Fun with Weekly Data

In: Graphic Design (general) Innovative Reference US Economy

29 Oct 2009

This is a bit old (the data ends in July ’08), but I like this animated approach to displaying high frequency data over time. Something like this might be interesting to do for cross-country financial data-series.

image

Impressively, Jon Peltier came up with a way to do this in excel (and check out his blog for other really cool excel chart tricks and solutions)

image

Comment Form


blog advertising
is good for you

What is Chart Porn?

An addictive collection of beautiful charts, graphs, maps, and interactive data visualization toys -- on topics from around the world.

  • edj: The bodies predisposition to get fat from carbs is a wonderfully outdated survival method/instinct t [...]
  • RJS: Highly entertaining this, however misleading it might be--if indeed it is misleading. The problem is [...]
  • Al: Designers out there will enjoy this 'making of', walking through the designs they tried and discarde [...]
  • Matt: Totally misleading. The recent spending cuts were not an Obama policy; Afghanistan was overwhelmingl [...]
  • Mike Liveright: Two comments, though I do like the look and results... 1) Since $'s are linear, I think that a 2 [...]