Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Unemployment Rate For People Like You – NYT Interactive
Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, and Kevin Quealy of The New York Times explore…
Facebook Measures Happiness in Status Updates
As we all know, Facebook lets people update their friends with status updates,…
3 In-depth Views of Flight Delays and Cancellations
Have you ever rushed to the airport only to find that your flight…
How People in America Spend Their Day
From Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy, and Amy Schoenfeld of The New…
What Britain Has Eaten the Past Three Decades
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) keeps an archive of…
Track Presidential Approval Ratings and Compare to Past
From William Couch, Kristen Novak, Michelle Price and Joshua Hatch of USA Today,…
Explore World Data with Factbook eXplorer from OECD
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) makes a lot of world…
Michael Jackson Billboard Rankings: the Man, the Legend
Say what you want about Michael Jackson, but there’s no denying the great…
Google Analytics Data Made More Informative
A large majority of us who have websites use Google Analytics as our…
Open Source Data Visualization Framework – Axiis
Axiis, an open source data visualization framework in Flex, was released a few…
Explore Multiple Time Series in Third Dimension
Roland Lößlein, a media student at University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, presents…
USA Today Digs Into Job Forecasts for 2009
While on the topic of job losses, USA Today provides a look into…
4 Different Looks at Job Losses During Recessions
There are so many ways that you can cut a dataset whether it…
9 Ways to Visualize Consumer Spending
GOOD Magazine’s most recent infographic (above and below) on consumer spending got me…
Winner of Tufte Books and Many Other Good Entries
I ran a contest last week to improve a graph from Swivel that…
Using Data Visualization to Forecast Financial Markets
This is a guest post by Simit Patel of InformedTrades, which offers free…
Google Uses Search Terms to Predict Flu Activity
In Google Flu Trends, Google uses related searches to predict flu activity in…
Google Visualization API Opens Up
When Google first launched their visualization API, you could only use data that…