sort of thing before, with tweets mapped and such, but…
Defining neighborhoods with map scribbles

Maps / informal, neighborhood, scribbles

TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods:
We wanted…
What generation do you belong to?

Infographics / age, interactive, quiz, USA Today

In this interactive, USA Today guesses your age, based on what influenced you…
R is the need-to-know stat software

Software, Statistics / forbes, R, statistics

This Forbes post on the greatness that is R is being passed around…
Why network visualization is useful

Network Visualization

AT&T Labs’ Infoviz research group describes network graphs and their many uses:
There…
Visualize This: Winning Wikipedia fundraiser banners

Visualize This / banners, fundraiser, Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s annual fundraiser is in progress. If you haven’t noticed already, when you…
Format and clean your data with Google Refine

Software / cleaning, Google, refine

When we first learn how to deal with data in school, it’s nicely…
The very first NYT election map

Maps

Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director of The New York Times, dug through the…
Learn the rules of data graphics so you can bend them

Design / guide, quote, Tufte

If you take away anything from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, make…
You fix the budget puzzle

Infographics / budget, game, nytimes

Not pleased with how the government is handling the budget and deficit? Fine.…
Comparison of Republican and Democratic tax plans

Statistical Visualization / bubbles, Rachel Maddow, taxes

Lori Montgomery of the The Washington Post reports on the difference between the…
Algorithmic architecture with balls

Data Art

Geometric Death Frequency-141 by Federico Diaz is an algorithm-based sculpture at MASS MoCA,…

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