Visualization of the Week: Citeology
Citeology is an extraordinary project coordinated by Justin Matejka, a member of the research laboratory of modeling software Autodesk/AutoCAD. Citeology looks at the relationships between research...
View ArticleCreate a Christmas Tree Data Model in 30 Seconds
It's Seasons Greetings time again and our friends over at data visualization vendor Miner3D thought you would enjoy seeing the power of their new Miner3D ONE software on something Christmas related....
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: 2013 Year in Review
2013 was a pretty good year for data and visualizations. Visualization in particular continues to mature and focus more on the data first than on novel designs and magnitude of scope. Our friends over...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Groups of Death in the World Cup
When FIFA announced the final matchups for the 2014 World Cup, the selections brought tough news for U.S. soccer fans. Team USA was placed in a group with Germany, Portugal, and Ghana. Germany and...
View ArticleInformation Visualization
Information visualization is an increasingly important element of big data as it is the technology best able to convey the message emanating from the data. Here is a nice paper "Infovis and Statistical...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Viz Hall of Fame
Witness the Viz Hall of Fame thanks for our friends at Tableau Software. Featured are several cool visualizations submitted to the company by users of Tableau Public including: Nuclear Explosions Since...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Sentence Drawing
This week's top visualization is actually a new algorithmic technique for showing the aesthetic and organic beauty of language based on a very innovative use of R and the popular ggplot2 package.
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Predicting the Popularity of a Tweet
As social media becomes increasingly important as a data source for the purposes of machine learning, finding a brand new method for analyzing the Twitter microblogging platform is very compelling....
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Map-D: GPU-Powered Social Science Research in Real Time
"Map-D uses multiple NVIDIA GPUs to interactively query and visualize big data in real-time. Map-D is an SQL-enabled column store that generates 70-400X speedups over other in-memory databases. This...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Google Music Timeline
The Google Big Picture Group has a number of eye-catching big data visualizations based on on-going research projects at the search engine giant. One project, Music Timeline as shown below, shows how...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: World’s Largest Stadiums
With the Superbowl coming up this Sunday, Peter Gilks of Slalom Consulting in New York uses Tableau to create intriguing infographics like this one showing the size of stadiums around the world.
View ArticleetcML – Free Text-Analysis Tool
Have you every wondered whether a certain TV network has a specific political bias? Is your favorite news source fair and balanced? A group of Stanford computer scientists have created a website with...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Who Really Won the Superbowl?
For this week's top visualization, Nelson Davis of Slalom analyzes the advertising revenue generated by Super Bowl television commercials over the course of the game.
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Winter Olympics Dashboard
The 2014 Winter Olympics is going on in Sochi, Russia, and Paul Banoub of Viz Ninja has created this dashboard Tableau Public to let us explore the history of the games.
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Aging TV Network Audience
The Los Angeles Times ran a front page article today, "For prime time, aging boomers are next big thing" which highlight a distinct trend - broadcast network audiences are getting older.
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Oscars Dashboard
The Academy Awards event was held yesterday here in Los Angeles, and there are those technology diehards who tried to combine the creative arts with data science. For example, Adam McCann of Dueling...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Dialect Survey Maps
New tools for big data visualization are popping up all the time, but rarely do they attract such wide spread attention as the Dialect Survey Maps application which became the most-viewed story last...
View ArticleYellowfin 7 Analytics Platform for Enterprise-wide Data Discovery
Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, through its BI platform Yellowfin 7, offers a robust solution for ad-hoc analysis and data visualization for enterprise applications.
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Visualization of the Week: March Madness Analytics
Here is a great interactive visualization app that combines data analytics with March Madness - a match-up guide for the 2014 NCAA Basketball Tournament. Jay Lewis of 64 to 1 developed a Tableau app...
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The Zen of Visual Analysis
"Tableau Desktop is based on breakthrough technology from Stanford University that lets you drag & drop to analyze data. You can connect to data in a few clicks, then visualize and create...
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