This Techcrunch articles features two real-time data displays. One is from Facebook Places and the other is from Apple’s App Store. Fun visualizations.
Aug 26
Check out this Techcrunch article about a new charting tool for real-time database reporting, chart.io.
Aug 14
I’m not sure exactly what to do with this, but it seems kind of interesting. A Harvard grad student decided to create a visualization of the world’s population and longitude. Check out the Alltop recap.
Jul 31
Google now offers the capability to not only access many public data sets, but to explore the data using their visualization tools. Cool stuff.
Jun 27
There are some analytics products that receive high degrees of notoriety. Palantir is not one of them. Primarily used by the government, their technology allows non-technical users to see relationships between disparate data. Until this Techcrunch article I hadn’t heard of them at all.
Apr 26
Here’s an interesting visualization at Gizmodo showing the huge number of servers that Google has compared to the relatively small number everyone else has.
Mar 21
Here’s an interesting visual analysis of something we do all the time – type. Thanks to Flowing Data for highlighting it, but the original is from Weathersealed.
Feb 21
The NY Times has a great visualization of Netflix dvd rental data that shows the top 10 dvd rentals for the zip codes in 12 major metro areas. Make sure to mouse over the map to see the top 10 list for your specific zip code.
Dec 02
Here’s a cool visual Ebay made to show where all their sales came from on Black Friday.
Nov 07
Nathan at Flowing Data has put together a list of seven Flickr groups where you can find some good visualization works.
