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In case you have not already noticed, I am a fan of XKCD. There are many reasons why, but one is the occasional graph. The one I am posting about today is a few days old, but I did not want you all to think I have forgotten about it. This one is on the [...] What is the healthiest state in the continental United States? Take a guess? Have something in mind? Great! What is it? When looking at some data obtained from The ReadWriteWeb and Tableau Public Challenge website on “Activity Rates and Healthy Living” it had some eye openers. When taking account several factors, it appears that overall [...] I have been playing with Tableau Public lately. Certainly a worthy addition to the Datageek arsenal. They were so kind as to supply some data to play with. This post concerns the Venture Capital Investments made in 2009. There are many ways to look at this information. As I was looking for trends and patterns in this data [...] Over the last couple of days I came across several websites that will track personal information and visualize it for you. I have not had the chance to check them all out for a proper review, but I wanted to get them out there if you have an interest. When I come up with a great [...] Is this a Meta-graph or just self-referential? This comes from the web comic xkcd which often has comics worthy of sharing! I wonder what Edward Tufte would think of this, I have read a few of his books, and I am not really [...] I came across this wonderful infographic today that outlines some of the arguments for and against Global warming. (click on it to see the whole thing.) I do not pick a side, but I can’t help thinking that even if humans are having little or no effect on global warming, the steps we are taking to [...] I love the comic xkcd It is a great geeky comic already, but then Randall Munroe occasionally comes up with some wonderful ways of looking at things. This one shows the interaction of characters from various movies.
You can see the original [...] I came across this site a while ago and have been holding on to it, occasionally checking things out and thinking that I may write something up and pretend that it was all my idea. But something got the better of me and decided that I will just let you know about this excellent collection Data [...] What states have the best SAT scores? What state has the largest Medial Household Income? You can use DataMasher to find out. If you think that there may be a correlation, then you can see that too. I played with this for a while, and it has promise, but for now it is more of a novelty. [...] Do you use Excel to manipulate of visualize data? Then her is a blog that you may find interesting: Contextures Blog. I heard about it a couple of days ago, I think it was from the Tableau blog. This blog shows you all sorts of tips and tricks using Excel. Some of which require some VBA [...] |
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