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In his June 12, 2012 post titled, “The Rise of Chrome and the Fall of Internet Explorer“, Slate.com’s author, Matthew Yglesias took some data and made the following chart. This chart is supposed to show browser market share over time. Instead, it confused his readers to the level that, out of the 55 comments the …
On June 4th, Stephen Colbert started off his show by discussing a report by the Sunlight Foundation. The report showed that Congress is getting dumber. Ok, that’s not exactly what the report showed, it showed that the speech levels of Congress have been declining since 2005. The Sunlight Foundation’s analysis of Congressional speech included this …
I’m a big fan of the team at SAS that works on the SG (statistical graph) procedures. Their work enables others to tell richly detailed stories by leveraging SG procedures. The team is led by Sanjay Mantange. Just 3 days ago I attended a session at the SAS Global Forum (SASGF12) where Sanjay spoke about …
Bar chart with a log axis, “NEVER”! says the Biz Intel Guru Read More »
Learn how to use SAS to collect Twitter data in 2 easy steps
Charting the Old Spice Guys popularity on Twitter
This post addresses a post on Dashboard Insight’s site titled, “7 Small Business Dashboard Design Dos and Dont’s” Hi Stacey, I read your post with great interest, after all, who wouldn’t like to know the 7 rules of dashboard design? As soon as I got to the 19th word of your post, “colorful” I knew …
Thoughts on "7 Rules for Dashboard Design" post on Dashboard Insight Read More »
TinkerPlots is data exploration software aimed at kids, the beautiful thing about it is that it’s great for adults too. The creators of this tool have designed the software in such a way that it gets out of your way, and encourages you to explore data, not fight with the interface.
See how bad pie charts and faulty analytics lands NYTimes blogger Nick Bilton in hot water with best selling author Seth Godin and The Business Intelligence Guru.
Education Pays! p Fact: High school dropouts are three times more likely to be jobless than college graduates. Fact: People with some college make 50% more than high school dropouts. Fact: A college graduate earns almost twice as much as a high school graduate. Click here to download this post as a pdf.
Of all the open source developer visualization tool kits I’ve seen so far, the one I stumbled upon today (thanks Moritz Stefaner), named Protovis, seems the most practical and easy to use. Protovis comes from Stanford’s visualization group, with the help of Jeff Heer and Michael Bostock. Below is a screen grab of some of …
Promising New Visualization Developer's Took Kit Read More »
