tirsdag den 16. juni 2009

The Flowing Data guide to visualisations


Nøglen til forståelse er visualisering af data ... men overvej nøje hvordan ...
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Visualization is key ... but consider carefully what you unlock?
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Nathan Yau, the statistician beind data blog Flowing Data, presents his guide to what you can do with all those numbers

It seems like every week there's a new Web application that promises to harness the power of the masses and unlock the secrets within large datasets. Others aim to be the YouTube of data: a site that makes data fun and entertaining while starting conversations that would've otherwise never began.

This all sounds good on paper - tons of people analyzing the world's data - but there's still quite a ways to go before social data analysisbecomes useful to the data-oriented crowd and an even longer way to go before data goes mainstream, if it ever does. Let's take a look at what's available now. [...]

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Source: Flowing Data


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/15/google-ibm

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