-
Graphical perception – learn the fundamentals first (7)
on
FlowingData (361) permalink
When it comes to visualization, especially on the Web, you have to be open-minded, and you should be willing to try new things. There’s no advancing otherwise. However, before you dive into the advanced stuff - like just about everything in your life - you have to learn the fundamentals before you know when you can break the rules. You have to know what flavors work together and against each other before you cook a ...- neilfws said: When we (the designers) visualize data, we encode the quantitative information in shapes, color, position, etc. The viewers then have to decode that information. Cleveland and McGill studied what people are able to decode most accurately and ranked them in the following list.
Comment View comments -
Social Media Has Become a Virus (1)
on
Nathan Hangen (4) permalink
I’ve got a serious problem with social media, and after reading Chris Brogan’s blog this morning, I can’t hide it any more. Chris Brogan, much like Gary Vaynerchuk, is a man that gave far too much for far too long. He’s blogged for free for 11 years, and is one of the most accessible big name bloggers I’ve ever met. Seriously…if there was an accessibility line, I’d say he and Gary Vaynerchuk would be tied ...Shared by BuckDaddy (152)Comment View comments -
Powerpoint and dying kittens (12)
onI'm 96% sure this isn't true. [Mark Goetz via dataviz] --------- World Progress Report - 4 days left to orderShared by Cam (246) David Lounsbury (9) fohlin (3) Jeff (18) Jon (50) kimyi (41) Marie (3) Ming (53) nonlinear (202) rtsnance (204) and two more »
- fohlin said: Don't kill kittens.
Comment View comments -
The everyday in Google Maps (13)
onWith his usual cleverness, Christoph Niemann illustrates the everyday as Google maps. My favorite is the omelet highway. Oh what a twisty and confusing highway this GPS-less life is. [Thanks, Tom] --------- World Progress Report - 4 days left to orderShared by Ben (280) cb160 (46) forcey (32) John (36) Josh (51) Jure (43) kimyi (41) one1zero1one (15) Owen (2) Roger Chen (176) and three more »Comment View comments
-
Statistical Atlas from the ninth Census in 1870 (12)
onIn 1870, Francis Walker oversaw publication of the United States' first Statistical Atlas, based on data from the ninth Census. It was a big moment for statistics in the United States as the atlas provided a way to compare data on a national level using maps and statistical graphics. What continues to amaze me about these old illustrations is the detail - all done by hand. That's ridiculous. The kicker is that a lot of ...Shared by anushsh (15) carstenhp (40) Dr (171) foolarch (232) Joel (63) Jon (50) Moah (11) Nathaniel (83) Oleks (86) Shanthi (13) and two more »
- Jon said: I love the fact that these were all drawn by hand.
Comment View comments -
Tim Berners-Lee with an update on open data (14)
onIf people put data on the Web - government data, scientific data, community data - whatever it is, it will be used by other people to do wonderful things in ways they never could have imagined. Tim Berners-Lee, TED, February 2010 Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, comes back to TED a year after his call for open, structured data with a quick update. Spoiler alert: things are looking good - and ...Shared by danieldf (198) Eduardo (12) Edward (4) Jim (70) luisrull (100) Nigel (18) Piersj (15) Rebecca (10) Roger Chen (176) romainpouzol (22) and four more »
- Edward said: Cool open data presenation by Tim Berners-Lee...
Comment View comments -
Canada: the country that pees together stays together (47)
onEPCOR, the water utility company that runs the fountains up in Edmonton, Canada released this graph yesterday. It's water consumption during the Olympic gold medal hockey game, overlaying consumption of the previous day. How much do Canadians love their hockey? A lot. The first period ends. Time to pee. The second period ends. Time to pee. The third period ends. Time to pee. Consumption goes way down when Canada wins and during the medal ceremony. ...Shared by ash (75) Atul Arora (154) Ben (280) BillDeys (5) Bob (15) bzzzzz (2) Chris (21) Chris (75) ChrisC (5) Compulsivo (70) and 37 more »Explore read five notes
- Isaac said: i love it.
- Steve said: This is hilarious...Had to share.
- simo said: wonderful
- Compulsivo said: Hora de fazer pipi....
- Derek said: great use of a graph to prove what we all thought to be true...people pee during intermission...the scale of this is crazy since it's entire city, not just the stadium.
Comment View comments -
Data Underload #12 – Famous Movie Quotes (32)
onHere's looking at you, data point.Shared by Brian (5) c0wb0yz (142) carstenhp (40) Chandoo (43) Chris (21) Commander (27) Dund Kalah (11) foolarch (232) Goyal (50) gurjeet (7) and 22 more »Comment View comments
-
How Genetics Works (28)
onSimple yet effective. Any questions? [via 9gag | Thanks, Barry]Shared by Alan (423) bounder (17) Brett Cannon (18) Brian (65) carstenhp (40) Coolbox (15) Daniel (25) DarrenW (8) Dr (171) fds (65) and 18 more »Comment View comments
-
Think like a statistician – without the math (23)
onI call myself a statistician, because, well, I'm a statistics graduate student. However, ask me specific questions about hypothesis tests or required sampling size, and my answer probably won't be very good. The other day I was trying to think of the last time I did an actual hypothesis test or formal analysis. I couldn't remember. I actually had to dig up old course listings to figure out when it was. It was four years ...Shared by Amy (10) Bud (77) Burento (16) Cam (246) Dr (171) Fearghas (17) hornbeck (64) izuzak (18) John (95) John Philpin (5) and 13 more »Comment View comments
-
Visualize your Last.fm listening patterns with LastHistory (19)
onFrederik Seiffert provides this nifty tool, LastHistory, to visualize your Last.fm listening history. Mouse over songs and find repeated track sequences. The visualization itself isn't all that useful, but it gets interesting when you hook your calendar and photos in with music. LastHistory lets you replay songs synched with your photos, and your slideshow suddenly gains a new dimension. I don't use Last.fm, so LastHistory isn't much use to me, but I'd be interested in ...Shared by Alexandre (211) Aram Zucker-Scharff (84) Ben (16) Brian (5) Burento (16) Cam (246) Coolbox (15) cw (28) Dave (31) Derek (6) and nine more »Explore read four notes
- Dave said: Ooooh! Another thing to plug into my self-quantifier!
- matt said: I've been using this for a while, crazy fun
- Aram Zucker-Scharff said: This is a pretty awesome tool. I am an intense last.fm user and have been for a long time, so I'm looking forward to trying LastHistory out.
- Derek said: I wish I had a mac to test this @Nate give it a try and let me know how it is.
Comment View comments -
Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores (36)
onFloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One maps shows total number of bars, but the interesting map is the one above. Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their drinking seriously. Of course there are plenty of possible explanations for the distribution. Maybe people get all their food from superstores like Walmart in ...Shared by Addi (56) Adi (28) Ashe (17) Ben (57) Bjoern Amherd (5) Brendan (14) Burento (16) carstenhp (40) Chris (14) Colby (4) and 26 more »Explore read six notes
- Ashe said: Wisconsin is all WE DONT NEED NO GROCERY STORES. I GOT THIS HERE BASKET OF CHEESE CURDS AND A MILLER LITE. BITCHES DONT KNOW
- That said: Best call-to-action for user participation I've ever seen: "Anyone who lives in the area care to confirm? I expect your comment to be filled with typos and make very little sense. And maybe smell like garbage."
- Isaac said: smashing visual of the areas of the States where bars outnumber grocery stores
- Colby said: See that little spec in the mid-Atlantic? I'm pretty sure that is St. Mary's County.
- Jordan said: GO WISCONSIN
- Derek said: Wow, just subscribed to this bar and the first two items were share worthy. "The Midwest takes their drinking seriously." yes we do!
Comment View comments -
The State of the Internet (14)
onFrom JESS3 is this video on the state of the internet. It's essentially a barrage of numbers, but it's fun nevertheless and it's got some interesting morsels in there.Shared by Adri Munier (111) alejandrodibattista (58) Darlene (22) David (37) dotguy (11) foolarch (232) hlinares (9) Lilx (29) phaithful (19) PJ (39) and four more »
- Spav said: Infografía en forma de video, ben chula.
Comment View comments -
Data Underload #11 – American Hockey (13)
onShared by Adam (28) Bjoern Amherd (5) Chris (14) David (52) Dr (171) fiskeben (7) Jim (3) Joel (63) sconover (322) Sean (49) and three more »
- Joel said: It's kinda inaccurate because it doesn't note the earlier US-Canada game, but it's still amusing.
Comment View comments -
Olympic musical – how fractions of second make all the difference (13)
onLike everyone, I've been watching the Olympics, and it continues to amaze me how hundredths of a second can make up the difference between a gold medal and nothing at all. Amanda Cox of The New York Times visualizes and audiolizes(?) these tiny differences. She got creative with this one. Each row is an event and going from left to right, the first dot is the gold medal winner. The amount of space between the ...Shared by Brian (66) Burento (16) Chris (35) Christian (5) Dave (18) Dominik (51) dougvs (8) Dr (171) fitzgeraldsteele (2) Jon (4) and three more »Comment View comments
-
Sunlight Labs releases mapping framework, ClearMaps (14)
onOpen data is great, but it's useless if you don't know what to do with it. Sunlight Labs, a group focused on using technology to support open government, recently released ClearMaps. It's an Actionscript framework for interactive cartographic visualization. In addition to giving designers and developers more control over presentation the project aims to address some of the common technical challenges faced when building interactive, data driven maps for the web. ClearMaps is designed as ...Shared by bruno (75) Bud (77) Giannis (53) Jonas (2) Miles (147) neilfws (52) Nigel (18) Paulbradshaw (61) PJ (39) rjhintz (65) and four more »Comment View comments
-
How a Giant Shark Took Down an Airplane (36)
onThis graphic from designer Stephen Taubman is entertaining in so many ways. It is based on the amazing story of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, one of the greatest movies ever made. I've never seen it, but after you watch the clip below, you'll be running to find a copy. Don't even try to convince me that couldn't happen. That could happen. I don't think I can fly ever again, at least not ones that ...Shared by AD (0) Anand (1) ArtLung (23) Chris (21) Chris (14) D (4) Danny (17) dknowles (16) Dominik (51) Ebru Baranseli (25) and 26 more »Explore read six notesComment View comments
-
Data Underload #9 – Big Graphic Blueprint (31)
onShared by AJ Kohn (39) Alex (5) barrett (39) bennylope (1) Brian (24) Çağatay Öztürk (32) Chris (35) Chris (21) DarkWulf (16) Dave (31) and 21 more »Explore read five notes
- AJ Kohn said: This is hysterical. I wish it had been titled 'How to lie with statistics' or 'Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics"
- barrett said: hahaha -- thanks for the laugh, Mase. this is pretty much spot-on. i give extra props to the use of non-lining numerals, too.
- Chris said: This gives just as much information as I generally take away from these things. I still love these things though.
- Dave said: If I snort-laugh, I share it...
- Rodzvilla said: this is what I like to see in inforgraphics.
Comment View comments -
The Most Efficient Way to Type (26)
onAre you using the most efficient typing technique or are your fingers jumping all over the keyboard? If it's the latter, I implore you - there is a better way. Your arms don't have to be tired after typing for ten minutes, and you just might finish that novel before the end of the decade. See these finger movement diagrams form Weather Sealed if you don't believe me. The above shows the amount of finger ...Shared by carstenhp (40) cb160 (46) Darlene (22) Dr (171) Ellen (15) Esmail (95) Ivan (24) Jason (60) John Munro (94) Joining (23) and 16 more »
- Riley said: now if only i had the time (and motivation) to retrain myself...
Comment View comments -
Save pens. Use Garamond font (49)
onDesigners Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth looked at ink usage of some commonly-used typefaces, by hand-drawing them with ballpoint pens. Scribble, scribble, scribble, and they got this simple bar chart with ink usage measured by, well, ink: Think Impact font is such an ink hog. Such a drama queen. See all the shots here. [Thanks, @bambock]Shared by Alex (530) Atul Arora (154) Beglen (52) Benj (6) carstenhp (40) cb160 (46) Chloe (1) Coolbox (15) dalelane (14) David (52) and 39 more »Comment View comments
Top Tags
Recent Comments
Did you know that the page you're viewing has its own custom
feed?
