Business Intelligence and Visualization
Making sense of the senseless
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Venn diagram: Platypus playing a keytar
via flowingdata.com Brilliant diagram by Tenso graphics.
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Racial divide mapped with spacial rifts
via flowingdata.com Jim Vallandingham uses Javascript (D3, my favorite library) to visualize segregation in certain areas of the US. The larger the disparity of race--whatever race means--the larger...
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Microfinance loans visualized by Kiva.org
via vimeo.com Kiva.org posted a time-lapse of loan movement between givers and receivers; it's a bit confusing because it seems to filter out certain loan types at certain times, but overall it does...
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Wolfram|Alpha goes commercial
In a rather long post, Stephen Wolfram explains more money is needed to push Wolfram|Alpha beyond its current limits. Although he's not specific about the mehtods heintends to use, there is mention...
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Charting on the go: Using Mozilla Ubiquity for quick visualizations
For charting on the go, I modified the Charts script for Firefox's Ubiquity add-on to accept commas as decimal separators. You can download or fork it here. What is Ubiquity? "Ubiquity is an experimental...
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Rorschmaps brings psychedelic map remixes to your desktop
Rorschmaps combines all the fun of maps with the mesmerizing action of kaleidoscopes. It's more addictive than I make it sound and may lead you to print several posters. Here's a screenshot of Hamburg...
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Dear Facebook: Please do not use concentric circle charts, they suck.
Dear Facebook developers: Concentric circles (well, technically bottom-aligned contained circles) are difficult to interpret. The brain just isn't wired to compare circular areas. Square areas: no problem. Circular areas: impossible. Consider this screenshot from your reports: If the large blue area were to signifiy a Target Market of 100,000 people, how many do you think the green circle would represent? 75%? 80%? How about 60%? The right answer is, shockingly, 52%. See what I mean? Please get rid of the circles...
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Free Statistics Reference
Statsoft's Electronic Statistics Book is an excellent reference that I keep finding my way to. If you need to refresh those concepts of time-series analysis or want a somewhat comprehensive list of differentanalysis techniques, you'll find it all neatly structured. And for free. http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/
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Sales receipt redesign
via flowingdata.com This is BERG's attempt at a redesigned receipt. I like the idea of adding charts, but find the whole thing a bit lacking. If I had my way, every item would have a sparkline showing...
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