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Evolution of a Political Map
A nice progression of intermediate steps in preparing a newspaper map of Santorum’s campaign, using R.
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Elegant Growth
Sometimes you have to strangle software to get what you want. I was looking for a new way to compare world growth across analytical groups. Starting with an excel bubble chart, I noticed that sorting...
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Compendium of Advanced Graphics Tools
The skilled designers over at datavisualization.ch pulled together this list of preferred applications, code libraries, and tools. Dig in! I wish I had time to learn them all. Sigh.
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Interactive Chart Selector
Not sure what kind of chart best suits your data? Use the tabs at the top to indicate what kind of comparison you want to make. Not much different than the original version, really.
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How Colorblind are You?
An interactive online Hue test. It’s a little tedious to sort all the squares – but kind of challenging too. I got a 20, which apparently puts me in the top 25% or so.
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Charts via Fonts
FF Chartwell is an interesting tool for creating simple charts using font character sets. I’m not sure that this is really much easier than using excel or other charting software, but some people might...
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Top 20 Data Visualization Tools
A list compiled by Brian Suda over at netmagazine.com. It’s a little heavy on java libraries – but I suppose that’s the direction visualization is heading. Still, you think basic tools like...
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Timeline Wizardry
Timelines are underutilized visualization tools – partially because they are a huge pain in the ass to create. Nate Kogan describes his experience using Timeline.Verite.Co’s nifty javascript timeline...
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Infographic Vector Graphics
Yes, I know everyone out there is a master at Illustrator and can create any image they want in mere moments. Ha! But why re-invent the wheel?!? There are a lot of cool free and pay collections of...
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Reverse Engineering a Chart
Every once in a while you discover something that is obviously useful, but for some reason, you never even considered it before. That happened to me today in the form of graph digitizing software....
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Raw: a Vector Visualization Tool
Raw is a pretty cool (and free!) online tool for creating vector outputs of uncommon visualizations. You copy and paste your data, select a few options, and it cranks out the visualization. What’s so...
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Keynote ‘13 Sucks
Apple finally released a new version of Keynote last week – and it is terrible. In an effort to make the ios version of Keynote on ipads/iphones work the same as the OSX version, they removed a lot of...
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