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...
Interesting Visual Statistics Posts
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- Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you're having a great holiday season so far. Good food, good company, and more good food. This will be my last post for the year, but don't fret. FlowingData will ret...
- Dec 24, 2009 @ 2:10 amThe Decline of Maritime Empires from FlowingData
- This experiment (below) by graduate student Pedro Miguel Cruz shows the decline of Maritime empires during the 19th and 20th centuries . Pedro explains: I don?t wanna call this small experiment of inf...
- Dec 23, 2009 @ 9:41 amClimate Change: A Consensus Among Scientists? from Information Is Beautiful
- Off the back of the recent Climate Skeptics vs The Consensus image, we were curious how many scientists might make up ‘The Consensus'. The Skeptical side claims at least 31,486 dissenters in...
- Dec 23, 2009 @ 2:05 amElastic Lists Celebrates Five Years of Information... from FlowingData
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- Dec 22, 2009 @ 2:08 amBuild Statistical Graphics Online With ggplot2 from FlowingData
- Statisticians are generally behind the times when it comes to online applications. There are a lot out-dated Java applets and really rough attempts at getting R, a statistical computing environment, i...
- Dec 21, 2009 @ 2:55 amData Underload #2 from FlowingData
- Dec 18, 2009 @ 2:00 amVirtual Slot Machine Teaches the Logic of Loss from FlowingData
- This interactive by Las Vegas Sun describes how in the long run, you're going to lose every single penny when you throw your hard-earned money into a slot machine. In the short-term though, it is poss...
- Dec 18, 2009 @ 12:43 amBest of FlowingData 2009, and What to Expect in 20... from FlowingData
- It was another interesting and sometimes exciting year for FlowingData. To think, I was beaming when there were 7,000 of you at the beginning of 2009. Now there's almost four times that many of you, j...
- Dec 17, 2009 @ 2:18 amInfographic Coins for International Visitors from FlowingData
- You know when you go to another country and have no clue what the coins of the local currency are worth? I always end up with a giant handful of international coins, which doesn't go well when I try t...
Beautiful Data
The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
Amazon Price: $38.53 (as of 12/27/2009)
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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