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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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| 2009/07/27 Why MapReduce matters to SQL data warehousing
Greenplum and Aster Data have both just announced the integration of MapReduce into their SQL MPP data warehouse products. So why do I think this could be a big deal? The short answer is "Because MapReduce offers dramatic performance gains in analytic application areas that still need great performance speed-up." Read on for the long answer....
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| 2009/07/22 visualcomplexity.com - A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field....
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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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| 2009/07/20 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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| 2009/07/08 Visualizing large graphs: graph drawing of matrices in the University of Florida Collection
Graph visualization is a way to discover and visualize structures in complex relations. What sort of structures are people who do large scale computation studying? We can get a glimpse by visualizing the thousands of sparse matrices submitted to the University of Florida Sparse Matrix collection. The resulting gallery contains the drawing of graphs as represented by 2218 sparse matrices in this collection...
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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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| 2009/06/19 Graphviz
Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many important applications in software engineering, database and web design, networking, and in visual interfaces for many other domains. Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. It has several main graph layout programs. See the gallery for some sample layouts. It also has web and interactive graphical interfaces, and auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings....
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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 Echelon » Visualization of Social Network
What I did is write a program that is able to log in to a very popular German Social Networking website and grab some data from it. I grabbed the friends of my profile (only 2) their friends (about 100) and the friends of their friends (about 5000). I use...
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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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