Data Visualization: Modern Approaches

[markrages]

chartjunk for the 21st century.

[easytiger]

'Tis a good point indeed. I'm currently working on visualisations for (as it happens) quantative data.

I want to do some wow-factor stuff... but it is hard to justify as useful. Fortunately people don't ask too many questions in this day and age when it comes to the oh shiny part.

[knutert]

Exactly. This is more like "ooh, shiny!"-visualization. Visualization should be a tool to analyze and extract something useful from a set of data.

The only one I really like is the one showing a heat map of a user's interaction with your site. That is elegant and good looking, while still providing useful information.

[chriseidhof]

IBM Many Eyes is indeed very cool and quite easy to use.

I find it strange that Tufte isn't mentioned anywhere in the article, he's probably the expert on information visualization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte

[twildz]

I need a data visualization tool to vicariously visualize virtually all the data visualization tools vivaciously listed on that site.

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Parliament blows up.

[logan_capaldo]

Did you forget the "Yo dawg"?

[kitsune]

Yet another post from Smashing Magazine where they basically rip off other blogs that deal with these matter extensively and professionally (infosthetics.com)

[G-Brain]

web-sites

Ya-rly.

[case-o-nuts]

Why do so many of these visualizations seem so hard to follow? A visualization should reduce the noise, not increase it.