Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

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…

More Google Reader Stats When ‘show details’

I just noticed that when you click on “show details” in Google Reader,…