communicating with data
Inspired by the, well, inspiring set of Lost visualizations released by Santiago Ortiz – Lostalgic, I decided to publish the one visualization on all the data I had gathered on the Song of Ice and Fire series of books. Click to see the vis Here’s the idea behind this one. Many books set in a [...]
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 [...]
This week, FlowingData has organized the contest. A chart was submitted, and contestants were asked to improve it. A lot of my job revolves around reviewing and correcting graphs, so I was more than happy to compete. Here is the original graph, hosted & designed by Swivel: The rules of the contest stated that the new [...]