Oct 05

Here are some best practices for data visualization.

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Sep 22

Square, the company that offers a hardware plugin for collecting credit card payments from your Iphone or Ipad, has just released a new tool for displaying time series. They call it Cube.

Check out FlowingData for more info.

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Apr 21

Computerworld put together this list of data visualization tools. They have a ton of information on their site, but here’s the list.

  1. Datawrangler
  2. Google Refine
  3. The R Project
  4. Google Fusion Tables
  5. Impure
  6. Tableau Public
  7. Many Eyes
  8. VIDI
  9. Zoho Reports
  10. Choosel
  11. Exhibit
  12. Google Chart Tools
  13. JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
  14. Protovis
  15. Quantum GIS
  16. OpenHeatMap
  17. OpenLayers
  18. OpenStreetMap
  19. TimeFlow
  20. IBM Word Cloud Generator
  21. Gephi
  22. NodeXL
Feb 18

Google has a new tool for exploring public data sets. Check out Public Data Explorer. Here’s a n O’Reilly Radar recap. There’s also a Google Labs project called DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language for representing the data and metadata about datasets.



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Feb 17

Here’s a treemap visualization from the NY Times of Obama’s proposed 2012 US government budget.

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Feb 15

HotPads.com is a new tool for shopping for houses and they do so in a visual way. And here’s the FastCompany article.



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Feb 05

The FellinLoveWithData blog points to 7 classic foundational visualization papers your should read.

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Feb 03

Check out LinkedIn’s new visualization tool, InMap, that shows you an interactive view of how all your contacts are related. Here’s a post on the LinkedIn blog with more info. And here’s DJ Patil, Chief Scientist, introducing the tool.




The tool they used is called Gephi and is available at gephi.org.

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Jan 22

Mozilla announces the winners of their open data visualization competition.

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Jan 18

Here’s a Techcrunch article by Mark Suster about driving personal creativity using visualization.

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