If you have been wondering how Americans’ concerns have changed over time and/or by party, look no further than GOOD.is | Political Climate – An Interactive Timeline Scaling. An interactive Flash-based infographic, the Political Climate chart shows how Americans feel about everything from the economy to healthcare to crime, morals, and immigration. You can select a composite view or break it down by political party (Democrat or Republican), year by year since 2001. Enlightening to compare the two parties’ views. Click back-and-forth between them and see how they fared.
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GOOD.is | Political Climate – An Interactive Timeline Scaling
November 2nd, 2010The Difference Between Infographics and Visualization | eagereyes
August 11th, 2010Robert 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.
A Presidential History of the US
August 2nd, 2010
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.
StatJump – Data Search Made Easy
July 11th, 2010
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.
Game of the Day: Who controlled the flow – WSJ
June 18th, 2010The 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…
