BlueHarvest - Standards-based grading and two-way feedback organization Data Visualization Techniques The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Rob and Duncan are currently in Seattle, with this week full of interviews of SEO consultants for our US office. Since the announcement in February, we have been working flat out with a bunch of new clients and dealing endlessly with the US immigration service. With people on the ground, I guess we're now officially participating in the American dream, so to celebrate I'm going to spell Visualization with a z throughout this post. Anyone who has heard me speak will know about my love of data. I expect that everyone in SEO has spent at least some time recently thinking about data visualization techniques. Last week, I was approached by the FT to pull together some data for them about the use of the web (and social media in particular) across the UK's political parties as we approach the election. 1. 2. 3. I'm not a designer. 4. 5. Source: LocateTV 6. 7.
How would you Visualize World Education Ranking Data [Homework + Video] Posted on December 20th, 2010 in Charts and Graphs - 23 comments Here is a charting challenge to begin your Christmas week. Recently Guardian’s Data Blog released World Education Rankings data and a sample visualization (shown below). Kaiser at Junk Charts took this data and suggested a few alternative visualizations [part 2]. (shown below). While Kaiser‘s charts are probably more insightful, they also appear complicated to my layman eye. Naturally I wanted to give this data a charting-shot and see what comes up. But before I show you how I cooked my chart, I want to throw a challenge to you. Your Homework – Make a chart from World Education Rankings data Download the original data from here (or from here).Make a chart (or few charts) visualizing the data.Your objective is make it easy for us to understand the World Education Rankings DataUpload your workbooks to Skydrive or some other public file sharing site.Share the URLs, images etc with us thru comments.Bask in glory! Now your turn,
Pattern Fill addin When completed the chosen pattern and colours are applied to the select chart element, if applicable. Chart with normal formatting Chart with Shingle pattern applied. The add-in will now handle shapes as well. Excel Gradebook for Beginners, Lesson One: Organizing Data This is the first in a series of posts (also available over at What It's Like on the Inside) on building your own gradebook. If you're not into the whole gradebook idea, I'd encourage you to keep reading, anyway. The tips and formulas would be just as useful for whatever data set(s) you are managing. Are you an elementary teacher who DIBELs? In a school with MAP testing? A district with various benchmark or interim assessments where you want to look at performance by classroom or school? One of the most frustrating things (for me) as I try to do new things with Excel is the lack of non-business examples. I've had a lot of you contact me over the summer asking about my Excel gradebook and any updates. As you will see, the workbook has two worksheets: Scores and Report. I populated the Scores worksheet with some names, assignments, and data. In the next session, I'll show you how to create a dropdown list of student names.
10 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs | DJDESIGNERLAB - Find All Your Design Inspirations From This Laboratory The visual structures such as Graphs and Charts are a valuable presence in web development. The visual structures can easily simplify complex data and output that can be chosen to put a list of JavaScript graphs. Today we present 10 such JavaScript solutions for Charts and Graphs to make easy your website development much easier. JS Charts JS Charts is a JavaScript chart generator that requires little or no coding. jQuery Visualize The Visualize plugin parses key content elements in a well-structured HTML table, and leverages that native HTML5 canvas drawing ability to transform them into a chart or graph visualization. Highcharts Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. jqPlot Computation and drawing of lines, axes, shadows even the grid itself is handled by pluggable “renderers”. TufteGraph PlotKit PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. jQuery Sparklines Raphaël
pyExcelerator | Download pyExcelerator software for free [BeGraphic Lite] Add-On gratuit à Excel pour la visualisation de cartes Excel Add-On For Map And Data Visualization Published by Leszek Pawlowicz at February 16, 2010 in cartography, software and spreadsheet. 1 Comment Claude Henri-Meledo writes to tell me about BeGraphic Lite, a free data visualization tool for Microsoft Excel. I don’t currently have easy access to Microsoft Excel (I’m working in OpenOffice exclusively), so I can’t try it out, but it looks interesting. It apparently does a wide variation of data graphics, not just maps; these include: A few sample map screenshots from the website: BeGraphic LIte works with the free vector graphic map data available at d-maps.com, which now has 7500 maps available (up from 4000 when I posted about the site in August 2009).
Excel for Educators Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software Organisms | Home SBG Implementation: Topic Scales For those of you not active in the twitterverse, among the people I follow there's been an increasing interest in standards-based grading. SamShah called us an "inspiring ideological cult." I'm taking that as a compliment. With that in mind I'm going to explain my process for implementation. Assumption: You already have a basic idea of what standards-based grading is. Things to keep in mind: There is no canon for SBG. What I've developed has been reasonably successful for my students, YMMV. Jargon alert: I'm going to use the word "standard" to refer to any unit of knowledge or skill you want to teach and assess. Step one in my adventure into standards-based grading: Building Topic Scales Ok, maybe this isn't the first, first, first step, but it's the first meaningful one and most of us start here. Even if you are not planning to implement standards-based grading, this is a valuable activity to do. For a quick review on why I chose to use topic scales, check out an older post. Grain size.