Color Survey Results Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. —Herman Melville, Billy Budd Orange, red? I don’t know what to believe anymore! I WILL EAT YOUR HEART WITH A FUCKING SPOON IF YOU AKS ANY MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT COLORS —Anonymous, Color Survey Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey. First, a few basic discoveries: If you ask people to name colors long enough, they go totally crazy. Overall, the results were really cool and a lot of fun to analyze. Sex By a strange coincidence, the same night I first made the color survey public, the webcomic Doghouse Diaries put up this comic (which I altered slightly to fit in this blog, click for original): Basically, women were slightly more liberal with the modifiers, but otherwise they generally agreed (and some of the differences may be sampling noise).
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Three Ways to Tell Stories with Data Parallel Sets Parallel Sets (ParSets) is a visualization application for categorical data, like census and survey data, inventory, and many other kinds of data that can be summed up in a cross-tabulation. ParSets provide a simple, interactive way to explore and analyze such data. Even though the screenshots here show the Mac version, the program also runs on Windows and Linux. Basic Operation To open an existing dataset, select it in the list and either double-click it or click the Open button. The horizontal bars in the visualization show the absolute frequency of how often each category occurred: in this example, the top line shows the distribution between the passenger classes on the Titanic and the crew. The middle dimension shows a male to female ratio of almost 4 to 1. Between the dimension bars are ribbons that connect categories and split up. Interaction Move your mouse over the display to see the tooltip telling you more about the data. Downloading Online Data Sets Importing Your Own Data
Remixing Data Visualization, by Alessio Macrì [This is a guest post by Alessio Macrì*, about the infographic he created as part of the "Remixing data visualization" workshop, at Resonate 2014, in Belgrade. The visualization compares the sovereign debt exposure of sixty-one European banks to the twenty-nine nations of the old continent.] Last April, I attended an information design workshop at Resonate 2014. Resonate is an aggregator of brilliant names related to media art, programming, technology, data visualization, visual and interaction design. It brings together the best experts from all over the world. It’s a small dip in future technologies related to art and culture. image via In this context, I had the opportunity to participate at the workshop held by Accurat – Information Design, a studio based in Milan and New York that deals with static data visualization (for printing) and interactive visualization (cross-platform). (image: an infographic by Accurat) Infographic legend
Tools - Cool Infographics Adioma creates information graphics out of your textual data, using timelines, grids and icons. Create impressive charts from spreadsheets. Assemble into dashboards, embed in websites, or simply share a link. A Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation Cacoo is a free online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site map, flowchart, mind map, wire frame, UML diagram and network diagram. Cone Action Spectra Human Cone Action Spectra In most vertebrates that have what humans term “color vision”, there appear to be three classes of cones, based on their absorption spectra. Although many fundamental aspects of color vision remain to be worked out, the chemistry of the cones’ visual pigments is pretty much the same as in the rods. A photon is absorbed by a cis-11-retinal, converting it to the trans- configuration and initiating the phototransduction process. One of the most important differences between cones and rods is in the amino acid sequence of the opsin component of the rhodopsin molecule. You can see that in spite of their names (“Red”, “Green”, and “Blue”), each class of cone shows an absorption, or action, spectrum that extends over a range of wavelengths, with the result being considerable overlap in the three action spectra.
BETA): Build a diagram <svg id="sankey_svg" height="600" width="600" xmlns=" version="1.1"><title>Your Diagram Title</title><! Copy the code above to embed your diagram. Save it in a “.svg” file to edit it in another application. Every Flow will have a tooltip when hovering. hakimel/reveal.js amazon The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization 5 Rules For Making Graphs I went with the idea that I'm writing this for a kinja audience who all knows the views/uniques shorthands That makes sense for this audience. I mention it because I tend to be much more cautious with explainers I put online because they are available to a much wider audience than one necessarily intends. The x-axis labels are already in a format that's typically used for dates and it's a lineplot, and Summer is in the title. Like this is something that people will pick up. Ha, you say that, but when I first looked at the chart, my brain was like, hmm, I wonder what all those fractions are for? Sorry was getting sloppy here 'cause I'd just plotted the exact same data as a line plot and bar graph and so I figured people would infer from context Oh, yeah, I get that, and it definitely made sense following the rest of the post.