Category Archives: Tool

Fuelly | Share and Compare Your MPG

Posted on August 9, 2012 by np@ha

Fuelly is a site that lets you track, share, and compare your gas mileage. Simply sign up, add your car, SUV, or motorcycle, and begin calculating your gas mileage. To date, 97,334 Fuelly users have tracked 2,811,181 fuel-ups in 135,396 … Continue reading →

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Quadrigram

Posted on July 26, 2012 by np@ha

Quadrigram provides tools to gather, process and visualize information. It aims to facilitate the production of visual solutions, and empower you to take advantage and interpret the deluge of data generated in your domain of activity, reducing the analytical complexity … Continue reading →

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Amazon.com: Getting Started with D3

Posted on July 12, 2012 by np@ha

Learn how to create beautiful, interactive, browser-based data visualizations with the D3 JavaScript library. This hands-on book shows you how to use a combination of JavaScript and SVG to build everything from simple bar charts to complex infographics. You’ll learn … Continue reading →

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Animated Bubble Charts in D3

Posted on July 12, 2012 by np@ha

Recently, the New York Times featured a bubble chart of the proposed budget for 2013 by Shan Carter . It features some nice, organic, animations, and smooth transitions that add a lot of visual appeal to the graphic. This was … Continue reading →

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Better World Flux

Posted on March 15, 2012 by np@ha

Better World Flux – where progress flows. “In essence the Flux is a glorified histogram. It displays a snapshot of the world state for a given year; green being good and red being bad. Within each colour of the Flux … Continue reading →

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Hey Analyst : Ggobi

Posted on March 1, 2012 by np@ha

Another night, this time nose stuck in Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis with R and GGobi. 1. I hope calling it an interesting read won’t totally label me as an effing nerd, but it is. 2. Cook and … Continue reading →

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The Oscar Senti-Meter

Posted on February 24, 2012 by np@ha

Nice visualization from the LA Times which allows you to view public sentiment about Oscar nominated movies based on Tweets over time. “The Oscar Senti-meter is a tool developed by the L.A. Times, IBM and the University of Southern California … Continue reading →

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David McCandless: A Taxonomy of Ideas

Posted on February 24, 2012 by np@ha

Did you ever have a brainstorming session where you are like, WTF? David McCandless (of Information is Beautiful and TED fame) presents us with a handy dandy method of charting the functional vs. dysfunctional, levels of conceptual structure and is … Continue reading →

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Stimmungsgasometer

Posted on February 21, 2012 by np@ha

Wow. Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus built the little slice of awesome documented at http://fühlometer.de/.  From their website: “The project Stimmungsgasometer is about a smiley on a huge screen from which one can read the average mood … Continue reading →

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Matthew Ericson – Elegant design

Posted on February 20, 2012 by np@ha

Matthew Ericson impresses me with his singular purpose in his online data visualization applications. Check out CountingTweets or weather.ericson.net. I want all data to be so simply interactive and useful.

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