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Jun 5 / 4:48pm

Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

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TED presentation by Aaron Koblin featuring few of his data visualization projects, including Wilderness Downtown video. Link via @helen_off_troy.

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Sep 25 / 8:20pm

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
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TED presentation on data visualization.

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Jun 9 / 10:38pm

Information Display Tips

The most effective use of Bertin’s retinal variables are summarized in a visual format in the book Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS by John Krygier and Denis Wood. The chart below shows which visual variables, as they call them, are most effective for showing qualitative or quantitative differences according to Bertin. Krygier and Wood also show how to represent the attribute through points, lines, or areas.
more on understandinggraphics.com

Short piece on usage of basic cues for visualizing data.

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Jun 5 / 11:04pm

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

This image is based on an excellent post at The Cynical Musician called The Paradise That Should Have Been about pitiful digital royalties. I’ve taken his calculations and added a few more.
more on informationisbeautiful.net

Great visualization comparing artists' revenues from different sources.

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Mar 9 / 1:01am

Edward Tufte Presidential Appointment

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
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Obama appoints Tufte to work on visualizations of recovery stimulus.

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Feb 17 / 1:01am

Tableau Public

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Excel on steroids. Unfortunately, the editor is only for Windows.

Filed under: statistics   visualization