Data visualization blogs
Is your local (U.S.) hospital more expensive than others? And how does its mortality rate stack up against others? Hospital Costs [kitware.com] developed by visualization and imaging company Kitware, contrasts statistics about hospital-specific char...
The interactive visualization Men's Eights 1980 - 2012 [feathersquare.com] by Feather and Square provides a complete overview of the "Oxford Summer Eight" bump race results. Individual teams can be selected to explore their historical performance be...
Reader Jack S. sent over this chart (link): The first problem readers encounter with this image is "What is MMI?" I like to think of any presentation as a set of tearout pages. Even if the image is part of...
The political visualization Words & Votes [sandyhookpromise.org], developed by digital agency R/GA for non-profit organization Sandy Hook Promise, provides a comprehensive look into the opinions of congressional representatives on the issue of gun vio...
Nick C. on Twitter sent us to the following chart of salaries in Major League Soccer. (link) This chart is hosted at Tableau, which is one of the modern visualization software suites. It appears to be a user submission. Alas,...
The movie shown below, developed by a real-time trading software developer Nanex, shows the stock trading activity in Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) as it occurred during a particular half a second on May 2, 2013. Each colored box represents one unique exch...
L.A. Street QualGrades [latimes.com], developed by the Los Angeles Times Data Desk, maps the pavement quality rating for each of the 68,000 street segments in L.A., the largest municipal system in the US with about 6,500 miles of paved roadway street...
The YouTube Trends Map [youtube.com] is a visualization of the most shared and viewed videos in various regions across the United States over the last 12 to 24 hours. It accompanies the more analytical Trends Dashboard to provide a full overview of th...
There is a tendency when producing dashboards to go for the cutesy-cutesy. Reader Daniel L. came across an attempt by Facebook to document its data center metrics (link). They chose this circular, spiraling design: Notice that the lines of equal...
