SubscribeCool infographics around the web – [july 31]
Time for another round of cool charting / info-graphic ideas around the web.
Most Popular Baby Names – all the way from 1880
Nametrends is a cool website totally dedicated to analyzing and showing baby name trends. They have pretty interesting stuff like, how baby names ending with -lie (charlie, willie, ellie etc.) fared from 1880. Go ahead, see the neat stuff at nametrends. [via kottke]
Flare toolkit for visualizing in Flash
Flare is a powerful tool for visualizing large amounts of data using Action Script. Check it out. [via FlowingData]
Funny map of online communities
This cartoonish visualization from XKCD pokes fun at the sizes and boundaries of various online communities. Really hilarious and neatly done. [via cool infographics]
This is a non-linear info graphic that talks about how designers approach problems. The site >think>draw>make is a dedicated to visualizations of design processes. See it. [via cool infographics]
What info is hidden in a bar code?
This pretty visualization of bar codes uses information contained in the black stripes to generate Bezier curves (ahem!) that look like a tree, hence the name bar-code plantation 
[via swissmiss]
Also see:
- Excel Links around the web – [July 29]
- Excel Links Around the Web [July 22]
- Cool Infographics / Charts of the Week [July 24]
Have any visualizations, graphs or cool charting ideas and want them featured here? Drop a comment.
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