Well I’ve managed to hold off for 53 posts but finally I’m compelled to discuss Minard’s 1869 graph depicting Napoleon’s 1812 march on Moscow, a graph famously described by Edward Tufte as possibly being “the best statistical graphic ever drawn“. It has come up now because Andrew Arbela on The Extreme Presentation Method blog has published a […]
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Here are some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during May 2010.
Best of the visualisation web… May 2010 Read More »
Following the popularity of the Visualising the World Cup 2010 post I published last week, here is something of a sequel presenting a whole host of further examples. Many thanks to all who submitted comments, tweets and sent me emails with suggested links to some of the items displayed below.
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Over the past couple of years we have experienced a number of key world events and stories that have triggered vast amounts of data and information outputs – the US elections, the financial crisis, Haiti earthquake, UK elections and the Iceland volcano are just a few that spring to mind.
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Picked up via an article on a BBC tech blog, below is a video from the Mashable’s YouTube channel showing the Apple App Store visualisation ‘hyperwall’ they’ve on show at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. This visualisation shows the live progress of the 50,000 most popular app downloads from the Apple App Store. As each
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The BBC has published a set of graphics to support their analysis of the (re-) increasing financial crisis across the Eurozone. The first graphic (debt) presents both the national debt and deficit as a % of GDP. Wisely the values are presented on a colour-coded scale using only a single colour. This makes it easier for
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Lazy pun, I know, but it’s hard not to be lethargic after the fantastic weather we’ve had here in England. According to records it is the first consecutive Friday, Saturday and Sunday sequence where we have had nice weather since 1836. That’s not entirely true but it feels like it. Anyway, whilst this post is
Having picked up a recent blog post by Stephen Few about a graph that had been promoted as an example of good practice by Oracle’s BI suite, I was searching around for reports on BI vendors and came across a decision matrix report by DataMonitor from 2007. The report I unearthed was on the SAS site,
I’ve been sent a link to an interesting new service offered by 3M (who despite apparently having a portfolio of 55,000 products I still think of as the Post-it Note company). It is called the ‘Visual Attention Service’ and is pitched around the tag line “You’ve got seconds to engage a viewer. Be sure they count”: As
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Not sure how and why I’ve missed this publication for so long but today I’ve come across Information Age magazine having unearthed links to a couple of very interesting articles which I recommend you read. Firstly, one published today entitled “The Analytical Eye” talks about the as-yet untapped potential of data visualisation across business. It contains discussions
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