The most recent version of Protovis, the open-source visualization library that uses JavaScript…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Protovis 3.2 released – more examples and layouts
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Current tracks and visualizes memes
It’s not easy keeping up with what’s going on around the Web. Trending…
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What America spends on food and drink
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.
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Driving habits and gas prices shift into reverse
Hannah Fairfield of the New York Times looks at driving habits and gas…
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Streamgraph code ported to JavaScript
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.
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Tax brackets over the past century
Stephen Von Worley’s Weather Sealed is one of my new favorites. In his…
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March Madness Bracketology
The Final Four is just about here. Who’s going to win it all?…
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Statistical Atlas from the ninth Census in 1870
In 1870, Francis Walker oversaw publication of the United States’ very first Statistical Atlas, based on data from the ninth Census.
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Canada: the country that pees together stays together
EPCOR, the water utility company that runs the fountains up in Edmonton, Canada…
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Challenge: make this graph easier to read
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?
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An Exploration of Biological Records
The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona has a growing database of 50,000 records…
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Road to Recovery – Is the Recovery Act working?
The Obama administration just posted a graph showing monthly job loss from December…
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Build Online Visualization for Free with Tableau Public
Tableau Software, popular for making data more accessible, mainly in the business sector,…
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Obama’s Budget Proposal and Incorrect Forecasts
President Obama announced his 2011 budget proposal. How does it compare to last…
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Build Statistical Graphics Online With ggplot2
Statisticians are generally behind the times when it comes to online applications. There…
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How to Make an Interactive Area Graph with Flare
You’ve seen the NameExplorer from the Baby Name Wizard by Martin Wattenberg. It’s…
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Stat Charts Get a New York Times Redesign
Statistical graphics are often… kind of bland. But that’s fine, because they’re usually…
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The Cost of Getting Sick
GE and Ben Fry (now the director of SEED visualization), show the cost…