Take a look at this superb interactive tool developed by The New York Times: A Peek into the Netflix Queue.
The principle is simple enough. The Times has taken a database of most rented movies from Netflix and overlapped it on ZIP codes on a Google map to create a geodemographic look at tastes and the [...]
On Sunday I wrote a small post about how UK company Prozone captures all English Premier League soccer matches on video and then uses that footage to create a database of every shot, pass, tackle and assist made by every player (according to a comment on that post Opta Sports are powering the Guardian Chalkboard [...]
According to an article in the New York Times today, UK supermarket chain Tesco is taking on the most daunting of statistical endeavors – predicting the British weather. “Rapidly changing weather can be a real challenge,” Jonathan Church, a Tesco spokesman, said in the article, describing the system Tesco has developed to predict the weather and [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new York Times’ award winning visualization of movie ticket sales. This is a similar graph displaying words that are included in Tweets about American Idol leading up to yesterday’s finale. The Neoformix folks put a nice little Twitter Streamgraph app online so you can make these graphs yourself about [...]
Colin’s post on 200 million faces showed a great data visualization example from the New York Times. We have gotten used to seeing great visualization work from the newspaper’s visualization team which is at the leading edge of this rapidly developing discipline. Two weeks ago this NYT visualization of box office receipts won best of [...]