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Relational ornaments

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:33:50 +0000

Gundega Strautmane, a Latvian textile artist and designer, visualizes social and physical networks in a show called Relational Ornaments. The networks are created using various sized pins to depict nodes and threads connecting them to show relationships. Bringing visualization …

Good use of pie charts

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:01:25 +0000

This Wall Street Journal graphic shows who’s selling (or sold) a percentage of their Facebook stocks and who’s holding steady.

This graphic is the perfect example of why I’m a proponent of the pie chart. First, they stuck to two values …

Compendium of Advanced Graphics Tools

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:10:00 +0000

The skilled designers over at datavisualization.ch pulled together this list of preferred applications, code libraries, and tools. Dig in! I wish I had time to learn them all. Sigh.

Tip for interviewers.

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:33:46 +0000

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How Would You Cut Defense?

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:49:59 +0000

The NYT presents a list of options for you to decide how to trim defense spending. As usual, it’s not quite as easy as you might think – but I still got it up over $800 billion. I like this interactive way of educating people about budget issues.

50 Years of Government Spending

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:35:50 +0000

I usually don’t like viewing stacked bars over time – it’s too hard to see what’s changing. This one still isn’t perfect, but the deficiencies are moderated somewhat by clear labels and only having the three columns. Content wise, it’s pretty fascinating too.

Is the filibuster unconstitutional?

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:01:38 +0000

Washington Post’s Ezra Klein busts on the filibuster. Gone are the days of

The Facebook Offering: How It Compares

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:01:26 +0000

The New York Times does it again with this succinct look at tech IPOs. It begins with looking at everything through the lens of when Google’s IPO in 2004, which, at …

Montana can’t sleep

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:24:43 +0000

Help is a drug company that offers you less. Less active ingredients, less waste, less confusion, less greed. Its tongue-in-cheek website has a map of its latest sales data called “What’s wrong U.S.?” A bar chart for each state shows how many people are buying products …

Changing what you see in the mirror.

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:06:04 +0000

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