Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Incredible things with data

Julie shared this over email (preposterous)... 

Check out Hans Rosling. He is making it easy to understand complex data by making it visual and using it to tell a story.

What can we do like this?

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  2. Interesting video, although the log scale makes the real-time "movement" of data points along the income axis deceiving unless you are really paying attention to the scale.

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  3. To be more constructive: we could present any data set with 3 or more variables in this manner. To make up an example... number of fast food establishments would be the x-axis, obesity rates would be the y-axis, each data point would represent a given county in WI, with the size of the point reflecting the counties population. We could then "Move" this data set over time (like from 1950-2010) -- it would probably be more interesting to replace WI counties with Countries.

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