Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com.
Archive for the ‘Data Visualization’ category
How Genetics Works | FlowingData
March 5th, 2010I love simplicty and you don’t get much simpler than this visual depiction showing How Genetics Works | FlowingData. Thanks, Nathan, for another excellent post! Short and sweet.
How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution | FlowingData
February 23rd, 2010The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) – TargetPoint
January 21st, 2010
Snapshot of the latest SCOTUS ideological scores (source: targetpointconsulting.com)
Andrew Martin (Washington University, School of Law) and Kevin Quinn (U.C. Berkeley School of Law) devised the Martin-Quinn scoring system to gauge the ideological flavor of courts. Alex Lundry applied that scoring system to the SCOTUS to create a fascinating visualization showing the conservative/liberal tendencies of each justice since 1937, along with an overall score of the entire court: The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) – TargetPoint. He (along with Carl Roose who adapted the graphic for the web) clearly spent a lot of time going through the court’s history, applying the scoring system to show both by justice and collectively, by year, the court leaned.
The snapshot shown here is only the latest portion of the chart — take a look at the whole page for additional details, along with a couple videos, including an intro.
Interactive data visualizations with R
January 3rd, 2010Jeroen Ooms, a visiting scholar at UCLA’s Department of Statistics, has been very busy with R — he has two wonderfully slick online apps where users are able (for free) to visualize datasets using R’s ggplot. If you’re interested in R, stocks, or just data visualization, you’ll find something of real value in his applications.
