Interesting Visual Statistics
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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 *
Beautiful Data
The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
Amazon Price: $24.55 (as of 02/15/2012)![]()
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.
Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
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A report commissioned by pipeline sponsor TransCanada now shows that connecting tar sands producers with Gulf Coast refiners actually pushes gas prices up for everybody.
Keystone XL Won't Decrease "Unfriendly" Oil Imports Either » Rainforest Action Network Blog
Distribution of Wealth in the U.S.
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Miniature Earth
If the world's popuation were reduced to 100, it would look something like this...
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
Squidoo Charts
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Here is an overview of the issues I have found, and how Lensmasters can fix them."
Death and Taxes: 2009
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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.
Statistics TED Talk
Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world
TED talk
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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Interesting Visual Statistics Posts
- Feb 13, 2012 @ 3:56 amAbstract maps of the United States from FlowingData
- Esquire invited a handful of map-makers to represent the United States outside its borders. Red state, blue state, big state, small state, north and south and east and west: How we define our similari...
- Feb 11, 2012 @ 8:23 pmJeremy Lin is no fluke from FlowingData
- Nate Silver looks at past players who have scored 20 or more points, had 6 or more assists, and shot better than 50 percent in four or more games in a row. It's an illustrious list of all-stars, inclu...
- Feb 10, 2012 @ 3:27 amFamous dances in television and cinema illustrated from FlowingData
- In a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Dancing Plague of 1518, Niege Borges illustrates dances from a number of shows and movies in his project of the same name. All of them available in print, including...
- Feb 9, 2012 @ 3:24 amWhy I want to quit cable from FlowingData
- Growing up, most of my friends had cable television, but whenever I brought it up, my parents would always say that I watched enough TV already (which was true). So it was always a treat when we went...
- Feb 8, 2012 @ 12:45 pmTaxi migration in Manhattan from FlowingData
- While we're on the topic of things moving on a map of changing camera angles, class project Taxi, by Tom McKeogh, Eliza Montgomery and Juan Saldarriaga, shows the movements of said vehicles in Manhat...
- Feb 8, 2012 @ 3:24 amAnimation shows national migration patterns from FlowingData
- Even Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians. When running at full speed the visualization is clearly lacking in terms of salient features, yet I find it i...
- Feb 7, 2012 @ 5:39 amWeave for visualization development from FlowingData
- Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software intended for flexible visualization. Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed t...
- Feb 7, 2012 @ 4:32 amMembers Only: How to Make a Contour Map from FlowingData
- Filled contour plots are useful for looking at density across two dimensions and are often used to visualize geographic data. It's straightforward to make them in R — once you get your data in t...
- Feb 6, 2012 @ 3:29 amTracking the grizzly bear in emotional interactive... from FlowingData
- In a blend of data and storytelling, Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison dig into surveillance logs generated by a monitored grizzly bear between 2001 and 2009. The final work is a moving interactive doc...
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jimmyworldstar
Feb 6, 2012 @ 7:06 am | delete
- The obesity rate in this country is awful, thank you for the interesting statistics more people need to be made aware of these.
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curious0927
Jan 29, 2012 @ 11:35 am | delete
- Great lens. I really enjoy the topics you chose to measure! Blessed! Bookmarked for return! Thanks, keep making lenses!
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GrammaLinda
Jan 27, 2012 @ 11:15 am | delete
- Visual representation of data is essential for teaching complex subjects. Great lens! Blessings!
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sandyspider
Jan 4, 2012 @ 9:52 pm | delete
- I am very much a visual person. Great job on the charts and photos. Blessed! Please add this to the plexo on my New Year 2012 Blessings and Zazzle lens.
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LittleLindaPinda Jan 4, 2012 @ 9:12 pm | delete
- Fantastic. I am definitely a chart person. Thanks for all your hard work to present this to us.
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Loveyourshoes
Jan 4, 2012 @ 9:16 am | delete
- Really good lens, visually brilliant and a lot to take in initially. Ever heard the famous quote from Winston Churchill that there are ," Lies, damn lies and statistics " It is true that statistics can be presented in various ways though. Sousebaby is right though when she says a picture is worth a thousand words sometimes.eg a map !
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sousababy
Dec 15, 2011 @ 2:46 am | delete
- Came back to google +1 this gem (nice to see it has a purple star too).
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sousababy
Dec 15, 2011 @ 2:45 am | delete
- I really must revisit this . . since explaining some things with words doesn't effectively convey the massive scale that I am trying to emphasize (for some projects I work on). A picture (or visual graphic) really is worth a thousand words. Thanks for such great ideas. Sincerely, Rose
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Trender_
Dec 2, 2011 @ 6:19 am | delete
- Really cool lens. So much interesting data I will have to remember to come back.
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sukkran
Nov 22, 2011 @ 2:02 am | delete
- you have such an exemplary and kind heart, and i can not thank you enough for all you did (and continue to do) to help me by your encouraging comments and blessings. thanks again for everything. my best wishes. sukkran
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BeautifulAlise
Nov 13, 2011 @ 6:46 pm | delete
- Wow! This is great! I love interesting facts
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spartakct
Nov 11, 2011 @ 7:28 pm | delete
- Wonderfully interesting! thanks for sharing!
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COUNTRYLUTHIER
Nov 4, 2011 @ 5:52 pm | delete
- What a stark set of visual statistics. Thanks for the eye opener!
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MelissaInTheSky
Oct 28, 2011 @ 3:44 pm | delete
- What a fascinating lens! Wow! This is so cool. I will be sharing it with others. Thanks for putting it together. Thank you, also, for liking and commenting on my OWS lens!
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Pinkchic18
Oct 25, 2011 @ 8:03 am | delete
- Blessed by a squid angel! This lens was simply great! I am one of those people who have to see things to understand them and this was really interesting to see. Thank you for putting this together, very, very neat!!
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sukkran
Oct 24, 2011 @ 11:40 pm | delete
- very interesting and well presented lens.
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wilfredpadilla
Sep 28, 2011 @ 6:32 am | delete
- Very interesting! You can say that again!
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Mermaiden
Sep 26, 2011 @ 5:56 pm | delete
- i'm totally a visual learner. visual representations are not only a great way to learn but sometimes help people understand a complex idea in a more simplified manner. i learned so many amazing stats by browsing your page. the scariest was the obesity video. Scary!
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jc91583
Sep 26, 2011 @ 2:41 pm | delete
- Great information. Thank you so much for the learning experience.
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davespeed
Sep 24, 2011 @ 12:40 am | delete
- Kudos on this brilliant lens! Fascinating!
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