When Google first launched their visualization API, you could only use data that…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Google Visualization API Opens Up
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More Google Reader Stats When ‘show details’
I just noticed that when you click on “show details” in Google Reader,…
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Who’s Leading Whom? Predictive Markets Versus Polls
This is a guest post from Michael Drumheller, Dirk Karis, Raif Majeed and…
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Browse Political Bias on Memeorandum – Greasemonkey Script
Memeorandum shows up-to-date posts from leading political bloggers, and it is well-known that…
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Have You Registered to Vote Yet?
PhD Comics has grown to be my favorite comic of the moment. It’s…
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3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart
A while back I asked what you wanted to see more of on…
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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…
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Can You Improve this Graph Showing Suicide Rates in Japan?
Are you ready for another deconstruct/reconstruct exercise? I just posted a time series…
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There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Dataset
Last week I asked if you could improve a mediocre bar chart showing…
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Can You Improve this Mediocre Statistical Graphic?
I’m on my way back home from the workshop Integrating Computing into the…
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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…
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Reflecting On the Data Viz VI Conference
A little over a week ago, I was in Bremen for the Data…
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Statistical Graphics Conference – Jet Lag Wins. I Lose.
As you might have noticed, I haven’t been live blogging the Data Viz…
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Voting Breakdown for Democratic Presidential Primaries
The above New York Times graphic shows where each candidate got his or…
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Quickie Visualizations for Debugging
This guest post is by Rahul Bhargava, a Senior Software Engineer at nTAG…
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Poverty Statistics that Make Sense – Welcome to Povertyville and Slumtown
Dan Beech represents worldwide poverty in this video, which is actually a 3-dimensional…
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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…
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Chernoff Faces to Display Baseball Managers From 2007 MLB Season
Check out this lovely use of Chernoff Faces by Steve Wang of Swarthmore…