Another fascinating piece from FlowingData: “Progress: A Graphical Report on the State of the World” [http://projects.flowingdata.com/state-of-the-world/index.html] shows, visually, massive amounts of data from the UN, all of which is freely available. Check out the rest of the FlowingData website (http://www.flowingdata.com/) for more treats!
Archive for the ‘Data Visualization’ category
More goodies from FlowingData… The State of the World
March 4th, 2009Microsoft’s vision of the future
March 2nd, 2009Want to see how Microsoft envisions the future? Check out this video. A lot of attention to the visual aspect, to be sure, and a lot of isometric displays, glass-panels, and data transfers between different hardware elements. Is this a realistic vision? How close are we? [Source: istartedsomething.com]
Statisticians: The new “cool”?
February 28th, 2009Google’s Chief Economist, Hal Varian, says “the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians.” Sounds great.[Source The McKinsey Quarterly (http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Hal_Varian_on_how_the_Web_challenges_managers_2286), via the Flowingdata blog (http://flowingdata.com/2009/02/25/googles-chief-economist-hal-varian-on-statistics-and-data/).]
What will data visualization look like in 10 years? Will the goals change? Will there be a fundamental shift in what data mean for businesses, or just how it’s reported? Time will tell, but in any event…
I’d better start working on my statistics 
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
January 17th, 2009Ralph Lengler and Martin Eppler show a variety of many different visualization methods, arranged as a periodic table. Six categories differentiate the various entries by visualization type: Data, Information, Concept, Strategy, Metaphor, and Compound: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html (version 1.5; no date).
Make sure you mouse over the “elements” to see samples and learn more! Great idea!
Choosing a good chart…
January 17th, 2009Found a great decision graph on how to pick the right chart type for your next presentation(s): http://extremepresentation.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/choosing_a_good.html
Writen by Andrew Abela, it displays visually how to choose (what he thinks is) the best type of graph for a particular need. Clear, concise, and useful, it’s a good way to get started. The comments have some other ideas and pages with similar info.
