Monday I wrote a post about a very annoying graph that keeps popping up in Keynote presentations. Edward Tufte invented the concept of Chart Junk. His most famous work – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information was published in 1983. It is probably the most important book ever written on data visualization. It made the [...]
I have been seeing a lot of presentations in Keynote recently. Now I don’t know how to use Keynote (or Macs for that matter – there’s a reason I write in the left column on this blog). But I do know how to detect chart junk and the popular Keynote bar chart pictured above is a [...]
Hats off to my Canadian colleagues have done a beautiful little film for the most recent Hellmann’s campaign. What a great way to make statistics come to life.
The movie can be found on the Canadian Eat Real, Eat Local site.
Here’s a very cool little app that allows you to search what is being mentioned on TV and trend the data over time. It is provided by SnapStream whose servers gather closed captioning data of TV content. Below you can see an example of how often “Obama” is mentioned over time.
Not surprisingly, the top 4 [...]
I am on vacation in Belgium this week to visit my family. Yesterday I took the train from Brussels to Antwerp, a commute I used to do daily when I worked in Brussels. I’d jump on in Antwerp and would usually have a seat. The 1st stop was Mechelen, where a big crowd would always [...]