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Protovis Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB). This project was led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with significant help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Updates June 28, 2011 - Protovis is no longer under active development. September 17, 2010 - Release 3.3 is available on GitHub. May 28, 2010 - ZOMG! October 1, 2009 - Release 3.1 is available, including minor bug fixes. September 19, 2009 - Release 3.0 is available, including major performance improvments, bug fixes, and handy utilities such as scales and layouts. Getting Started How does Protovis work?

Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements See the data: bit.ly/snakeoilsupps. See the static versionSee the old flash version Check the evidence for so-called Superfoods visualized. Note: You might see multiple bubbles for certain supplements. These is because some supps affect a range of conditions, but the evidence quality varies from condition to condition. For example, there’s strong evidence that garlic can lower blood pressure. This visualisation generates itself from this Google Doc. As ever, we welcome your thoughts, crits, comments, corrections, compliments, tweaks, new evidence, missing supps, and general feedback. » Purchase: Amazon US or Barnes & Noble | UK or Waterstones » Download: Apple iBook | Kindle (UK & US) » See inside For more graphics, visualisations and data-journalism:

Semantic Maps The Semantic Maps extension adds semantic capabilities to the Maps extension. This includes the ability to add, edit, aggregate and visualize coordinate data stored through the Semantic MediaWiki extension. Since Semantic Maps uses the Maps API, you can use multiple mapping services. These include Google Maps (with Google Earth support), Yahoo! Maps, OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap. Download and installation[edit | edit source] See the installation instructions. Documentation and examples[edit | edit source] Since MediaWiki.org does not have Semantic Maps installed the usage documentation is placed on semantic-mediawiki.org, where live examples work and use can be made of the automatic documentation features of Semantic Maps. Go to the Semantic Maps documentation or the Semantic Maps examples. Reporting issues[edit | edit source] Issues should be reported in the issue tracker. Gallery[edit | edit source] Some screenshots of Semantic MediaWiki query results displayed on maps and map form inputs:

11 Ways to Visualize Changes Over Time – A Guide | FlowingData Deal with data? No doubt you've come across the time-based variety. The visualization you use to explore and display that data changes depending on what you're after and data types. Maybe you're looking for increases and decreases, or maybe seasonal patterns. This is a guide to help you figure out what type of visualization to use to see that stuff. Let's start with the basics: the line graph. An example: Comparing Roger Clemens to Hall of Fame Pitchers Scatterplots work well if you have a lot of data points. An example: Oxygen Concentration Over Time Bar charts work best for time series when you're dealing with distinct points in time (as opposed to more continuous data). An example: Who’s Going to Win Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest? Use this the same way you would a bar chart when you have multiple categories (hence the stacking). An example: Bad Housing Loans in Forclosure The stacked area is the stacked bar's more versatile sibling. An example: Past 25 Years of Consumer Spending

Maps API Documentation Version 2 of the JavaScript API has been turned down Warning: Version 2 of the Google Maps JavaScript API is no longer available. Please follow the guide to migrate your code to version 3 of the Google Maps JavaScript API. As of November 19, 2013, all applications requesting v2 are served a special, wrapped version of the v3 API instead. We expect this wrapped version of the API to work for most simple maps, but we strongly encourage you to migrate to the v3 API immediately. The Google Maps API is regularly extended, adding new functionality and features that are often released on maps.google.com first. The Google Maps API exports a factory method for creating browser-neutral XmlHttpRequest() objects that work in recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. var request = GXmlHttp.create();request.open("GET", "myfile.txt", true);request.onreadystatechange = function() { if (request.readyState == 4) { alert(request.responseText); }}request.send(null); The Geocoding Object New!

9 Ways to Visualize Proportions – A Guide | FlowingData With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your decision easier for one particular type of data: proportions. Maybe you want to show poll results or the types of crime over time, or maybe you're interested in a single percentage. Here's how you can show it. We all know about the pie chart. The circle represents the whole, and the size of wedge represents a percentage of that whole. See the pie in action: What Do You Use to Analyze and/or Visualize Data? Oh yes, it's pie's lesser-used cousin, the donut. See the donut in action: What Britain Has Eaten the Past Three Decades Use the stacked area chart if you want to show changes over time for several variables. See the stacked area in action: (Baby) NameVoyager If you have only a few distinct points in time, you can use the stacked bar chart in the same way you use the stacked area (just set the bars vertical). Did I miss anything?

GoogleMapExtension The Google Maps API provides an easy way to generate custom maps for your web site. I've hacked up an extension/skin hack that allows users to embed custom Google Maps in any page. Currently, users can customize the following parameters of the map: Size Width of the mapHeight of the mapCenter Adjust the latitude and longitude of the center pointZoom Adjust the zoom level of the mapPoints to plot User can specify RSS feeds to plot if the feed has geographic info embeddedBy default it graphs all points in the database that have <geo> tags. More info on the extension can be found at A modification of this extension can be found at m:User:Mafs/GoogleMapExtension Mafs 22:51, 30 July 2005 (UTC). This Google Maps extension was the first such extension for MediaWiki. Microsoft Pivot: Interact With Massive Amounts of Data | FlowingData What if you could see all the individual bits of information scattered across the Web in one view and then interact with it in a meaningful way? This is what Microsoft Live Labs' new Pivot experiment tries to do. Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web. The goal is to let users make connections between pages, data points, photos, etc that go beyond links, with what the developers call collections. Pivot's ability to display lots of thumbnails and then reorganize and zoom in on them is the tool's foundation. Jeffrey Heer et. al. wrote a paper on these transitions a while back. All in all, it's an interesting concept, and it will be fun to see where the Live Labs team takes the project. [Thanks, Jeff]

Maps API Version 2 Reference Version 2 of the JavaScript API has been turned down Warning: Version 2 of the Google Maps JavaScript API is no longer available. Please follow the guide to migrate your code to version 3 of the Google Maps JavaScript API. As of November 19, 2013, all applications requesting v2 are served a special, wrapped version of the v3 API instead. We expect this wrapped version of the API to work for most simple maps, but we strongly encourage you to migrate to the v3 API immediately. The Google Maps API is now integrated with the Google AJAX API loader, which creates a common namespace for loading and using multiple Google AJAX APIs. For example, the GMap2 object within the Google Maps API can also be defined as google.maps.Map2. Note that this reference documentation refers only to the existing G namespace. Core Class: This is the most important class within the Maps API. Base Classes: Event Classes: Control Classes: Overlay Classes: Service Classes: class GMap2 Constructor Methods Configuration Controls

Information goes out to play Serious information used to be relayed in words, graphs and charts - pictures were just pretty window dressing. That's all changing, says David McCandless. E-mails. News. Facebook. Wikipedia. In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging that could help us cope with the oceans of data surrounding and swamping us. The approach is simple: apply the rules of visual design to information - make information into images, rather than text. So, instead of listing the mind-boggling billions spent by governments, show them graphically - like The Billion Dollar O Gram image at the top of the page. The image arose out of a frustration with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the media. Or, in another example, instead of explaining the connection between say, mercury and the influenza jab, depict it visually. SOURCE: David McCandless And instead of leaving your data just sitting in a spreadsheet, let it out to play - use it to structure a visual image. I love information.

Technology Review: Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet Vast quantities of data are freely available on the Web, and it can be a potential treasure trove for many businesses–providing they can figure out how to use it effectively. A company can, for example, comb through data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and court records prior to acquiring another company to see if any of its intellectual property is tied up in legal action. In practice, however, going through so much information takes time and effort to orchestrate. IBM hopes that a new tool, called BigSheets, will help users analyze Web data more easily. “The ability of any user to do their own types of interesting analytics is coming of age,” says Rod Smith, vice president of emerging Internet technologies for IBM. BigSheets is built on top of another piece of software called Hadoop. BigSheets uses Hadoop to crawl through Web pages, parsing them to extract key terms and other useful data. To use BigSheets, a user would point the tool at a set of URLs or a repository of data.

Why Americans are fat Education Database Online Why Americans Are Fat Embed the image below on your site <a href=" src=" alt="Why America is Fat" width="1050" height="2350" border="0" /></a><br />Created by <a href=" Education</a> Created by Online Education & Online Colleges If you take a look around, or even look into the mirror, it is likely that you know America has a weight problem. You have probably seen on the back of packages of food the text “based on a 2000 calorie diet”. People that exercise often burn more calories. This imposes many costs to society. See Also Local Medicine and Health Schools © 2014 Education Database Online | Privacy Policy | Contact

It is an interesting service for people having data without resources to render it. Low cost approach in creating visualization. by rww Sep 27

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