50 Great Examples of Data Visualization Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter. Music, Movies and Other Media Narratives 2.0 visualizes music. Liveplasma is a music and movie visualization app that aims to help you discover other musicians or movies you might enjoy. Tuneglue is another music visualization service. MusicMap is similar to TuneGlue in its interface, but seems slightly more intuitive. Digg, Twitter, Delicious, and Flickr Internet Visualizations
Improving visualisation - Gallery "Spike" map Interactive United States population density map. Average rating: 7.5 (23 votes) 2D histogram An extension of the concept of histogram to display the colour image content. Average rating: 4.8 (5 votes) 3D graphic An example of a 3D visualisation, used in this case to represent an object. Average rating: 2.2 (11 votes) 3D Infographic This is an online application that presents backdated meteorological data from Augsburg, Germany. Average rating: 5.9 (9 votes) 3D Map 3D-rendered map of London showing landmarks and accurate locations of tube lines. Average rating: 5.8 (10 votes) 3D scatterplot Extension of a scatterplot to third dimension to represent measurements on sepals and petals of Iris flowers. Average rating: 3 (3 votes) Accesibility Map The map shows the average number of pickups for different times of the day and days of week Average rating: 3.3 (3 votes) Accessibility map Average rating: 6.8 (4 votes) Agreement chart Average rating: 3.7 (3 votes) Annotated Google map Area profiler Bar chart
Dans les testicules de Darwin infographics Infographics News, a somewhat new BlogSpot blog, has a short list from Ninian Carter of some great infographics of the last year. Ninian Carter is an scottish infographic journalist, well, the Phineas Fogg of the infographic journalists: he has worked in Scotland, England, France, Australia… and his last job was in Canada, at The Globe & Mail, place he left recently. So, as the A Team, he is avalaible for works… (if you click on his name, opening the post, you’ll go to his personal web). Once you get past the horrible spelling of the article (spell-check people, it’s a handy feature), it’s a nice collection of infographics. I’ll probably post some of these online throughout the day in full-size. via Infographics news: Best infographics of 2010 according to Ninian Carter. Share
Infographics news Science Blogs: definition & history I have been asked recently to write an article, somewhat along the lines of this one but longer, and with a somewhat different angle, asking a little bit different questions: What makes a science blog? Who were the first science bloggers and how long ago? How many science blogs are there? How does one differentiate between science blogs and pseudo-science, non-science and nonsense blogs? The goal of the article is to try to delineate what is and what isn’t a science blog, what are the overlaps between the Venn diagram of science blogging and some other circles, and what out of all that material should be archived and preserved forever under the heading of “Science Blogging”. We’ve had these kinds of discussions for years now… but I’ll give it my best shot. Defining a science blog Defining a science blog – heck, just defining a blog – is difficult. What is considered a science blog varies, and has changed over the years. Finally, blogging is not just about text. What is a blog carnival?
How The World Spends Its Time Online - VisualEconomics.com Have you ever wondered how people across the world spend their time online? Global research firm Nielsen periodically releases data from its studies of consumer behavior online. Here are the 2010 findings regarding social networking, branding and world net usage. Total Time Online The average person spends more than 60 hours a month online. Social networking accounts for 22 percent of the time while 42 percent is spent viewing content, whether watching videos, reading articles or playing online games. Among people who use the Internet, each person visits 2,646 Web pages on 89 domains and logs in 57 times per month. Most Popular Brands The percentage of all online users that visit Google is 82. Social Network Usage The highest percentage of internet users who log onto social media is in Brazil, with 80 percent using social network sites. Daily Internet Activities For many, internet use is a daily occurrence. Click For Full Size Comments comments
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