Jack Hagley is a London based Graphic Designer specialising in... - Jack Hagley // Graphic Design // Infographics Jack Hagley is a London based Graphic Designer specialising in Infographics Specialist in infographic design and data visualisation. I also do iconography, illustration, branding, art direction and various other graphic design projects. Tell me about your project My work has been in The Times, the Guardian and Wired and I've been lucky enough to work under David McCandless at Information is Beautiful. Loves: Challenges, clarity, learning, deadlines. Get the most up-to-date version of my Infographic CV here. No Flash. PinterestTumblrTwitterExperimental Stuff
38 Tools For Beautiful Data Visualisations | DBi As we enter the Big Data era, it becomes more important to properly expand our capacity to process information for analysis and communication purposes. In a business context, this is evident as good visualisation techniques can support statistical treatment of data, or even become an analysis technique. But also, can be used as a communication tool to report insights that inform decisions. Today there are plenty of tools out there that can be used to improve your data visualisation efforts at every level. Javascript Libraries Circular Hierarchy – D3.js Python Libraries Kartograph.py – Mapsigraph – Node-link, treesMatplotlib – Most types of statistical plotsPycha – Pie chart, bar chart, area chartNetworkX – Node-link Java / PHP Prefuse – Area chart, Time series, node-link, tree, timeline, steam graph, radial hierarchyJpGraph – Line plot, scatter plot, bar chart, bubble chart, contours chart, field chart, splines, pie chart, boxplot, polar plot, radial chart, maps Web Applications
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Gephi makes graphs handly A New Visualization Method Makes Research More Organized and Efficient DiscoveryA New Visualization Method Makes Research More Organized and Efficient The Action Science Explorer (ASE) helps reveal emerging trends and controversies and encourages collaborations within the research community December 7, 2011 The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Action Science Explorer (ASE) allows users to simultaneously search through thousands of academic papers, using a visualization method that determines how papers are connected, for instance, by topic, date, authors, etc. The goal is to use these connections to identify emerging scientific trends and advances. "We are creating an early warning system for scientific breakthroughs," said Ben Shneiderman, a professor at the University of Maryland (UM) and founding director of the UM Human-Computer Interaction Lab. ASE is not itself a product, but rather "a scientific research study that shows some potent new features that could be added to bibliographic systems to support more powerful functions," said Shneiderman.
Roambi - Beautiful Mobile Data Visualization Apps Big Data Startup Roambi offers interactive mobile visualizations Roambi is a big data startup that completely focuses on mobile visualizations and they understand that practice pretty well. They have created an analytics tool that is easy to use and straightforward to install and users can import any type of data. Many companies see the importance of mobile visualizations and customers from Roambi come from many different industries as well as from Global Fortune 500 companies to SME’s. They store the data locally in order to ensure that also without coverage users can have access to the data. In addition they have developed Roambi Business that brings all the analytics to organizations from any size. Their Roambi Analytics tool and Business Suite is a great visualization tool for big data, but they have built another tool that is definitely worth mentioning. Roambi is capable of transforming data into stunning interactive visualizations that have the possibility to change the way we do business.
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