communicating with data
a couple of days ago I posted the contribution of relative keywords to the earnings of a given movie. Well, it occurs that the cast of a movie is much easier to obtain than keywords and much less messy. So, I also had scraped the 4 lead actors for each movie of the Beautiful Information [...]
Ever heard of the Information is Beautiful awards? It’s visualization competitions a monthly visualization competition put together by David McCandless of Information is Beautiful fame. Part of it are monthly competitions that run on a curated dataset. Jen Lowe and I are making a team for the current one about the movie industry and we [...]
At the recent VisWeek conference, Jessica Hullman and her coauthors presented ”Benefitting Infovis with Visual Difficulties (pdf)”, a paper that suggests that the charts which are read almost effortlessly are not necessarily the ones that readers understand or remember best. To answer that claim, Stephen Few wrote a rather harsh critique of this paper (pdf). As I read this [...]
Normally, at this time of the year, I’ll be writing a recap of VisWeek. And I will – the writeups I have been doing for visualisingdata.com were just highlights of individual talks. But much of my VisWeek 2011 experience happened in between the talks. People you meet, ideas you glimpse, that collide and generate new [...]
If you think of data visualization as a great way to bring together heaps of interesting data and, well, a visual language, one of the most exciting areas in terms of room for improvement has to be how surveys are visualized. In conversations with my pollster friend @laguirlande, I often find myself regretting that when [...]
Last month, visualizing.org organized an event in Brussels to gather European dataviz folks. As far as I’m concerned, the main output of that is that a handful of those present decided to create an informal discussion group to share ideas and promote data visualization. The group as it currently stands includes @datavis (@wiederkehr), @FILWD, @infosthetics, [...]
This year I have participated to the VAST Challenge (VAST stands for visual analytics science and technology). The VAST symposium is part of the yearly VisWeek conferences. Anyway. The rules required contestants to send videos with voiceovers, so without further ado here they are. Watch me in HD instead!! Watch me in HD too!! If [...]
I’ve been posting quite a few times on Tableau these last few days, so I’ll end up the week with one viz I had previously shared on twitter with some success. Sheet 1 Powered by Tableau so what’s the story? I have been inspired to do this via the work on onformative which I discovered [...]
have been announced. My entry got honorary mentions which is the best I could hope for not being based in the US! anyway, the rewards is going through the process, seeing what others have done. and learn from the process. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Agnieszka – Russian Sphinx chose a subject similar [...]
Real-estate transactions in ManhattanResidential buildings, 2003-present Powered by Tableau Here is my Tableau contest 2011 entry. The rules stipulated it had to be about business, real-estate or finance, so I chose real-estate. Since everyone loves New-York, and since the data for real-estate transaction is relatively easy to get, that’s what I show. In order to [...]