This administration is doing a good job of opening data up to the American public – from the creation of data.gov to the appointment of Edward Tufte to the Whitehouse advisory panel for improving the display of information on recovery.gov. Other government institutions though have a way to go. In this post I’m going to pick on the …
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Wall Street Journal a way off New York Times standard..
It would seem that the Wall Street Journal has a way to go before approaching the data visualization excellence of the New York Times. The above data are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey. The pie chart is broken for the usual reasons – 3D, too many segments, have to refer …
Web-deployed dashboards without Flash or expensive BI tools (Protovis)
I discussed recently about how new javascript libraries (especially Protovis) have the potential to revolutionize information delivery to the web. As I haven’t seen any examples of these libraries being used to create a dashboard, I thought I’d be the first. This is my first iteration (click for the big, real version) – don’t read anything into the choice …
Third-dimension in visualizations – 1st person shooter steering
Recently I posted about visualizations and 3D, surmising that without due care, and appropriate use, 3D will be like when we could suddenly tilt pie charts and give them a gradient color effect. Wunderground.com (previous musings on their information graphics – I do really like the site by the way) has produced a 3D weather radar. You fly …
BBC election visualizations
I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing national elections in the UK and USA. Aside from the fact that the run up to the UK elections last a month, compared to the year plus of US elections, the day of the election in the UK is much more enjoyable for the data guru, partly because of …
Exploring crash statistics – an excellent interactive visualization
This series of interactive visualizations by the BBC is quite stunning. The first shows a map of fatal car accidents in the UK. For the area chosen you can see age, sex, and vehicle type breakdowns. Mouseovers show details of the accident as well as links to the news story about it. The year slicer …
Visually exciting and useful? Google’s image swirl
When I find a new visualization or graphically based tool on the web, I like to jump straight in without looking at what it’s supposed to do, or for that matter, how it’s supposed to work. Google’s image swirl is superb – so obvious, and yet very useful. Search for an image – e.g. Statue …
