All important data to present as part of telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
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Thanks to Brain Pickings for bringing this to our attention.
Data is boring, information is interesting! I’ve always used this statement whenever the issue of data is being discussed. No one is really interested in looking at a large number of data rows, or even a small one. As humans, we tend to better understand a particular issue when it is presented to us in [...]
I’ve written about Hans Rosling’s awesome 2006 TED conference presentation on income distribution and birth rates in the non-industrialized world. He used a tool for data visualization that was new at the time, and has since been integrated into many toolsets, including Google Analytics.
At TED 2007, he stepped back up to show how his work [...]
Gary Flake, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, demo’d Pivot at TED 2010 last month. Pivot is built on Seadragon technology, and allows for us to move beyond the simple form of searching we’ve been doing, and start to interact more creatively with massive amounts of data. And not just raw quantitative data, but visual content.
He [...]
Data visualization super star Edward Tufte has been called upon by the Obama administration to join the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.
Tufte is known for a series of book on graphic design, particularly when it comes to the visualization of data. I went to a full day seminar of his in 1996, and became baptized [...]
What has been the effect of job losses and gains on different regions of the United States?
TIP Strategies has posted a great visualization of the job gains and losses since 2004. This is a great use of times series data visualization, dramatically showing the changes over time, and in different regions of the country.
As far as entertainment [...]
Here’s something interesting, but related to this blog only insofar as an example of the use of excellent data visualization tools.
There was a set of charts presented in the Sunday NYT with a very cool charting technique to show slowdown/expansion cycles in the economy, and how they relate over time to leading indicators like industrial [...]
(Summary for the short attention span types: a dry intro, then a video that you have to see.)
In 2006, Hans Rosling gave a presentation at TED, the context of which was income distribution, health, and tech adoption in the third world. But mostly, the presentation became known for the method of presenting the data more than [...]
I was reading a series of great blog posts about visualization of complex networks at the cleverly named Visual Complexity blog, and I was feeling a kindred spirit. References to Darwin, Edward Tufte, ecosystems.
I clicked on their Books list, and saw many of my favorites. What caught my eye was a link, under each book, [...]
