Archive for the ‘Reference’ Category
Map Projections
10 Mar 2010A lot of people are familiar with the distortions of the standard Mercator projection, but Radical Cartography has a pretty comprehensive annotated library for browsing if you’re into that sort of thing.
Google Public Data Explorer
In: Employment| Global Economy| Graphic Design (general)| Infographic (clever)| Maps| Reference| Science
9 Mar 2010
Tableau Public Examples
In: Culture| Employment| Graphic Design (general)| Reference| Sports
1 Mar 2010I’ve just started playing with this new online interactive visualization tool, but it looks fantastic.
Here are some examples of what other people have produced with it:
How Inventory Affects GDP
In: Reference| Source: WSJ| US Economy
26 Feb 2010
Supreme Court History
12 Jan 2010Comprehensive visualization of the US Supreme Court. It works best as an office poster, obviously – and can be purchased that way for your lawyer friends. It’s the first project from TimePlots – I look forward to more good things from them in the future
Major Trends and Events 1750-2100
In: Culture| Global Economy| Politics| Reference| Science
8 Jan 2010
2009 Top News
In: News Media| Reference
4 Jan 2010Good Magazine presents a treemap of news coverage, colored by politics, culture, business, and “bad news”. Interestingly, Sociological Images notes that the data comes from the Pew Research Project’s Journalism.org, which presents a weekly report of media content – including additional breakdowns such as by media outlet.
NYC Subway Travel Times
In: Culture| Interactive| Maps| Reference
4 Jan 2010Enter an address on the triptrop site and a Googlemap will come up overlaid with subway travel times to various part of NYC. (via)
Google Image Searches
1 Dec 2009Several sites have noted Google’s new “Image Swirl” toy (FlowingData for example). It’s fun to play with. An example search for “Santa” is below. I would add that the standard Google image search now has a number of really cool options: you can filter by image size, dominant color, and type of image (photo/clipart/drawing – those these categories aren’t always accurate). Filtering by image size, for example, can help exclude pay-for-image library thumbnails.
Piracy Watch
12 Nov 2009As a demo for their “visual fusion” software, idvsolutions has produced an interactive map and timeline of global ocean piracy. Not bad, though bing maps seems to be having trouble integrating with it a little.
Good Design
11 Nov 2009From Information is Beautiful, a nice venn of what goes into good design – should be helpful when trying to figure out what’s missing from a graphic.
Fun with Weekly Data
In: Graphic Design (general)| Infographic (clever)| Reference| US Economy
29 Oct 2009This 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.
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)
Visual History of The Federal Reserve
In: Finance| Reference| US Economy
26 Oct 2009
How to Crack a Combination Lock
13 Oct 2009Simple instructions on how to break into a Master combo lock in less than 100 attempts (instead of trying all 64,000 possible combinations). (via)
Instrumental Range
In: Culture| Interactive| Reference| Science
6 Oct 2009A wonderful interactive chart showing the frequency range of various musical instruments and how they correspond to human hearing.
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