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MOOC DataViz Showcase #4: Who’s Buying What ? (Andrei Ciobanu)
I continue to showcase some of the beautiful work done by students who attended Professor Cairo’s Introduction to Infographics and Visualization MOOC course in October 2013 that just completed. This...
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DataViz: 2014 Walt Disney World Crowd Calendar
From yourfirstvisit.net blog by Dave Shute. 2014 CROWDS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD Mr. Shute has provided his projections for Walt Disney World 2014 weekly crowds. Dates in it are the beginning of the week,...
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DataViz Cartoon: The Analytics of Failure
From Timo Elliott of SAP. Filed under: Analytics, DataViz Cartoon, Timo Elliott
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DataViz: 217 Years of Homicide in New York City
As of Dec. 29, 2013, the number of homicides recorded for New York City for 2013 stood at 332. It’s a drop of 20% below the homicide rate of 2012 (419 murders) and the first time in over half a...
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DataViz: What Your Favorite Drink Says About Your Politics
Graphic courtesy Jennifer Dube, National Media Research Planning and Placement LLC [Click on the image to enlarge] Former Mississippi governor and uber-Republican Haley Barbour loves bourbon. Franklin...
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WSJ DataViz: Hiring Slowdown Blurs Growth View
Dismal Jobs Report Raises Questions Over Economy’s Strength as Year Ended; Bad Weather a Factor? Source: Brenda Cronin and Jonathan House, The Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2014. The U.S. job gap...
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DataViz as Photography: Black & White Photos of New York City in 1910
Readers: I will be working in New York City this week. I came across these beautiful photos of 1910 New York City. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I will be posting New York City-related data...
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DataViz as Art: Burning Love on Valentine’s Day
Readers: I could not let Valentine’s Day pass without showing you this vintage Valentine’s Day card. Following today’s political correctness standards, this might be considered somewhat shocking. A...
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DataViz: Fresh Snowfall Pushes Detroit into Top Three Snowiest Winters of All...
Readers: So, when I left Detroit Monday evening, they had just reached their fourth snowiest winter of all recorded time. The Detroit Free Press newspaper had even included this infographic to show...
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DataViz as Music: Led Zeppelin’s ‘Black Dog’ Lyrics as a Flowchart
Source: Richard S. Chang and Josh Reitz, Led Zeppelin’s ‘Black Dog’ Lyrics as a Flowchart, redbull.com, January 31, 2014,...
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Dataviz for Retail: Recommendations for Designing a Hang Tag
Hang Tags I came across a blog entry written back in September 2013 by Igor Ovsyannykov, who describes himself as a geek, blogger, and designer. Mr. Ovsyannykov discusses how best to design a Hang Tag...
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DataViz: How Much Water Does it Take to Grow an Almond?
California, supplier of nearly half of all U.S. fruits, veggies, and nuts, is on track to experience the driest year in the past half millennium. Farms use about 80 percent of the state’s “developed...
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WSJ DataViz: Premium Economy – Why This Plane Seat is the Most Profitable
Airlines Charge Thousands Extra for a Few Inches of Legroom on Long Flights For most fliers, the ideal seat on a flight is usually in first or business class. However, for airlines, the sweet spot on...
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Dataviz as Maps: The First Map of Africa
Source: Josh Marshall, Artifacts #1: The First Map of Africa, talkingpointsmemo.com, March 7, 2014, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/artifacts-1-the-first-map-of-africa. I haven’t shown a map in a...
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DataViz as Architecture: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Reopens at Disneyland
Only at Disneyland would they tear down an old and dilapidated gold mining town in order to build a new and identical gold mining town and make it look old and dilapidated again. “The goal was to...
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DataViz as Maps: Thousands of Historic Maps Released by the New York Public...
The unique map of California, produced by the Southern Pacific Company in 1890. Click for more details The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division, New York Public Library (NYPL) has...
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Disney DataViz: 2015 Walt Disney World Crowd Calendar
Readers: I have decided to create a new data visualization blog post theme specifically for topics related to Disney. This new theme will be called Disney DataViz. To start off this theme, I could not...
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WSJ DataViz: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 – The Depth of the Problem
Readers: Like many of you, I have been watch in utter fascination as various countries help in the efforts to find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal posted this...
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DataViz Humor: Eleven Humorous Everyday Life Graphs We Can All Relate To by Wumo
Wumo, formerly Wulffmorgenthaler, is a webcomic and newspaper comic strip created by Danish writer/artist duo Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler. The name of the strip was a portmanteau created from...
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DataViz as Art: Epic Easter Eggs (USA Today Weekend)
Readers: As a young child, I loved to dye Easter Eggs. We tried to be as creative as possible and would try to make one half one color and the other half another color. Sometimes we would try to be...
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