Robert Kosara at eagereyes.org helps differentiate between visualization and infographics. Among other differences, he points out that
Visualization is context-free, infographics are context-sensitive.
This short but informative post discusses The Difference Between Infographics and Visualization | eagereyes.
Section of the complete graphic
Rachel Mercer‘s graphic “Presidential Costs” shows, in a circular timeline, the history of the US through a history of the presidents, from Washington through Obama. Four layers of rings plus a ring of bubbles visualizes the time periods, key legislative acts, foreign conflicts and wars, and national debt. Very nice graphic.
A few days ago, the great Revolutions blog posted (“Visualizing the census“) about a new utility called StatJump where you can visualize data from the 2010 US Census using, of course, R. Pretty impressive. The image here shows the percentage of students graduating High School, by county. There are tons of canned visualizations — just click one of the menu items (e.g. “Social Demographic Data”) on the home page. You can also run your own searches, though it only seems to return the data in a table — i.e. I haven’t figured out how to generate these maps from my own search. Very powerful tool, considering all those data being searched.
The WSJ posted an interesting timeline graphic showing the flow of ball control during the recent Mexico/France World Cup match:
Game of the Day: Who controlled the flow (Mexico vs. France)
Is the area under the graph the time of possession? What does the distance from the center axis mean?
Maybe the marginal shots/goals/cards line could be incorporated into the main graph more effectively — especially if the distance from the center axis is time, those three measures could be plotted from the center axis.
Just an idea…
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