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Pushbutton Infographics
There's been a recent flurry of new offerings in the world of on-line tools for creating and publishing infographics, so I thought I'd provide a brief overview of the main protagonists. Some are new...
View ArticleBrownlow Medallists Visualization Updated: Jobe Watson
Congratulations Jobe Watson, winner of the 2012 Brownlow Medal.I've updated my Brownlow Medallists visualization to reflect this "new data" including the playing histories of previous years'...
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Summer Olympics: Home Ground Advantage
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games have come and gone, and congratulations to Great Britain for hosting the event so magnificently and for the outstanding performance of Team GB.This reminded me of how well...
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Comparison of Australian Car Values
I was recently in the market for new wheels, and so spending a bit of time researching the Australian car market at carsales.com.au and RedBook.com.au. It got me thinking about the rates of...
View ArticleCoursera Data Analysis MOOC: First Impressions
On the spur of the moment I decided to enrol in Coursera's Data Analysis course. I've been curious about MOOCs (massive open on-line courses) for some time, so when I came across this one, I decided it...
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Lines vs. Bars for Categorical Data
I recently commented on a thread started by Joey Cherdarchuk in the LinkedIn Data Visualization group. The thread discusses Joey's reworking of an infographic about social media demographics. Joey used...
View ArticleCoursera Data Analysis MOOC: Half-Time Entertainment
It's week five of the Coursera Data Analysis MOOC, and it's been a busy time since the course commenced (see my first impressions). I've just completed the weekly quiz so have time to come up for air...
View ArticleCoursera Data Analysis MOOC: Graduation
I've completed Coursera's 2013 Data Analysis course. You can read my earlier posts on the course here and here.I was initially motivated to enrol so I could learn about Massive Open Online Courses...
View ArticleCoursera Data Analysis MOOC: Wrap-Up
The Coursera Data Analysis MOOC has concluded. You can read my earlier posts on the course (first impressions, half-time, graduation).If you're interested in the course content then it's been made...
View ArticleMobile Visualization
One of my favourite podcasts is Data Stories. Who'd have thought a purely audio presentation of a visual subject would work? But it does, mostly due to its two charming hosts: Moritz Stefaner and...
View ArticleOver the Rainbow
About a year ago Visual.ly posted on their blog an open letter to NASA asking them to avoid using the rainbow (spectral) colour scale for representing continuous data. The letter listed five problems...
View ArticleReview: Infoactive (beta)
Infoactive is an on-line tool for creating infographics, and is similar to Infogram, Easel.ly and Venngage - see my earlier review of these offerings.Infoactive garnered considerable attention from the...
View ArticleStatistics Done Wrong - Alex Reinhart
I've just finished reading Alex Reinhart's excellent Statistics Done Wrong; a guided tour of common statistical fallacies and misconceptions. It covers p-values, statistical power, statistical...
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Lyra: the Interactive Visualization Design Environment
I recently spent some time using Lyra an "interactive visualization design environment" that allows you to create visualizations without writing a single line of code. It's being developed by Arvind...
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A Distorted and Incomplete Picture
When I saw Ben Goldacre's latest book Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients on the new releases bookshelf of my local library, I borrowed it immediately. Not because I...
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Australian Federal Budget 2014/15: Changes to Public Service Staffing Levels...
A friend recently drew my attention to Ausviz, a site focussed on visualizations of Australian data, particularly data sets from data.gov.au. One of the first Ausviz visualizations I looked at uses a...
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The Simpsons Social Network (Season 1)
I've been a fan of The Simpsons ever since Season #1 was first broadcast. So, I was recently thinking about visualizing the social network (no, not this one) of Simpsons characters.Constructing the...
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Visualizing how my personal tax was spent
I received my tax assessment yesterday. On the last page was the bar chart shown below, which visualizes where my "personal tax was spent, based on 2014-15 Budget estimates" (according to the caption)....
View ArticleStephen King Screen Adaptations (Plotly)
Stephen King is a prolific author, whose books I've enjoyed reading since I was a teenager. His prodigious written output has spawned many screen adaptations for film and television, but in many cases...
View ArticleStacey Barr: The First Three Steps To Get KPI Buy-In
Last week I attended a webinar by Stacey Barr to launch her new book Practical Performance Measurement, which describes Stacey's PuMP Blueprint for developing performance measurement processes.The...
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Cartograms of the Periodic Table of Elements
I recently came across a couple of examples of cartograms of Mendeleev's periodic table of elements. Before sharing them let's travel back in time to the 1970s to see WF Sheehan's cartogram (shown...
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Triple-J Hottest 100 Artists 1993 – 2014
Triple-J's Hottest 100 is an annual music poll conducted by the ABC's youth radio station JJJ. The poll counts votes for listeners' favourite songs of the previous year, and has been run (in its...
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When Is Easter Sunday?
Easter Sunday is the Sunday following the first full moon after March 21. A few years ago I published this histogram of Easter Sunday dates. A friend then asked whether it was possible to visualize...
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The Simpsons Social Networks: Seasons #1 - #26
Back in 2014 I used Gephi to layout a graph of co-appearances of characters in Season #1 of The Simpsons. I've now repeated that effort for Seasons #1 through #26.To recap, the graphs visualize the...
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Interactively ranking AFL teams by their player lists
It's been a while...I recently completed an interactive chart of AFL teams and the aggregated statistics for their player lists - see the image below or the interactive version.Click on the Age, Games,...
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