Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
America is not the best at everything
Charles M. Blow has a look at some metrics for the International Monetary…
Exploratory treemap for Obama’s 2012 budget proposal
It’s that time of year again. Obama recently released his 2012 budget proposal…
Gamers mimic the real life football season
As you might expect, people who play sports video games tend to play…
Watch the world get fatter over the past three decades
People are getting fatter everywhere. You know this. But there’s nothing like the…
Price and adoption timeline of gadgets
New gadgets, from Web-connected TVs, to smartphones, to Fax machines, always seem to…
Delicious mass exodus
On news that Delicious is on Yahoo’s sunset list, thousands of people decided…
Facebook status updates: young people are self-centered and old ramble
The Facebook Data Team had a quantitative look at status updates by age…
The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling
The Joy of Stats, a one-hour documentary, hosted by none other than the…
How Twitter users balanced the budget
In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…
Comparison of Republican and Democratic tax plans
Lori Montgomery of the The Washington Post reports on the difference between the…
What New Yorkers complain about
Wired, in collaboration with Pitch Interactive, has a look at complaints called in…
When people break up, according to Facebook updates
For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…
Past century of government and economy
John Palmer has a look at the past 100 years of government and…
Issues Americans care about
Every year the Pew Research Center asks Americans what their top political priority…
Visualizing NFL statistics
Sports statistics. Always so many tables. Juice Analytics takes a more visual approach…
