Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, likes the visual design of the How to Fix It project by Google Newslab and Xaquin, and suggests that the search index data need to be pre-processed.
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, likes the visual design of the How to Fix It project by Google Newslab and Xaquin, and suggests that the search index data need to be pre-processed.
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, likes the visual design of the How to Fix It project by Google Newslab and Xaquin, and suggests that the search index data need to be pre-processed.
The Newslab project takes aggregate data from Google's various services and finds imaginative ways to enliven the data. The Beautiful in English project makes a strong case for adding playfulness to your data visualization. The data came from Google Translate....
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, finds two examples of interactive graphics that enhance the reader's experience.
It’s Sunday, and I [Bob] am just sitting on the couch peacefully ggplotting to illustrate basic sample spaces using spinners (a trick I’m borrowing from Jim Albert’s book Curve Ball). There’s an underlying continuous outcome (i.e., where the spinner lands) and a quantization into a number of regions to produce a discrete outcome (e.g., “success” […] The post Animating a spinner using ggplot2 and ImageMagick appeared first on Statistical Modeling,…
Xan Gregg - my partner in the #onelesspie campaign to replace terrible Wikipedia pie charts one at a time - has come up with a new chart form that he calls "packed bars". It's a combination of bar charts and...
What made this infographic from South Carolina Ports is the choice of contextual comparisons. The simple animation also helps. (Original here if the animated gif isn't working.) The random colors mean nothing but they did make me look at the...
The New York Times spent a lot of effort making a nice interactive graphical feature to accompany their story about Uber's attempt to manipulate its drivers. The article is here. Below is a static screenshot of one of the graphics....
Via Twitter, reader Joe D. asked a few of us to comment on the SparkRadar graphic by WeatherSpark. At the time of writing, the picture for Baltimore is very pretty: The picture for New York is not as pretty but...
Surveys generate a lot of data. And, if you have used a survey vendor, you know they generate a ton of charts. I was in Germany to attend the Data Meets Viz workshop organized by Antony Unwin. Paul and Sascha...
