http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:10:22 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/legal-research#post-2344 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:21:04 +0000 fraziern 2344@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi forum:</p> <p>I've been working with Processing on some legal research and thought I'd share. I haven't seen much in the way of law-related visualizations here, so this might be new subject matter. Please take a look and let me know what you think, if you like. Thanks!</p> <p><a href="http://nickfrazier.com/14/small-claims-a-different-view/" rel="nofollow">http://nickfrazier.com/14/small-claims-a-different-view/</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/looking-for-multi-variable-time-series-data#post-1441 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:03:44 +0000 antikraft 1441@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I am trying to find multi-variable time-series data for a visualization project. Ideally, the dataset will have &gt; 10 variables, and for each &gt; 100 observations. </p> <p>Ideas? </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/advice-for-some-time-series-data-visualization#post-1420 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:39:38 +0000 kerimcan 1420@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi, I looked for advice or example of a visualization I have in mind but couldn't find any. Below is a description. I know R.</p> <p>I have data on peacekeeping operations and civil wars since 1985. "Peacekeeping operations" (PKO) variable takes on 4 values: No operation, UN operation, non-UN operation, mixed operation. I know the value of this variable for each country and each year. I want to show, for the countries that had at least one civil war (around 40 countries), the values of the PKO variable. </p> <p>I imagine a graph where countries are on the y-axis and years are on the x-axis. Each country has a horizontal strip and the strip can each year take a different color depending on the value of the PKO variable (white if "no op", blue if "UN op", yellow if "non-UN op", green if "mixed op"). </p> <p>Could you tell me the name of such graphs and do you know if I can do this in R? </p> <p>Thanks for your help. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/mapping-h1n1-virus-pattern-of-spread-over-time#post-789 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:06:55 +0000 tomhobson 789@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi,<br /> My first-time visiting this forum. Looking forward to getting some feedback and advice from interested members. My work involves providing thematic mapping services to a range of agencies here in Ireland. As a side interest I am trying to develop effective means of communicating the unfolding of events (environmental, economic, political etc.)over space and time.<br /> Here are two efforts to communicate the rate and pattern of spread of H1N1 swine flu virus cases based on public-domain data.<br /> The maps are simple dot distributiion thematics generated from Mapinfo files. I call them Mapblogs.</p> <p>They are posted on Youtube with the following titles:</p> <p>Swine flu (H1N1): spread in mainland US - the first month<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d3nPS2voH0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d3nPS2voH0</a></p> <p>H1N1 09, Australia: Flu virus - time-series map of spread of cases to June 17 '09<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xtr1a9uIC0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xtr1a9uIC0</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/why-people-like-streamgraphs-so-much#post-176 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:12:28 +0000 nathany 176@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I've been trying to figure out why exactly the streamgraph was such a big hit to the mass audience. The <a href="http://www.leebyron.com/else/streamgraph/" rel="nofollow">Byron/Wattenberg paper</a> puts it pretty clearly (and was a pretty interesting read). It pretty much came down to a visualization that didn't look statistical. Streamgraphs have an organic feel to them, and it drew people in - like the data had life.</p> <p>That's what excites me most about data visualization - the blend of statistics and design. Statistics is really good at finding interesting things in data and design is really good at evoking emotion. Put the two together, and you've got some excellent viz. I just wish there was more blending going on. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/deconrecon-showing-suicide-rates-in-japan#post-45 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:56:56 +0000 nathany 45@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Can you improve this graphic showing suicide rates and unemployment rates in Japan?</p> <p><a href="http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/28847825" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://projects.flowingdata.com/images/0730suicide-epidemic.png" /></a></p> <p>There are quite a few things that we can do to represent this data a little better. For starters, something needs to be done with those labels. What else? What is the graph trying to show? Does it succeed?</p> <p>Unemployment data is from the <a href="http://titania.sourceoecd.org/vl=5522357/cl=13/nw=1/rpsv/fact2007/" rel="nofollow">OECD Factbook 2007</a> and the suicide rates are from the <a href="http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/country_reports/en/" rel="nofollow">World Health Organization</a>. For your convenience, here are suicide rates and unemployment rates by year in <strong><a href="http://datasets.flowingdata.com/japan-suicides/rates.xls" rel="nofollow">one spreadsheet</a></strong>. I've included population just in case. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/social-data-analysis-for-minnesota-employment#post-15 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:17:17 +0000 nathany 15@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>This is an interesting piece from Jeff Heer, whose probably best known for his work with Flare/Prefuse and Many Eyes.</p> <p><a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2008/07/16_minnesota_slowdown/" rel="nofollow">http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2008/07/16_minnesota_slowdown/</a></p> <p>Things are a little small and close together, especially the text. How to interact wasn't immediately clear, but once I realized you could double click on industries to get further breakdowns as well as highlight different industries by holding down shift, then it got a bit more interesting.</p> <p>I dunno. Mixed feelings about this one.</p> <p><img src="http://projects.flowingdata.com/images/minesotta.png" /> </p>