Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

You may think that the debate over pie charts was a new one, but it has raged on for at least 100 years. Brinton started it in 1914, and great drama unfolded in the pages of the Journal of the American Statistical Association in the 1920s.

Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations in the Java programming language. Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction.

We're a semantic technology company that instantly delivers deep insights from the world's data. Since 2009, we've amassed the world's deepest and most interconnected knowledge graph, encompassing 500 collections, 1 billion entities, 250 bi...

The inaugural address contains the first words uttered b... It is an untarnished moment during which the American le... presidential tone, inspire a country, put an election to...
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Fabric.js is a framework that makes it easy to work with HTML5 canvas element. It is an interactive object model on top of canvas element. It is also an SVG-to-canvas parser.

let’s try to find all possible ways to visualize a
ludicrously small data set of two numbers. Afterwords,
let’s try to pick the best visualization.

Climate Central’s Surging Seas project highlights land...
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... e is, in short, trying to rethink how data is presented.

LucidChart is the missing link in online office producti...
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Launched in May 2010, DataMarket.com is a data portal th... to statistics and structured data from various public an... organizations.
This enables users to find, compare, visualize and downl ...
Access to public sector and other open and free data is

Gephi is an open-source software for graph and network a...
* explore
* analyze
* spatialize
... of a case study, from data file to nice printable maps.

Are some fonts more believable than others? A curious ex... documentary filmmaker Errol Morris suggests as much. Aft... approximately 45,000 unsuspecting readers on nytimes.com... that subjects were more likely to believe a statement wh... in Baskervi

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Based on a True True Story?
Scene-by-scene breakdown of Hollywood films

I hope my video offers just a feel of what you can find ... Factbook eXplorer website. Just as exciting is the OECD'... Statistics site.
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Inspired by Ed Hawkins’ climate stripes, the new air quality stripes show air pollution from 1850 to today. Each year is a separate vertical bar that is coloured according to the amount of particle pollution. Air that meets World Health O...

Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms canvas, java... Willison, I was made aware of an old but interesting pos... visualizing of sorting algorithms. Aldo Cortesi explains...
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Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engi... automatically organize small collections of documents, e... results, into thematic categories.

Cats have nine lives and 72-hour days
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These are an interesting collection of maps that may hav... our planet in a completely different way!

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Objec... then apply data-driven transformations to the document. ... example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table f... numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive ...
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D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents... helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3... web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern ... tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining pow... components

The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source refe... anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in Lon ...

Are most online data visualisations, well, just not very...
It's an issue we grapple with a lot - and some of you ma ...
Poor Wordle - it gets the brunt of it. It was designed a ...
In the last week alone, New York Times senior software a ...
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Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descript... variety of conventional ways to visualize data – table... charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every... every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to... effectively

This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today.

The Open Graph Viz Platform
Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration pl ...

But let me suggest that gestalt is very much a pragmatic... data visualization, in fact a necessary aspect if you pl... simple bar and line charts (and perhaps even for those s... exploration of three of the most simple gestalt principl... they operat