This is possibly not the greatest way to visualise data (in this case US House Prices adjusted for inflation) but it is a somewhat visceral method, where you feel every drop!
The last few years were a long steady climb but in the US, house prices have plummeted over the last few months. The video stops before this happens but it’s obvious that the continual climbing has plateaud out just before the end. This was made using Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, one of my favourite games.
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This is run by IBM, part of one of their research groups. It lets anyone upload data sets on anything at all and then display it using one of a number of visualisation methods such as statistical charts, maps, word trees or even tags. It’s completely free and anyone can use it. Nice looking website as well with tutorials on how to upload, and a blog.
The chart shown took 2005 data for the money earmarked by Federal Govt per state on a per capita basis. I.e. I’d guess it’s the total spent on each state divided by the number of inhabitants. Alaska came out well!
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Foreign Policy is a long published magazine that looks at all aspects the world with emphasis on Global Politics, economics etc. It’s also well known for publishing it’s annual Failed States and has just published the 2007 copy of that.
Of interest to Portent though is its visualisation of unsafe sex chart which shows major countries and first age, and numbers of partners with India bottom left as the lowest number and surprisingly Norway as the highest. The data came from a Durex global survey of 317,000 participants in 41 countries. Interesting stuff.
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This is an article that compares the monthly lists of the 100 most visited Wikipedia pages for the period of September 2006 to January 2007.
A software package called searchCrystal is used to visualize the overlap between the five monthly Top 100 lists to show which pages are highly visited in all five months; which pages in four of the five months and so on. Almost 40 percent of a month’s top 100 pages are visited in all five months, with 25 percent highly visited only in a single month.
I’m into visualsations- part of me is fascinated by the way extra insights can be gained just by viewing figures in different ways. This shows the data in three different ways- you may find the writing a little “dusty” that’s academics for you! But the three graphics are interesting.
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If you travel a lot round the world then you are probably more than old enough to drink in countries where drink is permitted! But it’s still interesting to see. And 25 for a drink in India? Well I suppose that stops students having a drink!
I’ve always thought it odd, in fact stupid that in the USA you can get married young, fight in the armed forces (average age in Vietnam was 19) yet not have a drink legally until you’re 21. Where is the sense in that?
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Craigslist.org is a very well known free listings website. The linked site took student rentals data from craigslist and has plotted a heat map using Google maps to show which areas are the busiest. You can also see average rent per room
The dataset is over 120,000 points and there are some charts showing off some of it’s characteristics. If you have Firefox you can also see the average number of listings on a block by block basis- that’s quite a nifty overlay. (Shown below)
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Rob of cockeyed.com (a website I seem to recall has been featured before) is compiling a matrix of photos of people’s height and weight. Are you brave enough to appear there?
As he says “Everyone is welcome, from 4′11″ (150cm) to 6′6″ (198 cm) and from 90 lbs. (41Kg) to 260 lbs. (118Kg) and beyond!”. So if you have a photo, send it in!
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