39 articles in this selection
| 2010/11/10 Visualizing Customer Profitability in QlikView with a Whale Curve
Describes how to create a whale curve in QlikView. In a whale curve, customers are ranked by profitability, from highest to lowest, on the X-axis while their accumulated profit is plotted on the Y-axis. The curve that results can, with some imagination, be said to look like a whale coming out of the water...
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| 2009/12/02 9 Ways to Visualize Proportions
With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your decision easier for one particular type of data: proportions.
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| 2009/09/25 PTS Blog
I've put together an extensive web site (http://peltiertech.com), which has an emphasis on working with Excel charts. Many of the tutorials and examples are techniques for achieving charting effects that, at first glance, seem impossible. I am active in Microsoft's newsgroups and in other online forums, such as Mr. Excel. I can be reached at jonxlmvp@peltiertech.com...
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| 2009/08/18 Death to business charts!
Obese visualizations are bad, but anorexic content is even worse. Lean-looking reports that are packed with information are ideal. All you need is a sharp scalpel and…the death of the business chart. Finally!
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| 2009/08/08 50+ Essential Techniques and Tools for Visualizing your Data
Charts and Graphs are ideal to visualize data in order to quickly give your readers an understanding of the nature of a given problem or recent developments. Whatever type of data presentation you prefer or suits you data (pie charts, bubble charts, bar graphs, network diagrams etc.), there are many different options but how do you get started and what is technologically possible? In this article tripwire magazine present more than 50 Essential Techniques and Tools for Visualizing your data on a website....
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| 2009/07/31 Axiis - An Introduction and Tutorial
This purpose of this article is to introduce developers and data visualization specialists to Axiis, which is an open source data visualization project based on Adobe Flex and Actionscript 3. While you do not have to be an expert in Flex Builder or ActionScript 3, having experience in both will make understanding this tutorial easier. Throughout the article I will assume you are comfortable with the fundamentals of building an application with Flex, and understand some of the primary language constructs embodied within ActionScript 3 and the Flex SDK, primarily MXML and Binding....
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| 2009/07/22 Visualizing Meaning
All 1,943 Cornell Faculty were asked to respond to the following question: "Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and 'other') you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable?" On the archival paper provided, they were asked to create a copy of the chart and in the remaining space annotate notable attribute of the data and the image, describe what they remembered about first seeing this image and comment on why they chose this image....
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| 2009/07/21 Burn Down Charts in Excel
Gantt charts are very good to understand a project progress and status. But they are heavy on planning side. They give little insight in to what is happening. A burn down chart on the other hand is good for understanding the project progress and how deliverables are coming along....
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| 2009/07/20 Horizon Graph - Time Series Information Visualization
Horizon Graphs are a fantastic way to overview a large number of time series in a limited rectangular space. Since this information visualization packs the information in a line graph in 1/6th the space through a smart pre-attentive color encoding, it allows for an overview of a large number of time series. Users can scan huge amounts of data points across all relevant time series and immediately identify areas of concern that require closer scrutiny....
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| 2009/07/20 Microsoft Treemapper with Excel Add-In
Treemapper is an Excel Add-In that allows an Excel user to quickly and easily generate a treemap visualization of any hierarchical data in Excel, or from a CSV or XML file. Treemapper is based on the Data Visualization Components also available from this group....
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| 2009/06/29 Open Flash Chart version 2
Open Flash Chart 1.x was great and it works like a dream. But I made some little mistakes which over time grew and anyoyed me and made the source code weird. So I decided it was time to re-jigger the code and make it pretty again. The big change is moving the data format to JSON. This has made a big difference and has allowed some pretty cool new features....
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| 2009/06/25 Protovis
Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. It takes a graphical approach to data visualization, composing custom views of data with simple graphical primitives like bars and dots.
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| 2009/06/25 Simpler Data Visualization
Researchers at Stanford are offering a suite of tools called Protovis that streamline the process of building data visualizations. The tools still require knowledge of programming but are designed to be easier to implement for someone without programming experience, says creator Jeff Heer, a professor of computer science at Stanford....
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| 2009/06/25 amCharts: flash charts, stock charting software
AmCharts is a set of Flash charts for your websites and Web-based products. AmCharts can extract data from simple CSV or XML files, or they can read dynamic data generated with PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby on Rails, Perl, ColdFusion, and many other programming languages....
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| 2009/06/16 Lightweight data exploration in Excel
We often are given a chunk of data in Excel that we need to explore. Of course, the first tool you should pull out of your toolbox in cases like this is the trusty PivotTable (it slices, it dices!). But at times we have to dig a little deeper into the toolbox and pull out the in-cell bar chart....
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| 2009/06/16 Sparklines for Excel
A set of free User Defined Functions for Excel to create Sparklines : the simple, intense, word-sized graphics invented by Edward Tufte.
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| 2009/06/16 How to Present Market Share Changes between Two Years - 14 Excel Charting Alternatives
Almost 2 months ago our reader Jennifer sent me an email asking if there is an effective way to present market share changes between two periods for 2 products among five competitors. I have replied her promptly with whatever I could think of as better ways to present the data. But I also posted a visualization challenge: How to show market share changes?...
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| 2009/06/11 Axiis : Data Visualization Framework
Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike. Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you. Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations....
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| 2008/04/29 Sparkline PHP Graphing Library
We aim to increase the adoption of sparklines on the web by providing a high-quality PHP sparkline library with the following properties: Flexible, Elegant, Free.
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| 2008/02/28 How to create a Dashboard in Excel | Charts
This is a series of posts where I’ll discuss the design of Excel dashboards. I’m starting by how to do it (you can also find 10 tips to improve your Excel dashboard or reviews like this; I’ll keep adding more stuff to this series).
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| 2008/01/07 Google Analytics
Google Analytics helps you find out what keywords attract your most desirable prospects, what advertising copy pulled the most responses, and what landing pages and content make the most money for you.
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| 2008/01/07 Information Aesthetics - data visualization & visual design
This weblog is based on the assertion that information visualization can be enriched with the principles of creative design and art, to develop valuable data representations that address the emotional experience of users, instead of solely focusing on typ...
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| 2008/01/07 Perceptual Edge
Perceptual Edge focuses on the tools and techniques of visual business intelligence to help you make better use of your valuable information assets.
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| 2008/01/06 Chart Chooser
Chart Chooser helps you select the right chart for your data.
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| 2008/01/05 Many Eyes Data Visualization
Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely expla...
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