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From the Vaults: Maps are Just Another Element
For the Grammar of Graphics language-based approach to visualization, and therefore in the RAVE visualization system, maps are simply another element that can be used within the grammatical...
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iTunes Music to Data, via Python
8000+ iTunes songs by genre and artist, colored by rating (ManyEyes version) The track information stored in iTunes is pretty interesting from a visualization point of view, as it contains dates,...
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Chord Display (Music)
ITunes Music with a RAVE Chord visualization I took the data from my last post, aggregated up some fields and made a Chord Diagram for it, using RAVE. I was lazy and didn’t do a stellar job on rolling...
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Wikipedia Recent Changes
Wikipedia Recent Changes Map shows a good example is a good, clean, simple implementation that addresses the question: “How is Wikipedia being Edited right now?” Some of the features of this...
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Vega: A New Grammar-Based Specification for Visualizations
I’m a big fan of using languages for visualization rather than canned chart types. I’ve been working with the Grammar of Graphics approach for a number of years within SPSS and now IBM, and my book...
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Every Now and Again, a Pie can be Good
It is hard to find anyone in visualization today with much time for pie charts. In fact it seems de rigueur to disdain them. And yet we see an awful lot of them. Now, I’m not going to claim that they...
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Visualizing Tennis
I’m a member of the American Statistical Association’s “Statistics in Sport” section (http://www.amstat.org/sections/sis/) and I’m also British by birth, so Andy Murray’s success at Wimbledon this year...
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Comics and Visualization
Comics and Visualization Although this book is over a decade old now (and Scott has a number of later books that follow on from this one), this is still a highly valuable book to read, getting great...
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Appropriate Mappings
Vox Article on viral memes and charitable giving First, a disclaimer. This is not a post about the actual issues this article raises; just about the presentation of those claims. The image from the...
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A Quick Look at Lots of Songs … iTunes information about my songs, showing year, genre and my ratings A quick visualization of the songs in my iTunes database. I was curious to see if there were any...
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