August 12, 2005

Best of Show

One of the better sessions at the 2005 JSM was on "Data and the Digital Arts". Here are some visualizations which are quite nice. Not from a general statistical analysis view, but still nice to watch. What is interesting with all examples is the use of smooth animation, which is probably not necessary for most of them, but can be very helpful to preserve context.

- enjoy

Baby wizard ZIP Codes Text Arc
BW ZIP TA
Martin Wattenberg Ben Fry W. Bradford Paley
(click on the images to enlarge)
Posted by Martin at 01:24:09 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |

August 02, 2005

News Visualization

The "Buzztracker" is a nice visualization of current world news. Here is a screenshot of Aug. 2nd.

Buzztracker

Circles are sized according to the amount of news related to a site, lines link sites which are connected by an event in an article.

There is also a dashboard widget available:

Posted by Martin at 09:03:18 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |