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Whether you're in Barcelona or back at home here's our Twitter visualisation to help you keep track of what's going on at this year's Tableau European customer conference. Read More The following post is a guest post by Mark Peck – Database Administrator and Tableau Jedi from HiFX. Mark has kindly taken the time to explain his recent journey taken to understand the database behind Tableau server. Many thanks Mark. With Tableau being so good at providing mechanisms for users to analyse, report, extract and present data, we have quickly built a very large repository of workbooks and views.
The Information Lab - Read our blog
Way back in 2009, we had a beautiful guest post by Giedre Aleknonyte describing a workaround to generate Choropleth Maps with Tableau (using version 5.0 by the way). Those days are over. One of the major new features of Tableau 7 is Filled Maps (or Choropleth Maps as we used to call them in all blog posts here).
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Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog
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Since the goal of VC is to be a unified resource space, here are many related links to projects, people and institutions that, even though couldn’t be featured on the VC database, are extremely relevant in the context of Information Visualization.
This is a genealogical map of Jesus, from the creation of Adam and Eve through Noah, the tribes of Israel, King David, and finally Joseph and Mary. It includes everyone whose ancestry can be directly traced all the way back to Adam and Eve according to the biblical record. The map shows only father-son and father-daughter relationships, with the exception of Mary, who is shown as the spouse of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. Some relationships may also indicate a more distant ancestry than the usual father-child lineage.
Mapping God's Bloodline
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This project explores how data visualization techniques can be used to display the contents of library catalogues, creating a new way of searching for information. The first part of this project uses The St Bride Library catalogue as a subject to develop a visual system that can be applied to any other library using a similar classification system. The final design displays the libraries classification hierarchy and the volume of information held on each subject within the classification system. The screen-based outcome of this project is a prototype of an interactive tool/website that enables users to compare library catalogues and discover which libraries hold the most items on a given subject by comparing their library spot size.
Max Planck Research Networks
This multi-touch installation, on display at the Max Planck Science Gallery , explores how the various Max Planck Institutes collaborate with each other, and with their international partners. Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) comprises nearly 80 research institutes covering different areas, such as natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. With 32 Nobel Prizes amongst its associated scientists, MPG is one of the most respected scientific institutions in Germany and Europe.
The viral protest meme known as "Occupy Wall Street" is still going strong, and according to some provocative research to be published in PLoS One , it may never have reason to run out of steam. Why? Because "the 1%"--#OWS-speak for the tiny subgroup of wealthy interests that exerts outsize influence over "the 99%" comprising the rest of us--may be a mathematically inevitable consequence of the way networks self-organize.
Infographic Of The Day: Is "The 1%" Inevitable, Given How Networks Work? | Co.Design
We hear incessantly about the rise of China. So much so that it’s all a bit too abstract: What does it mean that China’s has become a global force? And more importantly, how have they actually accomplished that? The quick answer? Through business dealings rather than military alliances, and a superb infographic from the Heritage Foundation offers a rarely seen snapshot of that. I say rarely seen because The Heritage Foundation boasts that it possesses the only database of China’s global investments, and they’ve actually made it available for public consumption.
Infographic Of The Day: China's Checkbook Diplomacy | Co.Design
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A part of my movie ticket stubs stash. At first I wanted to do something out of keywords we could grab on the movies but Jen came up with another idea I found more worth pursuing: working around the story types (which was the most interesting aspect of the curated contest dataset) and see if there was not some kind of grand truth we could unravel there. She also requested stars and glitter, because we were not going to work on this glamorous dataset with a tedious dashboard done in Excel. That truth didn’t take so much time to find: the most frequently used story types (like comedy or movies with monsters) do not perform well in the box office while different story types (stories of teens growing up, or when the main character turns into something else), which are used less often, are much more profitable. So why doesn’t hollywood make more Junos and Black Swans and fewer College Road Trips or Dylan Dogs?
Corporate annual reports and the Wikipedia are two great resources to find really bad charts. We can’t do much about corporate reports, but we can actually change the Wikipedia articles. So, here is an assignment for you: find a bad chart and replace it with one that actually makes sense from a data visualization point of view. Do it once a month. Here are a few examples to inspire you. If you like data visualization and don’t feel embarrassed by these charts, I don’t know what will motivate you.
Change Bad Charts in the Wikipedia The Excel Charts Blog
Well, here is my first chart in Tableau, finally! After publishing my experiments with population pyramids (using Excel), I thought I could try Tableau Public with the same dataset from the US Census Bureau. Here is the result. I never really played before with Tableau Public and it took my less than an hour to upload the data and make this chart, without reading a manual or watching a tutorial (changing line colors was the hard part). It says a lot about its usability.
Beautiful but Terrible Pyramids: Tableau Edition The Excel Charts Blog
Jerome Cukier » Promising difficulties
At the recent VisWeek conference, Jessica Hullman and her coauthors presented ” Benefitting Infovis with Visual Difficulties (pdf)”, a paper that suggests that the charts which are read almost effortlessly are not necessarily the ones that readers understand or remember best. To answer that claim, Stephen Few wrote a rather harsh critique of this paper (pdf). As I read this I felt the original paper was not always fairly represented, but more importantly, that the views develop by both parties are not at all inreconcilable. Let me explain.Open Knowledge Foundation is an important promoter of open knowledge, data and content. I think it's time to show some appreciation by highlighting some of their initiatives. Read more Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books.
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MIG Inc. teamed up with the folks at Stamen Design for a series of interactive maps for the One Bay Area project. The first map in this series, the Travel Time and Housing Prices map , shows the relationship between travel time for different modes of transit, and housing prices in the bay area. Let’s say you’re looking for a place to live in the San Francisco area. First, you start by entering your office address — let’s use the Stamen studios on Mission Street as an example.
Travel Time and Housing Prices Map on Datavisualization.ch
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