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...
Great Visualizers: Good Magazine
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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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Radiohead - House of Cards
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.
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.
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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Data Visualization refers to using images and graphics to represent amounts and categories. The basic representations include pie charts, bar charts, and line graphs. That is just the start, and it can get much more exciting. It takes a lot of work...
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- Dec 15, 2009 @ 2:16 amCanvi & Temps: An Exploration of Science Over Time from FlowingData
- Bestiario, the group behind 6pli and a number of other network projects, released their most recent project - Canvi & Temps - that explores the complexity of science since the early 1920s. The first p...
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- Dec 14, 2009 @ 2:37 amData Underload #1 from FlowingData
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- 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)
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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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Nov 12, 2009 @ 7:36 am
- Wow! This really shows that you can presently data visually that is quite appealing and almost artistic too! I love the Good Magazine -- now that would be the place to work eh? Ah, good idea!
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- saritajain86 saritajain86 Nov 7, 2009 @ 1:46 am
- Great stuff on this lens... THank you...
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- dreaming_lucid dreaming_lucid Oct 19, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
- What a great idea for a lens. Very cool. And thanks for stopping by my mantra insights page.
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- bengriston bengriston Sep 21, 2009 @ 1:38 pm
- Excellent visual stats. The gallons of fuel for traveling 350 miles really says a lot.
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- mitchking mitchking Sep 21, 2009 @ 11:00 am
- Data is much easier to understand when there is a graphic to help you better see what it is saying. Nice lens of some interesting facts.
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