Archive for the 'Data Visualization' Tag

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Data-Visualization: Visualizing Corporate America

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Based on data from the SEC for 60,000 directors or high-level employees, Toby Segaran created this graphical network of major US companies that share board members or CEOs. A bit like a social network graph for companies.

Besides the relationship between the companies the diagram also visualizes…

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Data-Visualization: OpenStreetMap London Progress

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You might have heard about the “OpenStreetMap” project that creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to everyone. What most users of mapping software and services don’t know - there are often license or technical restrictions how you can use data and maps available commercially or by other providers. That’s what OpenStreetMap is trying to overcome.

Particularly with mapping data from the UK, where the government agency in charge…

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Data Visualization: Impact of the Subprime Crisis

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We always love the data visualizations from the New York Times. Their designers are really doing an outstanding job.

Yesterday they have published another great one on a topic that is very hard to visualize - a graphic showing how regions throughout the United States are hit differently by the Subprime Mortgage crisis and the level of foreclosures resulting from that.

More information and the full size graphics at the “New York Times”.

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Time waster: Proximity of Needs

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A great way to watch time passing by and how beautiful mathematics can be visualized.

It is an interactive animation where you can change the parameters for the calculations and graphical simulation.

More information on the project page at…

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Turn your web site into a graph

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This great applet will turn your web site into a graph. You just need to enter an URL and the screens shows how the graph is dynamically build step by step.

The tool was created with…

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Data-Visualization: The world according to newspapers

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We always knew that the press and journalists are selective with what story makes it to the cover pages or even receives a few paragraphs to be mentioned. But nobody has visualized this so far and shown how unbalanced some newspapers are regarding world news.

The two heatmaps below show news coverage by geographical region from the Daily Mail and The Economist during 2007. They are part of a series of heatmaps created within a project by French journalists Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Gilles Bruno. The two are planning to…

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Data-visualization: Charting The Banking Crisis

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The web log “And Still I Persist” has made two interesting implementations available that demonstrate how data-visualization tools similar to “Gapminder’s Trendalyzer” can be used to show patterns in vast amounts of data.

They used OSG’s Boomerang technology to show changes in banks’ mortgage portfolios based on the data the banks have reported to the FDIC. The first chart / animation shows the amounts of 90+ days late mortgages and the second one visualizes the changed amounts in mortgages that…

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Data-Visualization: Country Codes of the World

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Currently more than 260 top level domains are in use on the Internet. While the .com domain still remains the most popular, many country domains are now widely used as well.

On the map below each country is represented…

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Data-Visualization: Pi played on the piano

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As it will be Pi-Day (14-March) this week we would like to remind you to “Felix Jung’s” great visualization and sonification of the number pi…

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Data visualization: Social networks around the world

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With new data on Facebook making the headlines yesterday telling us that their user numbers are leveling out in the US and the UK, we remembered that we recently have seen a great info-graphic showing the use of social networks with the most popular providers per country around the world in the French Newspaper “Le Monde”

The data used in the graphic is from August 2007 but it’s interesting to see the popularity of providers in different countries. There are a few white spots on the map, some…

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