communicating with data
what led me to those choices I was technically happy of my entry for the sports contest. I had done what I wanted: obtain a hard-to-find, interesting dataset, attempt to create an exotic, hard-to-make and never-tableau’d-before shape with aesthetic appeal and insights. Yet the rules stated that the entries shall be judged on the story-telling [...]
Here is my entry for the Tableau 2012 politics contest. Source of the data: Economic statistics from OECD, opinion data from TNS Sofres. Making-of and explanation post to follow.
So here goes for the 2012 Tableau contest entry. Before I go on explaining what this is about and how it’s been made, I’d like to express my thanks to Opta for letting me use this awesome dataset. They have been very reactive and supportive. So what is this? So the assignment was to create [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
myDashboard Powered by Tableau so here it is. I chose to compete on the Activity Rates and Healthy Living data set, because after downloading it I really enjoyed exploring it. If the viz doesn’t show well in the blog, here’s a link to its page My main reason for entering the contest is to be [...]
Healthcare Napkins All View more documents from Dan Roam. Slideshare 2009 contest is up again, and there’s about 1 week to vote. For the contest, I’m endorsing Dan Roam and counting on everyone to vote for him and support his presentation. Previous winners of the contest include Shift happens or Thirst who got a lot [...]
Here is the processing applet with source code for my entry. The code is based on a charter program I’ve been working on and off for a while, which I’ll publish once it’s more polished. Select the applet then press a key to alternate between the 2 representations. The text file is the data, and [...]