FreeMind How to Find the Right Chart Type for your Numeric Data 22 Feb 2016 Charts help you visualize numeric data in a graphical format but the problem is there are just too many types of charts to choose from. This diagram will help you pick the right chart for your data type. couch mode print story Charts help you visualize numeric data in a graphical format but the problem is there are just too many types of charts to choose from. If you are finding it hard to pick the right chart type for your type of data, refer to chart chooser diagram. The poster, designed by Andrew Abela, is also available as a PDF. Related: Create Graphs Online with Google Charts You may also want to check out Chart Chooser – an online tools that lets you shortlist charts visually. Comments are closed but if you want to respond, please send me an email or tweet.
Data Pointed Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies Started Dec. 26th, 1998 by Later updates by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant - Last update Sept 2014 Our treemap products: Treemap 4.0: General treemap tool (Free demo version, plus licensing information for full package) PhotoMesa: Zoomable image library browser (Free demo version, plus licensing information for full package) Treemap Algorithms and Algorithm Animations (Open source Java code) A History of Treemap Research at the During 1990, in response to the common problem of a filled hard disk, I became obsessed with the idea of producing a compact visualization of directory tree structures. Tree structured node-link diagrams grew too large to be useful, so I explored ways to show a tree in a space-constrained layout. My initial design simply nested the rectangles, but a more comprehensible design used a border to show the nesting. My excitement about treemaps was great and like many innovators I thought millions of users would be using this tool within a few years.
Brian.Shaler.name | 3rd Party Digg Development Digg Oracle The Digg Oracle is a Google Gears tool that indexes your Digg history and allows you to sort, search, and filter stories you have voted on in the past. It uses a local SQLite database to store and parse the data, so after a one-time sync with Digg's servers, the tool does not have to connect to the internet to perform the searching. Venn Friends Type in your Digg user name, and you will see a Venn Diagram of your friends and fans. People who you have added as a friend are on the left, people who have added you as a friend are on the right, and mutual friendships show up in the middle. Wheel of Upcoming Stories The Wheel of Upcoming Stories is a Flash visualization of recently submitted Digg stories. Digg Heat Map The Digg Heat Map was based on the same data as my previous maps of the Digg community. Digg RADAR Expanding from the Map of the Digg Community, I set up a real-time feed from Digg, showing little thumbs-up icons whenever a user "Diggs" (votes on) a Digg story. DiggTaggr
The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published 4 classic books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the "Leonardo da Vinci of data," and Business Week as the "Galileo of graphics." He is now writing a book/film The Thinking Eye and constructing a 234-acre tree farm and sculpture park in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity. He founded Graphics Press, ET Modern gallery/studio, and Hogpen Hill Farms LLC. Visual Display of Quantitative Information 200 pages Envisioning Information 128 pages Visual Explanations 160 pages Beautiful Evidence 214 pages Same paper and printing as in original clothbound editions. All 4 clothbound books, autographed by author $150 Available directly from Graphics Press. Die visuelle Darstellung quantitativer Informationen, (200 Seiten), $12 数量情報の視覚的表示, (200 ページ)、$12
Mindmapping, concept mapping and information organisation software Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics JESS3™ yEd - Graph Editor yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button. yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OS X. The latest release is version 3.12.2 Key Features Import your own data from an Excel® spreadsheet (.xls) or XML Create diagrams with easevia an intuitive user interface. Automatically arrangeyour diagram elements. Export bitmap and vector graphicsas PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, SWF yEd in 90 seconds Supported Diagrams yEd supports a wide variety of diagram types. Support Resources The yEd online support resources include the yEd Graph Editor manual and the yEd forum where you can give us feedback.
code_swarm An experiment in organic software visualization. A moment from the Eclipse project. [video] I've been studying software projects for a while now. Not the programming, but the people -- the way they interact with each other through collaboration and communication. My investigations have always been visual: I've built applications that create pictures of what is happening within software projects. This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. Please have a look at the videos below. The code is open source and available at Created by Michael Ogawa with Processing. VIDI group, UC Davis
10 Outstanding Social Media Infographics | @NowSourcing.Com Nobody has time to read anymore, right? Every day we are all inundated with more and more information overload coming from credible and yet to be verified sources. Where can Internet users find relief? Answer: the infographic. Infographics are a wonderful mix of key data and visualization that can really bring the message home if put together correctly. So without further ado, we bring you our top 10 favorite social media infographics! Update: Check out our infographic design services 1 – World Map of Social Networks Let’s start at the 50,000 foot view, shall we? (Source) 2 – Age Distribution on Social Network Sites Is age distribution targeting more your thing? (Source) 3 – Social Media Periodic Table of Elements As we previously reported, our friend and fellow Advertising Age Power 150 member Eyecube created another great visualization called the social media periodic table of elements: (Source) 4 – The Conversation Prism 5 – The Boom of Social Sites (Source) (Source) 7 – Hubspot Twitter Territory
Best Infographics Ideas and Free Tools Look at pretty much every blog, professional site and presentation these days, and you will notice that most of them have infographics, which are charts that display a visual image in order to supply data to the user. They are highly functional and often work more effectively than graphs and charts alone. They are also more pleasing to the eye and can break down concepts for easier understanding. But for every good one, there is a bad one that looks cluttered and doesn’t manage to get the point across. Here are some of the best examples and tools to assist you in creating your own. Inspiration Online Piracy With new legislation being argued right now in the Senate to curb piracy, there is a lot of misunderstanding about the topic itself. It illustrates that popular movies are not affected in profit by illegal downloading. Calorie Intake & Outtake There are plenty of charts out there about food intake for dieters to keep track of their calories. How Coffee Affects the Global Economy Tools