Statistical Visualization

In another look at the data from xkcd’s color experiment, Stephen Von Worley…

The most recent version of Protovis, the open-source visualization library that uses JavaScript…

It’s not easy keeping up with what’s going on around the Web. Trending…

How much more (or less) money do you spend on groceries than you do on dining out? Bundle, a new online destination that aims to describe how we spend money, takes a look at the grocery-dining out breakdown in major cities.

Hannah Fairfield of the New York Times looks at driving habits and gas…

Lee Byron open-sourced his streamgraph code in Processing about a month ago. Jason Sundram has taken that and ported it to JavaScript, using Processing.js.

Stephen Von Worley’s Weather Sealed is one of my new favorites. In his…

The Final Four is just about here. Who’s going to win it all?…

In 1870, Francis Walker oversaw publication of the United States’ very first Statistical Atlas, based on data from the ninth Census.

EPCOR, the water utility company that runs the fountains up in Edmonton, Canada…

The Economist discusses the return of big government and includes this graph showing total government spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product. Is there a better way to represent the time series?

The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona has a growing database of 50,000 records…

The Obama administration just posted a graph showing monthly job loss from December…

Tableau Software, popular for making data more accessible, mainly in the business sector,…

President Obama announced his 2011 budget proposal. How does it compare to last…

Statisticians are generally behind the times when it comes to online applications. There…

Statistical graphics are often… kind of bland. But that’s fine, because they’re usually…