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From FlowingData…. Statistical literacy guides for the basics Sep 3,2010 to Statistics | Post on Twitter “You can get pretty far with data graphics with just limited statistical knowledge,but if you want to take your skills,resume,and portfolio to the next level,you should learn standard data practices. [...] A good piece on the googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com on how the Wall Street Journal crew created a fine set of maps illustrating various major-city marathons. Go here for complete piece. WSJ goes the distance with the Google Maps API Sunday,August 08,2010 The following guest [...] From GISUser at http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=6962 Social Media and Geo-Services – A Fabulous ArcGIS Explorer,Twitter mashup Modeling real-time situations… This video goes back a few months to the Haiti disaster response,however,its a great example and reminder of how geo technology (ArcGIS Explorer in this case) and social media (Twitter) can be combined [...] Go to:http://flowingdata.com/2010/05/26/bp-tries-to-mislead-you-with-graphs/ BP tries to mislead you with graphs
BP senior vice president Kent Wells explains in this new video what his group is doing towards repairing the leak. He presents the bar graph above to show the improvement in their efforts. It's increasing,so they must be improving. Nifty. The problem is that it's cumulative,and the rate at which they're collecting isn't improving. From the Maddow blog:
“Reporting Complexity (with Complexity): General Systems Theory,Complexity and Simulation Modeling“ See the PPT slides from a vid-conference lecture from Santa Fe to INDIANA UNIVERSITY –PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS School of Public and Environmental Affairs School of Journalism COURSE:Mass Media &Public Affairs March 31,2010 ============================================================================= Many of us are commonly using the term “data visualization”or “dataviz”or even “infoviz.” Perhaps we should add to the lexicon “newsviz.” If so,you saw it here first. Maybe. In any event,check out this interesting page at Slate. News Dots:The Day's Events as a Social NetworkAn interactive map of how every story in the news is related,updated daily.
Like Kevin Bacon's co-stars,topics in the news are all connected by degrees of separation. To examine how every story fits together,News Dots visualizes the most recent topics in the news as …[...] Press Release 10-028 2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=116369&org=NSF Winning entries appear in the Feb. 19 issue of Science “Branching Morphogenesis”aims to reveal–through abstraction–the unseen beauty and dynamic relationships that exist between endothelial cells and their surrounding extracellular microenvironment. Movies of networking endothelial cells cultured on a 3-D matrix were analyzed [...] Press Release 10-028 2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=116369&org=NSF Winning entries appear in the Feb. 19 issue of Science “Branching Morphogenesis”aims to reveal–through abstraction–the unseen beauty and dynamic relationships that exist between endothelial cells and their surrounding extracellular microenvironment. Movies of networking endothelial cells cultured on a 3-D matrix were analyzed [...] From FlowingData:
Review:The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics Feb 18,2010 / Infographics,Reviews / Add your comment Add another book to the growing library of guides on how to make information graphics the right way. Dona M. Wong,former graphics director of The Wall Street [...] From the Society of Newspaper Designers via FlowingData: The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic January 20th,2010 One of The Times’ recent graphics,“A Peek Into Netflix Queues,” ended up being one of our more popular graphics of the past few months. (A good [...] | ||||||
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