I’m on my way back home from the workshop Integrating Computing into the…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Can You Improve this Mediocre Statistical Graphic?
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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…
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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…
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17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking…
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Explore Your del.icio.us Tags and Bookmarks On 6pli
Santiago, who I met at the Visualizar workshop, forwarded me his work on…
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Can We Improve this Graphic Showing History of Bipartisan Senate?
Some thoughts on what I think would make this graphic on the U.S. senate’s history of bipartisan politics a bit more useful.
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Is an Animated Transition From a Scatter Plot to a Bar Graph Effective?
Jeffrey Heer and George G. Robertson investigate the benefits of using animation in statistical graphics.
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New Hampshire Graphic from The Times
This graphic is from The New York Times graphics department. It matches the…
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One Day in the Life of the Average American
Time Magazine’s multimedia section has a fun, little piece showing some statistics for…
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A Magazine Dedicated Entirely to Visualizing Something Useful
GOOD Magazine is “media for people who give a damn.”
While so much… -
Presidential Nomination Polls With Smoothers
It almost feels like I see a new poll every day for who’s…