Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Who’s Leading Whom? Predictive Markets Versus Polls

This is a guest post from Michael Drumheller, Dirk Karis, Raif Majeed and…

Browse Political Bias on Memeorandum – Greasemonkey Script

Memeorandum shows up-to-date posts from leading political bloggers, and it is well-known that…

Have You Registered to Vote Yet?

PhD Comics has grown to be my favorite comic of the moment. It’s…

3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart

A while back I asked what you wanted to see more of on…

Watch the Rise of Gasoline Retail Prices, 1993 – 2008

"What do the data look like for gasoline prices?" The prices go up, then down, then up, down, up...

Can You Improve this Graph Showing Suicide Rates in Japan?

Are you ready for another deconstruct/reconstruct exercise? I just posted a time series…

There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Dataset

Last week I asked if you could improve a mediocre bar chart showing…

Can You Improve this Mediocre Statistical Graphic?

I’m on my way back home from the workshop Integrating Computing into the…

Is Napoleon’s March the Greatest Statistical Graphic Ever?

I’m starting to hear about Charles Minard‘s map of Napoleon’s march time and…

Reflecting On the Data Viz VI Conference

A little over a week ago, I was in Bremen for the Data…

Statistical Graphics Conference – Jet Lag Wins. I Lose.

As you might have noticed, I haven’t been live blogging the Data Viz…

Voting Breakdown for Democratic Presidential Primaries

The above New York Times graphic shows where each candidate got his or…

Quickie Visualizations for Debugging

This guest post is by Rahul Bhargava, a Senior Software Engineer at nTAG…

Poverty Statistics that Make Sense – Welcome to Povertyville and Slumtown

Dan Beech represents worldwide poverty in this video, which is actually a 3-dimensional…

Rolling Out Your Own Online Maps and Graphs with HTML/CSS

Wilson Miner and Paul Smith, two co-founders of Everyblock, post tutorials and a…

Chernoff Faces to Display Baseball Managers From 2007 MLB Season

Check out this lovely use of Chernoff Faces by Steve Wang of Swarthmore…

Is the New Google Visualization API Going to Limit Our Data Imagination?

Google recently released a visualization API that allows you to share embeddable visualization…

17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe

I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking…