Business Intelligence and Visualization
Making sense of the senseless
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Yet another mapping tool: this time in watercolor!
Stamen design has come up with map tiles of the world that are actually a delight to look at. Check out the watercolor effect live in the embedded iframe below, or go their website and check out their...
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New mapping tool on the block: Kartograph
via flowingdata.com Born out of discontent with current mapping solutions, Gregor Aisch's Kartograph gives you an alternative to Google and Bing maps that definitely looks better and is actually...
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Bear 71 successfully marries narration and interaction
via bear71.nfb.ca Bear 71 is a harrowing and well made documentary that lets you interact with data while the narrator explains the fate of bears in a national park. The task of mixing media and balancing...
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Hollywood Budgets: an entry for the Challenge of the Stars
I decided to enter the Challenge of the Stars by Information is Beautiful. Basically, the task is to visualize 4 years of hollywood movie performance. The result can be found here: http://bit.ly/xDNwtg...
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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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