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Making Data Make Sense

Sometimes complex ideas make so much more sense when you have a visual representation. Sometimes creative charts just look cool. And it is scientifically proven that people learn and retain more information when it is presented in more than one mode.

Be sure to check out the humorous Daily Show Stats

* check out this related post from Seth Godin's Blog How to make graphs that work *

 

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
-John W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis. 1977

Miniature Earth 

If the world's popuation were reduced to 100, it would look something like this...

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Great Visualizers: Good Magazine 

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An archive of Transparencies that have run in past issues GOOD and on the Information Is Beautiful blog.

A new Transparency is posted every Tuesday on www.good.is.

Sugar Stacks 

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Sweet, but not that sugary.


That's more sugar than a whole pint of ice cream!
(medium chocolate shake)

How Many Gallons of Fuel Does it Take to Travel 350 Miles? 

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Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America 

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Mapped spread of Walmart using Modest Maps. It starts slow and then spreads like wildfire in the southeast and makes its way towards the west coast.

Radiohead - House of Cards 

No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

Watch the making-of video to learn about how the video was made and the various technologies that were used to capture and render 3D data.

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Squidoo Charts 

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thefluffanutta says: "I have analysed almost 70 thousand lenses at Squidoo by 2,250 Lensmasters, and I've identified a number of issues that common to a staggering 80% of these lenses. Some of these issues are preventing the lenses from ranking well in the Search Engines, and many Lensmasters have posted to the forums complaining about a lack of traffic.

Here is an overview of the issues I have found, and how Lensmasters can fix them."

4 Out Of 5 Lenses Have Poor Health!

Death and Taxes: 2009 

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"Death and Taxes:2009" is a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget; the amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress. Basically, your federal income taxes. The data is from the President's budget request for 2009. It will be debated, amended, and approved by Congress by October 1st to begin the fiscal year.

The poster provides a uniquely revealing look at our national priorities, that fluctuate yearly, according to the wishes of the President, the power of Congress, and the will of the people. If you pay taxes, then you have paid for a small part of everything in the poster.

TED talk  

Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world

Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing.
TED talk

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Environmental Charts 

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Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it)
including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc.
Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it)
gathered into a ball at sea-level density.
Shown on the same scale as the Earth.

Vegetarian Statistics 

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Dec 15, 2009 @ 2:16 amCanvi & Temps: An Exploration of Science Over Time from FlowingData
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Dec 14, 2009 @ 7:53 amFour Infographic Morsels 3 from Information Is Beautiful
Earth In Space Thanks to Steve Haddock for that one. Apparently this map is secreted on Google Earth somewhere. Can anybody find a link for it? Thanks! And on a similar theme – the undiscover...
Dec 14, 2009 @ 2:37 amData Underload #1 from FlowingData
Dec 11, 2009 @ 10:06 amTwitter Mentionmap and Correlations at your.flowin... from FlowingData
your.flowingdata got a couple of cool updates recently. One is based on your interactions with others on Twitter and the other helps you find relationships in your actions. Twitter Mentionmap The firs...
Dec 11, 2009 @ 2:45 amFlowchart Helps You Decide What Cereal to Eat from FlowingData
I bet you wake up every morning wishing, "I wish there was an easier way to decide what cereal to eat! There's so so many choices that I get a headache just thinking about it." Well say goodbye to hea...
Dec 10, 2009 @ 2:11 pmAfternoon Thread: Best Visualization of 2009? from FlowingData
The end of 2009 is looming, and it's about time to make this year's picks for best visualizations. I was sifting through the archives the other day. The selection is going to be tough. I need your hel...
Dec 10, 2009 @ 2:47 amMicrosoft Live Labs Pivot: Interact With Massive A... from FlowingData
What if you could see all the individual bits of information scattered across the Web in one view and then interact with it in a meaningful way? This is what Microsoft Live Labs' new Pivot experiment...

Beautiful Data 

The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

Amazon Price: $40.11 (as of 12/16/2009)Buy Now

In this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the Mars lander to a Radiohead video.

With Beautiful Data, you will:
* Explore the opportunities and challenges involved in working with the vast number of datasets made available by the Web
* Learn how to visualize trends in urban crime, using maps and data mashups
* Discover the challenges of designing a data processing system that works within the constraints of space travel
* Learn how crowdsourcing and transparency have combined to advance the state of drug research
* Understand how new data can automatically trigger alerts when it matches or overlaps pre-existing data
* Learn about the massive infrastructure required to create, capture, and process DNA data

That's only small sample of what you'll find in Beautiful Data. For anyone who handles data, this is a truly fascinating book.

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