Recently the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) released provider utilization and payment data. This is part of the government's ongoing push for transparency into medical services and costs. You may remember that last year they released h...
Something that often comes up is visualizing in 3 dimensions. I don't mean like 3dprinting. I mean more like heatmaps. With heatmaps, you can easily change two variables (the x and y dimensions) and see its impact on a third variable, usually denoted b...
TV attribution is one of the hardest problems to get right in all web analytics. To be clear, attribution is how marketers make sense out of their spend, so they know where to invest more or less in the future. Since attribution, for most companies, is...
Congress. Wait, before you lose your lunch, bear with me. This dysfunctional legislative body has been making headlines in the news recently. And when Congress is mentioned, rarely, if ever, is it of the positive persuasion. The shutdown, for example...
They work hard for their money. Or, maybe they just work for their money. Either way, members of Congress get paid. There are many ways to measure the amount of work congressional members do. One way is by looking at the number of Bill's they pass pe...
You might remember my post on Twitter mentions in New York Times articles from a few months back. I simply accessed the NYT API and plotted a graph showing the rise in mentions over the past few years. At the time, I used R's very popular plotting libr...
I recently began messing around with d3.js, which is a Javascript library that makes it possible to create lovely visualizations based on data. In fact, D3 stands for Data Driven Documents. More likely than not, many of the cool graphics and interacti...
I've wanted to create timeline maps with interactive googleVis Geomaps for a while. These would be a nice way to quickly show the spatial distribution of some data over time. It turns out that it's pretty easy to do with a plugin for Twitter Bootstra...
07 MAY 2012 BENJAMIN WIEDERKEHR TOOLS FLASH, JAVASCRIPT, PROCESSING, RA Carefully Selected List of Recommended ToolsWhen I meet with people and talk about our work, I get asked a lot what technology we use to create intera...
For many of my latest data blogs, I needed historical weather data to perform data mash-ups to pin-point the cause. For example, for my continued exploration into the airlines/airports historical data using SAP HANA and R, I wanted to find out wh...
