In a post about the Wolfram Alpha last week I wrote about how serach engines have spent most of their efforts on finding the information rather than displaying it. Information Aesthetics had an interesting post on spezify.com. It takes visualization of search results to a whole new level. I love how it organizes posts, tweets, Wikipedia entries etc 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 [...]
Monday I posted a link to Hans Rosling’s video on the News/Death ratio. Hans Rosling founded the Gapminder foundation in 2005. According to the foundation’s website his mission was to “To promote sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, [...]
Here’s a great little video by the always entertaining Prof. Hans Rosling where he uses his Gapminder software to demonstrate the disproportionate coverage of the Swine Flu in the media compared to other diseases such as TB.
The New York Times created an interactive map that shows where the outbreaks of the Swine Flue are located.
These types of epidemiological maps have been around for a while. In fact, they were the very first examples of geographic representations of data. Probably the most famous example is John Snow’s map of the 1854 Cholera outbreak in [...]