A Good Chart is a Story [Charting Principles]
A good chart tells a story. Here is a fantastic example of what a good chart is. The chart itself is very simple and easy. But it brilliantly juxtaposes two interesting pieces of data : Obesity rates in countries and Time spent eating per day, to tell a story.
Web Analytics Dashboard by Percent Mobile is Fun [Dashboard Reviews]
Take a look at the web analytics dashboard from percent mobile. It is well executed and provides good quality information at a glance.
Hot or Not – McKinsey’s Innovation Heatmap
Take a look at the innovation heat map published by McKinsey and tell us what you think – Hot or Not?
A Good Bubble Chart About the Bust
Checkout this very neatly done “where did all the money go?” data visualization on Guardian, and share your opinion.
Professional Resume or Data Visualization Fail? [poll]
Michael Anderson, a web designer has posted this delicious looking visual resume. While the resume looks stunning at a glance, a closer inspection reveals that you cant really make any valuable conclusions about Michael’s past experience and qualifications. Of course if the purpose of this resume is to show that he is a fabulous designer, then the resume definitely achieved that.
What is your opinion on this type of resume data visualizations ?
Featured Visualizations – Jan 09
Check out user journeys and other cool visualizations in this weeks edition.
Featured Visualizations – Jan 02
Every week Pointy Haired Dilbert celebrates visualization and info-graphics by showcasing some of the creative and fun charting work from around the web. Have inspiration and fun. Browse hundreds of fun visualization and graphics projects in archives.
Newsmap is a creative and fun way to look at news. They organize news items on a tree map based on recency and relevancy of the news items (that are probably pulled from Google news). The background color indicates the news topic (red for world, purple for business, green for tech etc.)