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Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel and Wish on Twitter
via FlowingData by Nathan on April 29, 2008
Inspired by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar's We Feel Fine, and using data from summize, twistori shows what people love, hate, think, believe, feel, and wish for on Twitter. Given the conversational feel of Twitter, twistori shows an almost natural flow of emotion and like Twittervision, is sort of mesmerizing.[via Twitter]
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A Little Bit of Design Goes a Long Way With Infographics
via FlowingData by Nathan on March 26, 2008
If I've learned anything about designing information graphics, it's that attention to detail and small changes make a mediocre graphic into a really useful and usually more attractive one. It's what sets New York Times graphics apart from those in other publications and especially those in academic papers. Something like a short annotation can add context or a line shifted slightly to...
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Rolling Out Your Own Online Maps and Graphs with HTML/CSS
via FlowingData by Nathan on April 23, 2008
Wilson Miner and Paul Smith, two co-founders of Everyblock, post tutorials and a little bit of their own experiences rolling out their own maps and creating graphs with web standards. Why Not Go With Google Maps?Paul gets into the mechanics of how you can use your own maps discussing the map stack - browser UI, tile cache, map server, and finally, the data. My favorite part though was his reasons...
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All 26 Million Road Segments in Continental United States
via FlowingData by Nathan on April 27, 2008
Ben Fry maps every road segment in All Streets, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data. There's no actual map or drawn borders; instead Ben chooses to let the data do all the work, and the results are very pretty. Sometimes you don't need a map to map.I was somewhat surprised to see California's low road density compared to the eastern half of the country, but I...
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Why Should Engineers and Scientists Care About Color (and Design)?
via FlowingData by Nathan on April 28, 2008
I studied electrical engineering and computer science in undergrad and now as a stat student, I still work with a lot of engineers and scientists. Something that has always confused me as I walk through the engineering (and statistics) halls of conference posters is the use of the rainbow color scale. I can think of two reasons for this - the authors felt that more colors meant more pretty or...
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Tracking Manny Ramirez’s Hunt for 500 Homers
via FlowingData by Nathan on May 15, 2008
The Boston Globe lets readers explore home run data for the Boston Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez. The data is quite detailed and the graphic lets your split the data in several directions. Look at homers by ballpark, who was pitching, the pitch count, when Ramirez homered, and where the ball landed. Baseball fans will really appreciate this interactive graphic and non-baseball fans will...
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The Safest Seat to Sit In On a Plane is…
via FlowingData by Nathan on May 19, 2008
Popular Mechanics did a study on where it was safest to sit on an airplane based on all commercial jet crashes since 1971. Contrary to expert statements that "one seat is safe as the other," the study found that it is safer to sit in the back.The funny thing about all those expert opinions: They're not really based on hard data about actual airline accidents. A look at real-world crash stats,...
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Data Visualization Gets Personal - Putting Data Into Your Hands [PROJECT]
via FlowingData by Nathan on June 02, 2008
Want to have some fun and win an Amazon gift certificate in the process? Read on.Personal data visualization has a huge advantage over other types of visualization. Personal visualization is about you, for you, and the data is from you. That's a ton of background information with very little effort. As Jeffrey Heer noted in Socializing Visualization, people tend to spend more time exploring...
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Voting Breakdown for Democratic Presidential Primaries
via FlowingData by Nathan on June 05, 2008
The above New York Times graphic shows where each candidate got his or her support from. The x-axis (horizontal) represents strength of support and the y-axis shows the number of states. On the surface, it's a stacked bar chart, but the animation as you browse the groups (e.g. under age 30, whites, blacks), makes things interesting. Highlight a state and watch it move left to right and right...
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