Visualization

More on economic interrelationships

July 11, 2011 Economics

Graphic from NPR shows why Europe’s Crisis Matter for the US.

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More sports data

June 24, 2011 Data

I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis and still love Moneyball. Some years back I wrote an op-ed for the NY Post (no longer online) that said, that we need some Billy Beane’s in Medicaid. Beane is the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Using sports data is a great means to get through to […]

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NYT on the end of OBL and using all the data

May 17, 2011 Information

Delayed reaction here, but they did a nice job so I’ll post anyway. The New York Times received lots of reactions to the the killing of Osama Bin Laden and here’s how they displayed it. Note that all the structured data are quite visible so that that the viewer can see both concentrations and variability. […]

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Use ALL the Damn Data

March 30, 2011 Economics

Follow the trail here. It’s only barely polite, if that. But the issues are important. The issues are what should our economic policy be and the honesty in data analysis. John Taylor is a professor of Economics at Stanford. In mid-January, he posted an analysis, Higher Investment Best Way to Reduce Unemployment, Recent Experience Shows […]

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Visualized Budget Data for the UK

March 23, 2011 Budget

Even a cursory view suggests to me that the Guardian has been making extra efforts at using data and visualized data at that in their reporting. You’ll find them particularly at their Datablog. Here’s their story on five key data sets in the latest budget. One graphic in particular stood out for me and that […]

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County Spending Animated

March 22, 2011 Expenditures

Per capita expenditures animated by county (excluding the five counties of New York City). (Flash required.)NYS County Expend per Capita 1998-2009.swf. Experiment with the scales, speed and labeling.

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Visualizing Concentration of Historical Events

March 21, 2011 Geography

Gareth Lloyd, a software engineer at the BBC and Tom Martin pulled Wikipedia events that have geographical coordinates and did a neat, animated, historical visualization. Using Google Fusion and Maps, they also did a heat map. Lloyd and Martin did this for History Hackday. Is it biased? Sure, by whatever biases have accumulated in Wikipedia, […]

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