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Power of Data Visualization - Filed under 'timeline'
Visualization: Annotated Time Line - Google Chart Tools - Google Code
Important: To use this visualization, you must specify the height and width of the container element explicitly on your page. So, for example: . You can display one or more lines on your chart. Each row represents an X position on the chart--that is, a specific time; each line is described by a set of one to three columns.
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Gallery of Data Visualization - Introducton
This Gallery of Data Visualization displays some examples of the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics , with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to both historical and current work. We go from what is arguably the best statistical graphic ever drawn , to the current record-holder for the worst . Like good writing, good graphical displays of data communicate ideas with clarity, precision, and efficiency. Like poor writing, bad graphical displays distort or obscure the data, make it harder to understand or compare, or otherwise thwart the communicative effect which the graph should convey. [See the Bad Writing Contest for examples of The Best of Bad Writing.
How can you show the details of a history visually? Time provides one obvious dimension. What else can you show to tell the story?
Gallery of Data Visualization - Timelines
This is an expanded version of a timeline that appeared in Cabinet's "Histories of the Future" issue. Daniel Rosenberg's introduction to the timeline can be found here . Although we have not been able to preserve the horizontal design, we have added additional entries for this web version. If there are omissions or errors, we'd love to hear from you.
CABINET // A Timeline of Timelines
Visualising Time
Visualising time or, best said, visualising the events that occur in time, is not so usual a topic. There aren’t so many visual metaphors associated to it either. We take a look at them here. Time is an elementary magnitude, a primary concept that can’t be defined in terms of other, more basic, concepts . As such its definition is difficult and it’s based on the universal human experience that time does exist and has certain properties. In other words, we have a very rudimentary knowledge about the nature of time.The ThemeRiver™ visualization helps users identify time-related patterns, trends, and relationships across a large collection of documents. The themes in the collection are represented by a "river" that flows left to right through time. The river widens or narrows to depict changes in the collective strength of selected themes in the underlying documents. Individual themes are represented as colored "currents" flowing within the river.
InfoViz - Technologies - ThemeRiver™
Gallery of Data Visualization - Visual Explanation
Mark Lombardi: Network Diagrams of Conspiracy : George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens c. 1979-90, 5th Version 1999 full size (214 x 600; 16kb) Mark Lombardi (1955-2000) was an abstract painter, best known for his network diagrams of crime and conspiracy. Lombardi's drawings attempt to document financial and political frauds by power brokers. Nodes in the diagrams represent individuals, corporations and government agencies, connected by lines showing associations, deals and so forth. His 1999 drawing, entitled George W.
Gallery of Data Visualization - Historical Milestones
Florence Nightingale 's Coxcomb diagrams Coxcomb, original (537x462) [37K] || SAS re-creation (486x501) [5K] Florence Nightingale (portrait [41k]) is remembered as the mother of modern nursing. But few realize that her place in history is at least partly linked to her use, following William Farr, Playfair and others, of graphical methods to convey complex statistical information dramatically to a broad audience. After witnessing deplorable sanitary conditions in the Crimea, she wrote Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army . (1858), an influencial text including several graphs which she called "Coxcombs".