O’Reilly Radar’s visualization of the week is one by Tony Hirst showing all of your Facebook friends’ likes. The best part is he tells you exactly how to do it using Gephi and Google Refine.
Jan 10
If you’ve ever wondered which neighborhood has more men or women on a given night or where all the people from different parts of town are going, Uber might have it figured out. They’ve used data from their cab service to map people flows in San Francisco.
Oct 29
ReportGrid offers an API to report or visualize anything running as SaaS. There are some examples of what ReportGrid’s Visualization Engine can do. Prices start at $50 per month. Check out the
TheNextWeb article.
Oct 25
Check out the post on the Tableau Software blog about the Iron Viz contest, a data visualization version of the cooking show, Iron Chef.
Oct 15
Sentiment analysis is a hot topic these days. Everyone is trying to figure out what customers mean in the free text data that they create – twitter, survey comments, product ratings and reviews, and more. O’Reilly Radar has picked some work done on the ultimate text source, the Bible, as their visualization of the week. OpenBible.info has just released a sentiment analysis visualization of the Bible.
Oct 06
Oct 06
Connected Action has a cool set of visuals made with network graph tool, NodeXL. They used the twitter user information for the recent attendees at the WikiSym 2011 Wiki conference and graphed out their interconnections.
Here’s a sample from NodeXL:
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.
Feb 17
Here’s a treemap visualization from the NY Times of Obama’s proposed 2012 US government budget.
