(Defunct) Google Motion Charts My first thought (aside from being amazed) when seeing Gapminder in action was that this application allows for data to be visualized so much more efficiently and concisely! By utilizing the “fourth dimension” of time through… Continue Reading
Students and scholars at Rice University created a site that showcased a few digital history methods that used a sample data set of nineteenth-century runaway slave ads. Below is one of their data visualization with Mapping Points: Using Palladio and… Continue Reading
It’s an all too familiar story: “Oh! You know Bobby? My cousin’s friend’s sister’s niece’s roommate’s brother is on the same baseball team as him!” Academics are guilty of this too, Mathematicians like to quantify their Erdős Number as a… Continue Reading
In Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere, Kieran Healy gives a very clear and insightful look into networks and the ways they can be used to glean important information. Healy shows that the same network data can be used in… Continue Reading
This map, created by Charles Minard to represent Napolean’s Russian Campaign of 1812, is a great example how thinking outside of the standard, prescribed-chart box can relate lots of complex data in a simple visual. Perhaps the most striking feature,… Continue Reading
