I posted the other day about data visualization tools, but even the best tools can’t save you if you’re clueless about visualization techniques. Most of this stuff isn’t web-specific, but I rant so frequently about this stuff to my classmates that I thought it’d be worthy of a post.
Charts!
Flowing Data recently challenged their readers [...]
I just had an interesting chat with Daniel X. O’Neil, EveryBlock’s People Person, and he confirmed my suspicions…
Two (maybe three) *totally amazing* things happened on chicagotribune.com today.
They silently released a new “(beta test)” feature, an EveryBlock-enabled police blotter. Gaper’s Block got the scoop, from, get this, a tweet by the Tribune’s twitter persona, according to [...]
Tagged Chicago Tribune, Daniel X O'Neil, Digg, EveryBlock, TwitterJournalism.co.uk sez:
A Page 3 girl widget for RSS feeds, launched by The Sun on Friday, has beaten previous download figures for Sun apps after only three days, the newspaper has said.
The Keeley Hazell application was built using Adobe Air - a new piece of technology, which allows one widget to be built that will be [...]
TreeHouse Media Project, in their words: “Teaching old scribes new tricks.” Jay Rosen sez “The tone is self help for angry journalists.”
Making a living as a publisher, however, requires entrepreneurial skills that few journalists possess. That is the reason for the TreeHouse Media Project, an effort to provide journalists with the business knowledge and technical [...]
The always outstanding Threat Level sez:
John McCain’s campaign published a side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama’s Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new automated online tracking service called Versionista.
The Friday, July 11 version of the page says: “at great cost our troops have helped reduce violence in some areas of Iraq, but even [...]
Tagged version control, Versionista, visualizationRyan Thornburg has posted a quiz for his readers — an excerpt:
Could you explain how Twitter.com spread like wildfire the rumor of the death of Subway spokesman Jared Fogel? (And why it will be important for every political journalist to monitor the site on Nov. 3?)
Could you use Wikipedia’s revision history to see who edited [...]
Mindy McAdams graded news apps on the iPhone 3G:
Bloomberg LP doesn’t have any pictures or video, but whew! It loads fast and navigates fast. It updated a few times in the 24-hour span from Saturday to Sunday night; I’m betting that will only increase Monday. Note that you can input your own stocks, including the [...]
Tagged Bloomberg, iPhone, Mindy McAdamsSignal vs. Noise sez:
We stalled launching our Job Board for a while because we felt we had bigger fish to fry. Once we got around to it, we couldn’t believe we had waited so long. It was easy to set up, a great resource for our community, and has generated lots of cash for the [...]
I’ve been on the hunt for quick and dirty ways to show off data: visualization tools that are free, pretty, and easy to embed in a story. Here are my finds so far.
Kick-ass embeddable visualizations
Upload your data set to ManyEyes, and you can turn it into all kinds of neat charts and wacky interactive stuff [...]
Are we sinking or sunk? Alfred Hermida writes that, at least in Canada, new research shows that nobody buys the paper for local news:
The main reason for choosing newspapers was out of habit. People were either daily readers or subscribers.
But only 8% said they choose newspapers because they were a source of local news. And [...]
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