50 Great Examples of Data Visualization Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter. Music, Movies and Other Media Narratives 2.0 visualizes music. Liveplasma is a music and movie visualization app that aims to help you discover other musicians or movies you might enjoy. Tuneglue is another music visualization service. MusicMap is similar to TuneGlue in its interface, but seems slightly more intuitive. Digg, Twitter, Delicious, and Flickr Internet Visualizations
5 misconceptions about visualization Last month, I had the pleasure of spending a week at the Census Bureau as a "visiting scholar." They're looking to boost their visualization efforts across all departments, and I put in my two cents on how to go about doing it. For being a place where there is so much data, the visual side of things is still in the early stages, generally speaking. During all the meetings, there were recurring themes about what visualization is and what it is used for. Some people really got it, but others were new to the subject, and we ran into a few misconceptions that I think are worth repeating. Here we go, in no particular order. Visualization is for making data flashy This is probably the most common one. Well, maybe. For example, I mapped the growth of Walmart a while back (It's amazing how much mileage I get out of this graphic.), and people seem to like it because of the organic growth pattern. For example, here's a map with the same style as my Walmart one, but it shows the spread of Target.
Online project maps militant groups STANFORD (US) —A new online mapping project clarifies the complex relationships among terrorist organizations around the world. What’s the difference between Hamas in Iraq, the Islamic Army in Iraq, and the Jihad and Reform Front? The three militant Islamist groups are based in Iraq, but they have different historical roots and leadership structures. And their goals and strategies do not necessarily align, say researchers at Stanford University. These differences highlight one of the biggest challenges to tackling terrorism: understanding the motivations, allegiances, shifting priorities, and organizational structures of the dozens of militant groups around the world. The project is developing a series of interactive diagrams that “map” relationships among groups and show how those relationships change over time. Groups with similar grievances and demographics sometimes merge with one another; other times they don’t. They are almost finished with Somalia. Mapping al-Qaeda
Five Big Database Breaches of 2011's Second Half FIDO Alliance technology will allow enterprises to replace passwords with plug-and-play multifactor authentication. By Phil Dunkelberger President & CEO, Nok Nok Labs, 3/26/2014 1 Comment | Read | Post a Comment News Hackers interrupt and deface sites of black-market forums selling credit card data stolen from Target and other retailers.By Mathew J. 4 comments | Read | Post a Comment Breaches create outliers. 1 Comment | Read | Post a Comment Commentary Is "browser-ized" security a better defense against hackers than traditional methods? 2 comments | Read | Post a Comment Proponents say the new specifications will pave the way for the replacement of passwords, which are frequently lost, stolen, or hacked.By Tim Wilson Editor in Chief, Dark Reading, 2/18/2014 0 comments | Read | Post a Comment Report suggests malware-laced email attack on Target's HVAC subcontractor leaked access credentials for retailer's network.By Mathew J. 12 comments | Read | Post a Comment 1 Comment | Read | Post a Comment
4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? Where are the best columns and content offerings? The solution on the horizon is curation. In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. 1. Storify co-founder Burt Herman worked as a reporter for the Associated Press during a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent. At the AP, editors sending messages to reporters asking them to do a story would regularly write, “Can u pls storify?” Storify is currently invite only. 2. 3. 4. Conclusion
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Data Visualization & Mapping What is Data Visualization? "A picture is worth a thousand words" "Information design makes complex information easier to understand and to use.” – AIGA from aiga.org "Information design is all about the psychology and physiology of how users access, learn, and remember information; the impact of colors shapes, and patterns, learning styles." – Luigi Canali De Rossi from "What is information Design?" "Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information." – Nathan Shedroff from nathan.com Who can use our solution? Journalists and bloggers Visualizations for articles To effectively communicate a message to their readers, lots of journals and magazines around the world (The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde…) use data journalism and data visualization. Available connectors XML / CSV / OLAP / Analytics / Zoho / Basecamp
Data, Data, Data: Thousands of Public Data Sources We love data, big and small and we are always on the lookout for interesting datasets. Over the last two years, the BigML team has compiled a long list of sources of data that anyone can use. It’s a great list for browsing, importing into our platform, creating new models and just exploring what can be done with different sets of data. In this post, we are sharing this list with you. Categories of data sources We grouped the links into some categories that bit.ly calls ‘Bundles’ to help you find what you are looking for and bundled the Bundles into a single Data Sources Bundle. Machine Learning Datasets Although many datasets can be used for machine learning tasks, the sources in this Bundle are specifically pre-processed for machine learning. Machine Learning Challenges Our next bundle of links contains links to Machine Learning Challenges. Marketplaces and data hubs There is an ever growing number of places where one can offer data, search data and download data. Open companies Like this:
Datavisualization NSA spying scandal fallout: Expect big impact in Europe and elsewhere (Updated) UPDATE: I’ll admit I am shocked to have received this response from the European Commission to my request for comment, with particular regard to the impact on EU citizens’ privacy: “We do not have any comments. This is an internal U.S. matter.” For the reason behind my surprise, read on… This is a great day to be a conspiracy theorist. Vindication! The companies themselves – Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and so on – have denied the existence of these backdoors , but the U.S. authorities have not. That last part appears to be nonsense, hence the uproar within the U.S., but let’s for a moment take the Obama administration at its word and pretend it’s not spying on its own citizens. Great timing And nowhere more so than in Europe, which is already in the throes of a wide-ranging debate over data privacy . Guess which side of this battle just got a boost? Unsafe Harbor? But what about the current EU data protection rules? Cloud impact But that’s just business. Goodbye moral high ground