FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, and computer scientists are using data to help us understand more about ourselves and our surroundings, mainly through visualization.
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Flowchart Friday, anyone? This one describes the process to solve all of your problems. Unfortunately, sometimes in life, you just end up going around in circles. That's what Maury Povich taught me.
FlowingData This one's for the programmers. And maybe some mathematicians.
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This particular audibilization is just one of many ways to generate sound from running sorting algorithms. Here on every comparison of two numbers (elements) I play (mixing) sin waves with frequencies modulated by values of these numbers. There are quite a few parameters that may drastically change ...
FlowingData Best data goodies of the month, in case you missed them.
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It's definitely been a hectic month. With one month left until my thesis defense, there's no letting up, and it's time to turn on the after burners. It's definitely been interesting though, culling everything I've learned these past five years.
FlowingData Mmm, scaled rectangles and bubbles.
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Connoisseur of scaled rounded rectangles, bubbles, and triangles, David McCandless of Information is Beautiful talks data visualization in recently posted TED talk (below). He explains how information design can help us get through information glut on the Web and how simple charts can show patterns ...
FlowingData A beautiful animation showing asteroid discoveries around our solar system.
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This animation by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center shows a beautiful view of the past 30 years of asteroid discoveries, using data culled by Ted Bowell et al.
FlowingData Tons of icons showing the most popular sites on the Web.
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Nmap visualizes site popularity as scaled icons. Favicons, that is. They're that little icon that shows in your address bar or when you bookmark a site in your browser. If you're reading this on FlowingData, you should see a little red icon next to the URL. The larger the icon, the more popular the ...
FlowingData Fun with parallel coordinates.
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What country has the best education? Health? Quality of life? Thomas Klepl and Adam Clarkson of Newsweek take a look at important metrics for the world's best countries. It's basically a parallel coordinates plot turn on its side. Each show represents a metric, and each circle in a row is a country.
FlowingData Exciting work from Stamen and SimpleGeo right here.
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In a collaboration between SimpleGeo, who makes location data easier to access, and Stamen, who does all kinds of wonderful with maps, announced Polymaps today. It's a free and open-source JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG.
FlowingData Got a hot date this weekend? Make sure it's appropriate, you know, socially.
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Dating can be tough. What should you talk about? Where should you go? Most importantly, should you even be dating that person? Erik Bryan and Jennifer Daniel help you out with that last one. Not sure whether it's appropriate to date that person or not? Consult this detailed flowchart.
FlowingData RIP, Web. We will miss you.
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Wired has declared that the Web is dead in their September cover story, and they lead off with this stacked area chart showing the decline of browser-based consumption. Each layer represents a way to consume media via the Internet. Instead of the browser, the majority of US traffic, as estimated by ...
FlowingData Your path to a PhD awaits.
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When I first got in to graduate school, I really had no idea what I was getting in to. I thought it'd be like undergraduate studies, but harder. Not really. You definitely do a lot more unguided, independent work. You don't have someone telling you what to do, so it's up to you to figure out what yo...
FlowingData Try this venn diagram if you're looking for a date this weekend.
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